Music by Brahms (Clarinet Quintet), ZZ Top (Sharp Dressed Man) and Steven Faux with the composer Hugh Wood, the sculptor Manfred Sihle-Wissel, Wolfgang Sandberger, Cord Garben, image consultant Pat Henshaw, Keith Flett of the Beard Liberation Front and Brian Perkins
'He [Mark Thompson, chief executive of Channel 4] was tired, he said, of things like beard features on Radio 3' - Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph
First broadcast on 6th March 2004 BBC Radio 3 Produced by Alan Hall
