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Day and night, night and day

THOUSANDS of people around the UK and well beyond, especially over the past year, derive pleasure, comfort and stimulation every weekday from the top-and-tailing on BBC Radio 3 of the morning Breakfast programme and the evening In Tune. The regular presenters for these live broadcast slots are Petroc Trelawny and Sean Rafferty, one a Cornishman, one an Irishman, colleagues and friends who joined the station within months of each other in 1997/98. Both have vivid memories of occupying offices in a remote offshoot of Broadcasting House with sloping garret roofs and ‘a very useful fridge’.

‘It’s like being

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