The delegation led by BPI Chairman Tony Wadsworth and Chief Executive Geoff Taylor told Lyons and his Trust colleagues, head of performance Mark Wakefield and senior adviser performance Stephen Callow, that 6 Music is a perfect example of the BBC's public service mission in action because it provides programming commercial radio does not.

Wadsworth says the BBC has successfully built an outlet for artists young and old that are not being played on Radios 1 and 2. "I'm thinking of ...