Sunday 14 March 2010

Score: Radio 4, nul points

Trailer for Radio 4’s Book of the Week, Chopin, Prince of the Romantics: “Throughout Europe the rise of the middle class led to the piano being turned into a kind of household altar at which culture was worshipped. And where there was a piano, there were scores of Chopin’s music.”

Except that neither the actor doing the reading, nor presumably the producer or the recording engineer or the tea-lady or the overqualified Polish cleaner mopping the floor, had ever heard of the word “score” in this context. Scores of something means lots of it, right? So, er, “where there was a piano, there were scores of Chopin’s music.”