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The Media Village
Charles Dickens spent a great part of his life in what is now an anonymous Bloomsbury rat-run for black cabs called Doughty Street. Nearby is Brownlow Street, probably the name Dickens borrowed for the philanthropist who adopts Oliver Twist. It’s a run of sooty, late Georgian terraces, better known these days as the home of…
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Today in Basra
The Today programme is broadcasting from Basra for the first time. Tony Blair visited Basra on the 29th May 2003. It’s a day that John Humphrys probably remembers – the day Andrew Gilligan had decided to offer up the report that brought BBC journalism into direct conflict with the Government. Humphrys displayed his best and…