Once, on the way back from London, I got a call from a producer to see if I could see him, but I had to explain I was halfway back to Cornwall.
PRODUCER: (confused) Cornwall? Is that, like, a lifestyle choice?
ME: Er, my family moved when I was eight, so not really.
PRODUCER: (confused) Cornwall? Is that, like, a lifestyle choice?
ME: Er, my family moved when I was eight, so not really.
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It's in Greater Manchester, it's two hours from London on the train, it's not like they were moving it to Peterhead.
Why *shouldn't* major institutions* be based in GM, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham or Glasgow?
*such as, say, @rcoanews.bsky.social
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‘Have you *thought* of moving to London?’
But BBC senior types kept forgetting it existed when organising stuff for awards &c
Whether it was regional snobbishness or the anti-SF bias?
"It'd shoot everywhere but London. Probably Bulgaria."
I fear it would just make people sad though.
(Tried it but didn't even last two years)