About Radio Einstein

Now here’s an interesting salvo in the war against stupid: an “unashamedly elitist” broadcaster to be known as Radio Einstein, that will resurrect the spirit of the long-defunct BBC Third Programme and with it the old Reithian mission to edify and inform. Radios Three and Four are dumbing down, we are told, and here are the cultural warriors prepared to put things right: the polemicist Tariq Ali, composer Michael Nyman, playwrights Howard Brenton and John Mortimer, which is impressive because I thought John Mortimer died years ago...And only then do I realise that this call to the intellectual barricades comes from 1999.

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