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BBC Radio 4 is alive to the sound of yodelling

Digby Jones
Lord Jones: voice of UK industry. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Listeners to BBC Radio 4 on Sunday were left confused after an interview with former CBI chief Lord Jones was interrupted by yodelling. As Jones was giving his views on Broadcasting House about the new head of the World Trade Organisation, listeners were treated to the sounds of Wanda Jackson belting out Jesus Put a Yodel in My Soul. The Independent reports that music kicked in after the engine of the car Jones was being interviewed in had to be restarted after the battery went dead. Presenter Paddy O'Connell said: "Apologies if you heard us leave the radio, there has been some kind of glitch and you have heard an orchestra instead of the sweet sounds of our guests." Is this what we can expect when Armageddon really happens – yodelling on the national airwaves? Surely we should have something more Churchillian?

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