CLASSICAL
Reprieve for BBC Singers is a welcome one
“And that’s what you pay your licence for,” beams Chris Packham in most episodes of BBC Two’s ‘watches’, usually following the careful dissection of an owl pellet or nighttime footage of a beaver eating an apple. As a fan of and its seasonal siblings, I quite agree – I’m more than happy to contribute to the programme’s low-fi pie-charts and superb nature footage, just