500 musicians protest cuts on BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 announced elimination of two jazz shows, the long-running experimental music program 'Late Junction' going from three nights to one, and a world music program getting its run time cut in half, after which more than 500 figures from the music world have now signed an open letter, protesting the changes in the schedule. Some of the signees: Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway, Holly Herndon, Peaches, Shirley Collins, Low’s Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, Throbbing Gristle’s Cosey Fanni Tutti, Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Róisín Murphy, Ben Frost, Autechre’s Sean Booth. Guardian published the full letter and all the names.