ABSTRACT
The appointment of William Glock as Controller of Music at the BBC was a stunning surprise – at the time, the record producer and impresario Walter Legge likened it to the thought of Luther becoming Pope. The subsequent appointment of Hans Keller to join the staff of Music Division was also highly controversial: ‘Over my dead body!’ the BBC’s Head of Music Programmes is said to have declared. Over the following decades, the two appointments became no less contentious as they receded into history, and ‘the Glock–Keller regime’ (or ‘the Glock/Keller dodecaphonic nuclear winter’ as Fritz Spiegl once colourfully dubbed it) was soon the stuff of myth. 1
