Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio 2

Colin Greenwood drops in on Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie on Radio 2 and lets slip that Radiohead hope to play a small show for the programme in the next couple of months, an idea they only started discussing in meetings the day before. In between picking the next record of the week and a cup of suspect BBC tea, they play “Nude”, all Thom Yorke's voice layered up, and while he does it, Colin says, the rest of them try not to get in the way.

The best thing about putting In Rainbows out as a download, for him, was that everyone could hear it and talk about it at the same time, on the radio or at home. Some people paid nothing, but they probably wouldn't have bought it anyway. “It's like throwing open the doors and like just letting some fresh air,” he says.

In their early days a single never went on an album, and they could finish a track on a Monday and have it in the shops by Friday; that speed is what they want back, perhaps with an EP later in the year. He likes fans cutting up Scotch Mist, the film the band put on YouTube on New Year's Eve, and passing round the bits they rate, because that is what everyone did with music growing up.

As he leaves, a soprano in the BBC Symphony Chorus writes in to say she met him at the Barbican on Sunday, where he had come to hear Samuel West narrate a piece by Judith Weir; he did enjoy it.