“The Friends of Radio 3 have launched an all-out assault on the station’s controller Roger Wright and the way he has, since he took on the job six years ago, sought to widen its remit. Classical music, they complain, is being sidelined to make way for a trendy cultural cocktail liberally laced with world music and jazz. Now, they say, the Rubicon has been crossed – in the BBC’s statement of programme policy, released last week, the old maxim that “classical music remains at the heart of the [Radio 3] schedule” has been quietly dropped.”