Abstract
know that it has recently changed its character. Formerly, it played serious music. Presently, pieces of serious music are interspersed with extended discussions of why the music is so fine and remarkable, together with occasional excursions into what its composers liked to eat for dinner. According to critics, this represents the 'dumbing-down' of Radio 3. Nor, at least for some of the critics, is it the quality of the discussion that is at the heart of the matter. Rather it is an inchoate sense that discussion must inevitably fail to convey what it is about the music that is fine and remarkable, a sense occasionally expressed by the question: why don't they just play the stuff? It is a matter of great sociological interest that people who have an intense respect for something, especially perhaps some social or cultural thing, often feel that to speak about it threatens to demean and
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