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The key difference between us and many other countries, I guess, is that our radio is really good. And the key reason for that is the BBC.
Tim Bale"Video, as the 1979 pop song had it, was supposed to have killed the radio star. It has not done so in Britain. Nor, more surprisingly, have podcasts or smartphones. Overall, the country listens to about as much radio as it did 20 years ago: around 1bn hours a week."