BBC London also produces current affairs, features and sports programming for the region including the topical magazine series Inside Out, a 20-minute opt-out during Sunday Politics.

The Breakfast and Drivetime shows feature a wealth of local London news and comment with roving reporters out and about.

Other programmes such as JoAnne Good or Robert Elms include varied speech and music with local news bulletins every half-hour.

This is more than most other BBC local radio stations and reflects London's large number of sporting teams and events.

This meant that sizeable communities which probably deserved dedicated programming of their own – such as Oxford, Luton, Crawley and Medway – were often ill-served by a London-biased programme.

The area created for the BBC London programme to broadcast to now covers a much more tightly-defined area, chiefly Greater London but still including parts of Bedfordshire, Essex, and Hertfordshire in the East of England region and parts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex in the South East England region.

[2] The previous news services for the area, in the old BBC South East region, were variously based in Shepherd's Bush, White City and Elstree in Hertfordshire.