The Fire of London
In Our Time
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The Judgment of God
I think if you think of a sort of a third world city, I think that's what London must have looked like. People are assembled at more fields, open land, the Piazza at Covent Garden. The people go there with their rags and bits and pieces and what they've rescued. They're then fed, and the king appears on horseback to tell them it wasn't the French. He makes an announcement that this is an act of God and that nobody is to blame. But one poor Frenchman actually gets... He gets hung. And probably to our everlasting shame, because he was a simple man who confessed to the fire,. Actually wanted to confess to having some charge
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