BBC Salford. Flickr/Mike Heneghan. Some rights reserved.Imagine this scenario if you will. You have just arrived in Kettering, Tonypandy or any other often forgotten part of the UK. As an alien arriving from a foreign land, you flag down a taxi and get in. The first thing you notice is that the voices on the radio are not the same as that of your taxi driver.
These are national radio stations. Probably broadcast from somewhere important, somewhere far away. Furthermore, almost every news story refers to this mystical place where everything happens. Your driver informs you that local programmes stop after 10 am, all radio shows come from London at this time in the day.
Even activities you were sure happened in other places seem to only occur in London. It’s incredible how many TV programmes are set in London, often for no other discernible reason than the fact that most of the people that make TV live there. British people have become mostly blind to this tendency. It takes an outsider to highlight the absurdity of the current situation.
