Piers Plowright was a generous collaborator and a genial presence in a radio studio. He gave me unique opportunities to make speech and music features, and many other writers must owe their radio careers to him and his colleague John Theocharis. Together they constituted BBC Radio 3 Features, until John Birt’s Producer Choice accounting reforms of the early 1990s did away with … producer choice.
With the closure of the department Piers transferred to Radio 4, and that was the end of an era and a genre.
