Proms Plus: London in Fact & Fiction

Arts & Ideas

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Novelists John Lanchester and Diana Evans, both chroniclers of contemporary London, discuss the many and diverse communities and villages that make up the UK capital, exploring the differences between north and south, east and west, the suburbs and the inner city. John Lanchester’s novel Capital, set in London prior to and during the 2008 financial crisis, was dramatised for BBC Television in 2015, while Diana Evans’ most recent novel Ordinary People offers a portrait of contemporary London and modern relationships, framed by Barack Obama’s election victory and the death of Michael Jackson.

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0:08.8	Different paces, different heights.
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0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.7	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:34.6	Hello, I'm Shahid Abari.
0:36.2	Thanks for downloading this edition of the Arts and Ideas podcast,
0:40.0	which is recorded with an audience before one of the concerts in this year's BBC proms.
0:45.1	This is the BBC.
0:50.9	Hello, today I'm going to lead you through the streets of London as we follow in the literary footsteps of tonight's prom led by Hayden and Vaughn Williams' visions of the capital city. London has always been an inspiration for writers, whether it's Bow Bells for Dickens or the sinister streets
1:12.3	of Limehouse for Sax Roma. And tonight, I have with me two writers who have made the city their own.
1:19.1	John Lancaster's State of the Nation novel Capital was received to rave reviews in 2012, and Diana Evans
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