World Radio

When I was growing up in the '70s, it seemed that all BBC Radio 3 ever played was Stockhausen, yet you never hear him now. Norman Lebrecht asks composer Robert Saxton whether modernism in the arts gave way to a less demanding minimalism, resulting in classical music fossilized in the 18th century, 'safe' theatre and the 'scary' (now rotting) art of Damian Hirst.