‘You have to stay tuned to us or you’ll get interrupted by gardening programmes,’ crowed Matt Chorley on Times Radio.
Hours later, there came a tsunami of rolling news. At such moments, the best escape is in timeless culture.
I pounced, on a single day that weekend, on two major radio productions of Reithian promise. On Radio, a dramatic reading of Eliot’s in its centenary year. On Radio 4, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s .
