London
In Our Time
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London's Past
All four of us actually do a lot of walking around London, but your books come out of these walks. Do you feel without being a new sense, can you tell us more specifically about London's past as you drift past it in the streets and so on? Yes, I think it begins when you arrive in a new city. The only way to navigate it is to set off on these sort of journeys, in which all you have to go on originally is a kind of mood or emotion. It's as Peter Accroy has said, there are these echoes that come into you. From where I live in Hackney, which should once have been a suburb outside what we really think of
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