Out-of-tune BBC

IT’S not just the choice of music on radio 3, excluding the main classical master composers, but the choice of guests interviewed is exclusively socially and politically Left-wing.

We’ve had endless human rights activists, black campaigners, transgender activists, African rights officials and a large number of Islamists (who generally don’t have much to do with serious music).

I wrote to radio 3 to suggest that since they virtually ignored the 150th anniversary of edward elgar’s birth, the BBC could make amends in this, his 160th anniversary year. The

response was predictable, nothing had changed, and elgar’s music still offends minority groups, is reminiscent of imperialism and exemplifies privilege ‘likely to offend those on low incomes’.

elgar came from very humble beginnings, was entirely selftaught, was shunned by the musical establishment and yet produced music that inspires and whose originality still astounds listeners today.

he’s quite rightly our National Composer and it illbecomes the unaccountable BBC, which gets our money regardless of whether it obeys its charter or not, to airbrush elgar from the airwaves. R. D. WOLSTENHOLME,

Penrith, Cumbria.