I’d certainly agree for mainstream pop, although dance music and rap often made by minority groups in France isn’t bad (but is in a kind of French dialect you may struggle with as it isn’t taught in school nor broadcast on the mainstream stations. (I certainly do, my French is very formal as most of the textbooks in my schooldays were written in the 1950s). it wouldn’t get played on daytime radio in FR nor here as it also often contains swearing and both Ofcom and whatever their French equivalent is wouldn’t permit it.. they do have community radio in FR but also onlly recently as both UK and FR completely and utterly fucked up the frequency allocation of the FM band after the war (against a signed European agreement) and it still caused problems until the 1990s (no other nations in the entire world did this. Not even the USA).

Younger people from these nations however speak English as their main language other than their native one and would most likely be listening to the grime show as well 😉

As for the football (a friendly in the Youth league) Ipswich won 2-0 against Leeds – but this info was only updated after her show had finished.

I don’t even follow football much, but am going to ask some people who do about why the local club either cannot or will not get this result to the community radio station whose studios they can see from the the ground, and who work with BBC Suffolk anyway. I can understand ruthless competition for rights over big league matches, but surely every broadcast should share the result of the teenagers’ match at least?