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Robert Powell, who played Jesus of Nazareth, says BBC bosses must embrace the exodus from London to Salford.
The BBC executives who are refusing to lead their own staff to the corporation’s new headquarters at Media City in Salford have evoked the wrath of Jesus in the shape of Robert Powell.
Robert, one of the city’s most famous sons, says it’s time they shut up and started packing.
He said: “There is an obvious inconvenience, but, in our industry, you go where the work is,
“No one has the right to live in London as the centre of the universe. Soon it won’t be, anyway, once Salford is up and running.”
The star of Holby City, 66, who was a key player in the campaign for Salford to become the BBC’s new northern base, says he doesn’t see, either, why highly paid members of staff should be offered financial incentives to move.
He added: “Property prices in Salford are half what they are in London and the living costs are a fraction: surely, if anything, the reverse should take place, although I am not suggesting anyone should take a pay cut. But more money? Where is the logic in that?”