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Richard Morrison explores the domestic state of music since the 1951 Festival of Britain and the founding of the Arts Council. A major aspiration of the Festival of Britain was the setting up of festivals around the whole country and Richard asks what has happened to those local music hubs today, talking to Gillian Moore, Stephen Maddock and composers Judith Weir and James MacMillan. Conductor Martyn Brabbins talks about the move of funding away from major organisations, like English National Opera, and Richard also talks to Darren Henley, managing director of Arts Council England, about the overall distribution of music around the country.