Radio review: Counterpoint

The pressure was killing the contestants in the final of Counterpoint – nobody wants to end up in Private Eye's Dumb BritainIt was the final of Counterpoint (Radio 4), the sadistically difficult music quiz. I was about to say "Total Wipeout it ain't", but actually, that's what it is: Total Wipeout for music pedants. They watch from a distance, think "that doesn't look too hard", not realising that it would be functionally impossible to be good at this. You couldn't unite in one human conscious...

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