FACTUAL
15 July 2006
Saturday 15 July 2006 10:30-11:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Ian Hislop casts a wary eye over the historical, social and moral landscape of that oft quoted but rarely defined landscape - Middle England.
Arts institutions, performers, directors and critics all have a pretty good idea what will or will not go down well with that audience which is forever 'Middle England'. But is it true that Middle English tastes are intensely conservative, narrow, comfy and unchallenging?
With help from AA.Gill, Lynn Truss and John Carey, Ian travels to Lincoln to gauge the Middle English attitude to the broadening of the mind and the heightening of the spirit.
