“It’s your chance…”
The BBC’s You and Yours programme on Radio 4 features an interview with Tessa Jowell MP tomorrow (27.10.09) 1. In preparation, the show’s website is asking listeners to send in questions:
“If you live near an Olympic development – do you see it as a bonus or a curse? Will it give companies across the country opportunities to be part of the building programme and and [sic] create long term local jobs… or will its legacy be no more than a than a summer of sport…”
Once again the hook is around ‘legacy’ and myth/reality but this is being positioned here in terms of a local view. Here the question is being aimed at those on the edge of the developments, those who can see that ‘development’ and place that picture alongside their local experience.
Leaving aside a call-in show’s desire to create a debate, the call is based on those local viewers having a particular perspective. Those quite literally around 2012 – arguably those kept outside (literally by the Fence as well as discursively) – are positioned opposite the woman from the inside.
- Screengrab of http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/coming_up.shtml accessed 26.10.09 ↩
