While casually reading this obituary for the Earl of Onslow http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...of-Onslow.html my attention was caught by the following paragraph:
"Onslow brought hip hop, acid house and thrash metal to Radio 3, in a series of programmes explaining them. Twice – in 1999 and 2007 – he appeared on Have I Got News for You, holding his own against the resident satirists. But he never fulfilled his ambition of declaiming Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in instalments on Radio 1."
Hmmm, yes, it's as many of us have suspected; ok to inflict pop music on R3 listeners but not ok to inflict a different culture on the 'yoof'
"Onslow brought hip hop, acid house and thrash metal to Radio 3, in a series of programmes explaining them. Twice – in 1999 and 2007 – he appeared on Have I Got News for You, holding his own against the resident satirists. But he never fulfilled his ambition of declaiming Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in instalments on Radio 1."
Hmmm, yes, it's as many of us have suspected; ok to inflict pop music on R3 listeners but not ok to inflict a different culture on the 'yoof'
(I didn't read the memoirs, this was picked out by a revierwer at the time).
Not a townie Bryn - check my profile! Our grouse moors are the result of a particular form of land management which in turn reflects a particular socio-economic construct and set of cultural values. Of course they have great biodiversity value, although the commercial requirements of grouse shooting unfortunately require their owners to do their best to exterminate that last few breeding pairs of hen harriers in the country. Unfortunately the above earls belong to a particular type of conservationist that does not recognise the concepts of "top predator" or "food chain" (other than the one ending in top London restaurants), and which categorises any bird or mammal which competes with their economic interests as "vermin". 
. That said the stroll up from the Snake Inn to 
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