Most valued for by whom? How is that measured? By numbers listening/watching? By that reckoning Radio 3 should be scrapped immediately and the Proms abandoned, and Chris Evans should get a lot more airtime. Radio 3 is valued by far fewer people than any other aspect of the BBC output, yet it is, to my mind, something of a cultural oasis in a desert largely consisting of cultural dross. Classic FM, to which I frequently tune, does very nicely thank you. It does it by playing only undemanding music which is often just chunks lifted out of larger works, and the output is peppered with ads. They play the same pieces so often that it's possible to get sick to death of what used to be some of your favourite pieces of music. I don't knock it though. It has its place. As I said, it's healthy that the Beeb is held to account. But there's an awful lot of opportunistic, hypocritical Beeb-knocking going on at the moment, including in this thread. Which is the whole idea. The Tories hate the BBC and want to have themselves as many opportunities as possible to brief against it. As I said, taxpayers/licence fee payers/consumers pay for everything. The licence fee is just one way of paying for stuff. There's plenty going on out there in this big capitalistic world of ours that could usefully undergo a lot more scrutiny as to value for money. Thirty million for Ant and Dec, anyone? ITV thinks so, and you pay for all that advertising that pays Ant and Dec. But you don't notice it because, well, you don't have to hand over money directly for them, do you?