I was listening to Radio 3 just before getting into my bath. John Shea had announced that he was to play Handel’s Gloria, the “famous one”, and it was just beginning to start when it went off, on both my radios (one in the bedroom, the other in the adjoining bathroom). It wasn’t silence that ensued but a high-pitched squeal. This was followed by a series of bleeping noises. I’d heard someone talk about radio signals being hijacked for naferious means. Was this what was happening? Surely the BBC protects itself against such things? I let it be for a couple of minutes, hoping that John Shea and Handel would return. They didn’t. I switched radios and channels. A mystery.
