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07/07/2010

BBC Radio 4 Extra - There's More to Life Than London

Stuart Cosgrove explains why not everyone wants to live inside the M25.

Stuart Cosgrove asks if Britain is too hung up on the appeal of London. Is it corrosive for the wider society? From July 2010.

Tube fairs. The rattling overcrowded tube itself.  The house prices, the negative equity, the schools, the dirt.  There are plenty of reasons not to live in London, which may be the reason most people in Britain don't.  
 
Stuart Cosgrove (Commissioning Editor for Nations and Regions of Channel 4 until 2015) presents a programme on the joys and challenges of choosing to live and work outside the capital.  

The journalist and broadcaster examines the dark side of Britain's obsessive metrocentrism, the brain-draining draw of the capital, sucking enterprise and energy from the regions and its navel-gazing parochialism, dressed up as cosmopolitanism. 

As the Civil Service and the BBC itself begin to grapple with the challenges of moving key departments outside of the capital this will be a timely look at how and why, despite political and institutional devolution, we still allow London to dominate British life, and what price we pay for the largely unexamined assumption that everything happens in London. 

Producer David Stenhouse

From July 2010.

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