Disconnected metropolitan bubble of Radio 4

SIR – Since the switch from the Home Service in 1967, I have been a listener to BBC Radio 4. There is still much to commend and enjoy.

However, the drift to pretentious, metropolitan self-indulgence is moving apace. Take this week’s Food Programme. Supposedly about books on food and recipes for Christmas, it was regrettably more concerned with the programme’s participants, their predilections, and, sadly, their disconnect from listeners, for whom London is just “another place”, rather than the centre of the universe.

Lord Blunkett (Lab)

London SW1

On with the earphones and you’re in another world: a cover of Wireless Age from 1925