I'd Blow Up Queen Square and Start Again ; Paddy Shennan Interviews Roger Phillips: Adopted Scouser: 'Where Our City Leads Others Follow'

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RADIO Merseyside's Roger Phillips, everyone's favourite Mancunian, makes his living from talking AND he has a lot to say - so take it away Rodge, aka devil's advocate and gravelly-voiced champion of the underdog ...

"I did a debate for Radio Three two or three years ago called 'Is Liverpool an English City?' and the conclusion was it's not. We ARE different. I think it's the massive amount of immigration, while Liverpool and the likes of Marseilles and Naples have been classed as 'Cities on the edge' which don't have a hinterland beyond them. I think it makes a difference. You are never travelling THROUGH Liverpool, you are going TO Liverpool.

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I'd Blow Up Queen Square and Start Again ; Paddy Shennan Interviews Roger Phillips: Adopted Scouser: 'Where Our City Leads Others Follow'

"There's a great generosity about Liverpool people which isn't just parochial - and there's a great sympathy which can be seen as being mawkish but isn't. When James Bulger died there were all these flowers laid in Walton and I remember reporters from London saying this was a bit over-sentimenta...

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