Presented by Peter Dodds. Broadcast 24/08/2025 4-5pm.  Repeated 29/08/2025 3-4pm

This week in Illuminations, Peter Dodds takes a look at all things risible in classical music, and discovers just how complex and deadly serious comedy in music really is. Or just deadly. From the euphonious Portsmouth Sinfonia to PDQ Bach to Florence Foster Jenkins, you are invited to listen in to this scintillating intellectual thesis on taking the musical mickey.