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  • SideStreets S3E10 - The Damp Darkness of Paris Gardens
    2025/10/27

    This month, we wade and scramble from the Swan Theatre, where Queen Elizabeth I was dangerously satirized, to Holland's Leaguer, where her successor James I went for a disreputable good time. Then we speculate a bit about what happened to all these edgy amusements.

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    17 分
  • SideStreets S3E9 - From the Clink to the Cardinal's Cap
    2025/09/22

    Come with me in this episode as I make my way through the wildest part of Shakespeare's Bankside. We will meet Winchester Geese, apes on horseback, the first billboards, and rap battles between competing preachers.

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    21 分
  • SideStreets S3E8 - A Walk through Shakespeare's Southwark
    2025/08/26

    Come with me as we brave the crowds and the confusion to visit the neighborhood Shakespeare would have known. There's so much to see that we will need at least two episodes!

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    20 分
  • SideStreets S3E7 - Nothing is to be seen upon the river
    2025/07/16

    Meet Patrick Colquhoun, slave-trader, wartime profiteer, founder of the Thames River Police. As much as anyone, he created modern London.

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    19 分
  • SideStreets S3E6 - Taming the Thames
    2025/06/12

    This episode considers London's changing relationship with the rivers flowing through it, paying particular attention to the attempt to make the Fleet River respectable after the Great Fire.

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    20 分
  • SideStreets S3E5 - The pouihi in New Zealand House
    2025/05/14

    In this episode, we meet another pillar—the magnificent Maori carving rising through the centre of New Zealand House. In a bit of Westminster thick with sculpture, this one puts all the others to shame.

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    18 分
  • SideStreets S3E4 - The Brick Lane Mosque gets a minaret.
    2025/04/17

    We take a walk through the history of Brick Lane, and eventually witness -- and celebrate -- the construction of Banglatown’s jewel, the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid’s minaret.

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    22 分
  • SideStreets S3E3 - A Jamaica Lady
    2025/03/17

    In this episode we meet Anna Hassall, in many ways a typical female entrepreneur of early 18c Jamaica. But Anna, unlike her business partners competitors, ended up in Westminster Abbey. Why?

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    18 分