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My London Archive

25/02/2012

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Online

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A series of interviews offering an intimate view of a city people have made their home.

We ask a number of people with connections to London to take us somewhere that's special to them and to talk about the city and their relationship with it.

We hand over the microphone to our guests to talk about their London, the bits they love and hate, their memories, and how it's affected their personal story.

We will hear from a variety of people - some of whom were born here, some who have adopted the city, some famous and some not.

In this weeks programme, Stephen Fry takes us on a tour of St James's, in the heart of London, an area associated with exclusive clubs, fine art and fine wines.

Gerald Dickens, the great, great grandson of the author Charles Dickens, takes us to see the site of the Marshalsea prison. Only a wall now remains of the debtors' prison where the father of 12-year-old Charles was imprisoned, and where the writer set one of his great novels Little Dorrit.

And John Bird, founder of the Big Issue magazine - which is sold by the homeless - takes us on a cycle ride from Notting Hill to the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

(Image: Stephen Fry. Credit: Press Association) Show less

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