The Flower of Gloster1967

Liz Doherty:
Why does Birmingham have more canals than Lancashire does?

: To answer it you'd really need to look at a map of England

Ann Robertson:
We've got one - a map of the canals, in fact.

: Now look here: if you join Manchester to London and Yorkshire to Bristol, you get a sort of cross - and what's at the centre of the cross?

Themselves:
Birmingham

: Right... by Birmingham you can get from anywhere to anywhere else by canal; it's a bit like Crewe on the railways, it's a great big junction.