● THE CRITIC’S CLAWS, ever sharp, have drawn blood! Clear out the clowns at Radio 3, this column urged last month, and within hours Alan Davey, the station’s controller, had fallen on his sword. Now the search has begun for a successor who may begin the long, arduous process of restoration.
Davey is not a clown, but his heart was never in it. Unlike his predecessors, men of hard-won experience such as John Drummond, Nicholas Kenyon and Roger Wright, his professional life was not rooted in a
