What Midsummer Dreaming reveals about the Vitality & Fragility of BBC Radio (opens in new tab)

Jude Rogers salutes an inspired night of radio for this solstice: a vivid reminder of what we stand to lose thanks to BBC cuts and the threat posed by charter renewal What holds me suspended in the air? Is it silence that holds me? Silence that beats everywhere, holding me as if in a cradle? No! Listen, listen, listen with your inner ear.”from Private Dreams, Public Nightmares, BBC’s The Third Programme, 1957 On this Saturday’s summer solstice, go somewhere quiet and tune into Radio 3 between...