Chris Addison

There's a guy called Ruslovets who's – like Schoenberg, he invented his own system for music.

And the Russians basically went, absolutely not.

And sort of –

banished him to Turkmenistan.

Imagine if poor like Shed Seven got sent to a... I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily for Shed Seven.

There are some musicians where you go, fair dues, yeah, I would.

In fact, maybe there are certain parts of the Central Asian steps that should be full of some of the lesser 90s guitar bands.

Yeah, it's sort of a conversation really between me and the people who are producing it as to how we do that.

Because you want to make it make sense, right?

So, but also like a lot of that music is unbelievably inaccessible.

It's what my mother-in-law calls room clearing music.

So you don't want people going, what the fuck is this?

When they turn Radio 3 on, which does happen.

It's finding something that's kind of illustrative that won't scare the horses.

We'll choose five composers and sort of do a version of their story.

And then there's an academic, a brilliant academic who I'll get to talk to and ask some questions of.

Well, there's all that kind of Miles Davis where he goes, I've invented a new note.

And you go, I don't think this is a good idea, Miles.

We don't need new notes.

We've got 12 perfectly serviceable notes.