The Week In Radio
As anyone who had the pleasure of hearing Charlotte Green
dissolve in a fit of giggles on the Today programme a few weeks ago
will know, radio can be very, very funny - intentionally or
otherwise. I tuned in to BBC Radio 2's When Charles Met Wyclef on
Saturday evening, expecting some hilarious clangers from the meeting
of Charles Hazlewood, the Christ's Hospital- and Oxford-educated
classical music enthusiast, and the Brooklyn-raised hip-hop supremo
Wyclef Jean.
In fact, the hour-long programme turned out to be a joyful jam
session, with Hazlewood unpicking the layers of Jean's chords and
rhythms on a piano while the erstwhile Fugee reminisced about his
early musical ...