That's a nice memory. It must have been a great occasion.

Oh, that's excellent. It's so nice.

Good. It clearly had an impact if you can remember the details.

Oh, excellent. That must have been an experience. Lucky you.

I've only been to scientific lectures in the Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre.

Incidentally, I've only been to one concert at the Sydney Opera House and that was the inverse of Wagner's Ring in scale - it was a Chopin piano recital.

And this is Sir Charles Mackerras conducting on the opening night of the Sydney Opera House in 1973 with Birgit Nilsson in selections from Wagner's Götterdämmerung:

youtube.com/watch?v=WWJn...

BBC Radio 3 has been paying tribute to Sir Charles Mackerras all day by playing recordings of him conducting. Now it's playing a recording of Janáček's searing Glagolitic Mass from 2004, and later there will be one of Smetana's Má vlast (including Vltava).

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The booing was entirely inexcusable. Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau had already been played because it's a Wales away game, so there could have been no confusion. The booing was embarrassing for Wales.

I think the Director General or the Head of News should resign for an error like that.

Oh.

I thought I heard that on the 1 p.m. news on Radio 4, but couldn't believe they could broadcast a howler like that, so assumed I had misheard.

Governing is hard, & govts today face huge challenges in a world of 24-hour media, disinformation & polarisation.

But that makes the quality of leadership even more vital.

At some point we have to ask if we're just unlucky or if something's gone wrong with the pipeline.

Otherwise, this is up next