94 Read All About It! Fleet Street, London
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Neil takes us along one of London’s most celebrated and infamous streets, the place that became a byword for the British Press - Fleet Street. We’re in the midst of the pounding heart of the city with gossip, scandal, exposes and politics ringing in our ears – we’re at St Brides Church on Fleet Street.
Named after the river Fleet upon which it was built. In the C16th Wynkyn de Worde and his printing press set up shop on Fleet Street, and the foundations of a tradition were laid.
In 1702 the capital’s first newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published as the street developed from printing books to newspapers. As the penny-press’s popularity skyrocketed a torrent of words started flowing down Fleet Street as the nation’s obsession with news was fed.
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| 0:57.0 | They're a mix of history and comment, hopefully thought-provoking, plenty to get your teeth into. That's what we aim for anyway. Right now it's |
| 1:06.4 | time for this week's podcast, my love letter to the British Isles, as we step into the |
| 1:11.8 | torrent of words flowing along Fleet Street. |
| 1:15.2 | Kue the music. Where you have those places that you think will always be there, places that you think are permanent, |
| 1:31.0 | it's worth paying attention to them because the chances are one day you'll close your eyes or you'll turn around and the next time you look gone. |
| 1:40.0 | In this episode we follow an ancient river running beneath the Hurley |
| 1:46.3 | Burley of London above. Running underground to join Old Father Thames, the river |
| 1:51.9 | fleet gave its name to the street above which would become a byword for the British press. |
| 1:58.0 | In the 16th century, Vinkin-Davord set up shop here with his printing press and the foundations of a tradition were laid. |
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