Tonight on the One Show (7pm BBC, although it’ll inevitably be kept back until 7.29pm) we get to find out whether Birmingham gets to call itself City of Culture in 2013.
The Daily Mail has already called it for Londonderry (you’ll have to excuse the lack of link to that one) but we won’t know for sure until later. Win or not, I think the folks who ran the bid should be applauded for their efforts.
My fave aspect of the whole thing has been the unashamedly promotional posters on the London Underground. Ed Vaizey said of the bid:
I see it on the Tube in London. It is a very entrepreneurial approach to raising the profile of the city across the UK
Which was beautifully put. More of that sort of thing, I say.
Meanwhile, a map’s been drawn up to visualise some of the suggestions that were put forward through the Big Conversation and Talkeoke projects in the run up to the bid: