I would be delighted if the Daily Telegraph’s respected radio critic Gillian Reynolds could throw her considerable weight around in protest at her newspaper’s crappy listings service. (And when I say ‘weight’, of course, I refer to her influence and not her physical bulk.) Twice in recent weeks (though probably on other occasions that I haven’t noticed) the newspaper has told us nothing at all about Radio 3’s evening concert, the most important programme of the day for many people.

The bald words “Radio 3 in Concert” were all it printed on July 7 concerning a slot of more than five hours in the station’s evening schedule, beginning at 5.30pm.

I had to go to The Times to discover that this was in fact a full-length broadcast of Opera North’s hugely acclaimed production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, recorded a couple of weeks before at Leeds Town Hall.

It was the same on Tuesday of last week, when again the Telegraph listing read simply: “Radio 3 in Concert.” The Times, by contrast, devoted 117 words to the programme, for this was another important radio occasion.

The 80th birthday of the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle was being celebrated with a performance of his opera Gawain recorded at the Barbican Hall in May.

On the same day, incidentally, the Telegraph devoted 12 lines of its listings to give the complete running order for Classic FM’s The Full Works Concert, which of course isn’t really a concert at all, consisting as it does of a succession of tracks played from CDs.

What is going on?