The group would, said Aled Jones, require "no introduction to regular listeners of Good Morning Sunday". So he didn't bother to introduce them. Only at the end of Aled's interview did it become clear that his guests on the Radio 2 show had been Blake (pictured), a boy band (as I later learned) firmly occupying the middle territory between classical and pop. Most of them having sung as choirboys, they found each other by means of the Facebook website.

None of the band members was referred to by name in the course of this curiously handled interview. I cannot therefore identify who was responsible for a smug piece of stupidity concerning some of their American fans.

As is presumably deemed necessary on this God-slot programme, Aled asked a question or two about the religious content of Blake's output. One member said this was sometimes found where none existed, citing the instance of Americans believing — silly them! — that the Beach Boys' God Only Knows (which the band has covered) had a Christian dimension.

In fact, if Blake's members were to dig out a copy of the Beach Boys CD of Pet Sounds, they would find these words on the sleeve written by songwriter and singer Brian Wilson: "Just before we did God Only Knows Carl [Wilson, brother] and I had prayer sessions asking the Lord for guidance and maximum love vibes for this crucial single. It was the first time that anyone had ever used the word 'God' in a commercial song . . . at least this is what we were told. During the production of Pet Sounds, I dreamed I had a halo over my head. This might have meant that the angels were watching over Pet Sounds."

While it reached number two in the British charts (and earned the admiration and envy of Paul McCartney), God Only Knows barely figured in the US charts. Perhaps it was thought blasphemous . . .