● HOW THEY LOVE AMERICAN voices on Radio 4. If Start The Week is discussing nuclear physics, Third World debt, or beekeeping, you can be sure some professor from the University of Pough-keepsie will be asked to contribute their two penn’orth.
, which explores what used to be called “the tingle factor”, also manages to dredge up any number of Americans. There are plenty of folk in this country who could talk listeners through a song or a symphony, but the producers like to rope in witnesses from across the programme, some presenters seem to have acquired their grasp of racial politics from Black Lives Matter.