Culture's Not for Us?
In the last of three documentaries charting the history of the Third
Programme and Radio 3, Humphrey Carpenter investigates the impact of the 1969 announcement that the Third Programme would be abolished, and examines the changing sound of the programmes. Some of the Third's most famous voices - including
Richard Baker , Cormac Rigby and Tom Crowe - reflect on changing styles behind the microphone. And former controllers including
Harman Grisewood , Stephen Hearst , Ian Mclntyre and John Drummond consider two questions which have provoked much debate over the past 50 years: what is the role of a cultural radio network, and who are its listeners?