Greater London radio

Greater London is England's capital region, encompassing the City of London and the surrounding London boroughs. Its radio audience includes residents, commuters and people visiting for work, study or cultural activity. Broadcasting can address the capital as a whole or concentrate on a neighbourhood, language community or shared interest within its much larger population. News, public transport, arts, sport and community services provide subjects with both citywide and local significance. A programme made in one borough may draw on institutions used by people from several others. Hospital, community and specialist music services reflect those different relationships, giving London's broadcasting a range of audiences and purposes. The capital's cultural variety is heard through languages, musical traditions and contrasting forms of conversation. Contributors can bring experience from their immediate neighbourhood while also following matters affecting the wider city. That combination allows a small local studio and a larger London service to share a geographical setting without having to address listeners in the same way.