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Maybe Liverpool isn't real, maybe we just dreamed it

Episode 1 of 10

Zing Tsjeng wonders what it means to be British. She travels around the UK to find out.

Journalist Zing Tsjeng is on a journey around the UK trying to figure out what being British is all about. After living in the UK half her life, she wants to decide whether to trade her Singaporean passport for a British one. It's a tough dilemma as Singapore doesn't allow dual nationality and swapping the citizenship of the country she was raised in, for the one she now calls home now, feels like a big deal. Can talking to people from all over the country about their national and local identity help her decide whether to take the plunge and become British? Zing starts her great British adventure in Liverpool.

She meets arts writer Laura Brown. Zing's heard that some Liverpudlians feel so strongly tied to the city that they say they're 'Scouse not English', and she's hoping Laura - who lives and breathes Liverpool - can help her get her head around this. Laura explains how Liverpool's rich and sometimes painful history, its underground arts scene - even its geography and weather - have shaped the city's sense of itself as defiantly different from the rest of the UK.

18 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Jul 2020 21:32GMT

Broadcasts

  • Sat 18 Jul 2020 08:32GMT
  • Sun 19 Jul 2020 03:32GMT
  • Sun 19 Jul 2020 18:32GMT
  • Sun 19 Jul 2020 21:32GMT

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