Will is right about Classic FM and its bleeding chunks, but at least we've got it, and they do some evening progs with complete works. The major issue for me is the incredibly clumsy compression they apply to all their output, pandering, I suppose, to car drivers. It can be very hard listening to Radio 3 in a moving car as the quiet bits get drowned out, but at home Radio 3 wins hands-down for refinement of sound. I don't want to listen to a flute concerto in which the flute is twice as loud as a whole symphony orchestra! I'd take issue with Paul about Radio 3's alleged didacticism. That was the case in the past far more than today. The morning programmes these days are a pleasure, inhabited as they are by unstuffy presenters and with a definite bias toward the more lyrical end of the spectrum. There are still one or two places though... I don't see the two channels as competing with each other. I'm glad we've got 'em both. If you want a good swipe at the Beeb, have a go at the dire Radio 2...