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So I down to the water side and there got a boat and saw a lamentable fire, everybody endeavoring to remove their goods,

poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them,

and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stairs by the waterside to another.

And among other things, the poor pigeons were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about

the windows and balconies till some of them burned their wings and fell down.

Those are the words, David, of the great diarist Samuel Pepys.

They are part of his account of what he witnessed in London on the early

hours of Sunday the 2nd of September 1666, the first night of the Great Fire of London.

I'm Sarah Churchwell. Welcome to Journey Through Time. And I'm David Ulishoga, and this is the first

of our two episodes on the Great Fire of London. This week we're going to explore how the fire started

and how it completely ran out of control in that first day. Next week we're going to explore

the final three days of the fire. Those who remember our episode on the Great Storm of

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