Or is it the BBC’s insidious anti-London bias? Whatever the reason,”The People’s Songs”, Radio 2’s otherwise excellent series, which finished last night, has had a distinct lack of Southern accents. The series documents post-war British history with popular songs and the attendant memories of ordinary Britons. Considering London and the South East has the UK’s biggest population density and has made the greatest contribution to popular music, its people have been shamefully under-represented. There was a token episode about “Swinging London” but more typically it was people from the regions droning on about The Smiths or the Wigan Casino. It’s as though a regional accent somehow makes a story more “real”. Yet there are few things more “real” than the London depicted in this bleak but beautiful “People’s Song”.
Is it because Stuart Maconie is a professional Northerner?

- Boy George on...21st Feb 2016
- It's official...20th Feb 2016
- Catch him whi...19th Feb 2016
- Guess who I s...18th Feb 2016
- Ski-ing in th...16th Feb 2016
- Valentine's D...14th Feb 2016
- About time too.13th Feb 2016
- Council estat...12th Feb 2016
- The great thi...11th Feb 2016
- So last centu...8th Feb 2016
- And Suddenly ...6th Feb 2016
- Happy Birthda...5th Feb 2016
- Lord Lucan's ...4th Feb 2016
- One of life's...3rd Feb 2016
- John Lydon at...1st Feb 2016 prev next