Regionful

Yet a close reader can hardly avoid two conclusions: (1) almanac quotations from a regionful of cities could have set the scene with equal effect.

Rather, we are raising a regionful of, well, perps.

This single Yorkshire voice, serving as a synecdoche for a regionful of unemployed, must, in the Listener, retain its claim to authenticity through the written markers of dialect for the BBC to derive the benefit from 'giving' it.