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The Greatest City Debate

Monday 12 July 2010, 8:30

Steve Bowbrick

Head of Interactive, Radio 3

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The #GreatestCity debate took place this morning at 0900 and hundreds of you ed in here on the blog, on Twitter and on Facebook. Four World Cities squared up for the big fight. Laurie Taylor chaired, four city lovers made the case for their favourites - London, Mumbai, New York and Istanbul - and an audience in the Radio Theatre (in the heart of London, it goes without saying) decided. And the winner was Mumbai.

You can now 'replay' the chat while listening to the programme on the iPlayer.

And once you've listened, please do us a favour and leave a comment on this blog post (using your BBC ) to tell us what you thought of the chat and the programme.

Steve Bowbrick is editor of the Radio 4 blog

Listen to the Greatest Cities Debate at 0900 this morning and to the other programmes from the season on the London: Another Country page.
City Pictures: New York, by Dhilung Kirat (licence); Istanbul, by Tim O'Brien (licence); Mumbai, by Danial Chitnis (licence); London, by Dimitry B (licence) and Cobbles, by Ogoco (licence).

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