21 SEPTEMBER 1996, page 15

Minoan Script, But Not Many Listeners

Fifty years of Radio Three: Noel Annan reviews the programme's new history, and recalls the early years NOSTALGIA wells up in the heart of aging intellectuals when the Third......

The Founding Father

Fifty years of Radio Three: E.C. Hodgkin says what it was like to work for the self- educated journalist who started it PREPARATIONS for an 'arts pro- gramme' had been going on......