Radio head: Hear & Now Fifty

In Radio 3's excellent series, 50 figures from the art world talk about a piece of music composed between 1950 and 2000Silence is a scary prospect on radio, usually meaning a technical hitch or a speaker who's lost their way in a thought or sentence. On Sunday night, however, Radio 3 embraced silence, at least for two minutes and 52 seconds. It was part of the excellent Hear & Now Fifty series, which invites 50 figures from the art world to talk about a piece of music composed between 1950 and 2...

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