In Popular Culture
Malcolm Bradbury's novel The History Man, which was dramatised by the BBC in 1981, contained a reference to Redditch when Flora Beniform, a sociologist, mentioned to the hero Howard Kirk that she was studying an outbreak of troilism in Redditch. It is also mentioned in the John Cooper Clarke song, 'Burnley'.
Rik Mayall's Kevin Turvey — The Man Behind The Green Door was set and filmed in Redditch.
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