London

00:00:27 NARRATOR: It is a journey to the end of the world.

00:03:46 and Baudelaire, who translated Edgar Allan Poe.

00:06:53 and about the library, all of which will be under threat...

00:09:54 against Londoners' lingering desire for the freedoms of city life.

00:13:28 the novel that established the genre of English Gothic fiction.

00:16:44 We remembered what we used to think of as the future:

00:19:39 three opinion polls gave Labour a conclusive lead.

00:22:41 a grinning stranger told him that in the 18th century...

00:25:17 There would be more road schemes. Hospitals would close.

00:28:59 he found that the number was a public telephone in a street in Cricklewood...

00:32:47 He'd tell me about the passengers of the SS Empire Windrush.

00:36:30 on the Isle of Dogs had been taken into administration.

00:39:56 He told me how much he admired the design of the Routemaster buses...

00:42:16 though there have been experiments with nylon.

00:45:48 Here, you would fail to detect the least trace of any monument of superstition.

00:49:30 seemed to have stalled, if only temporarily...

00:53:03 and found instead, shipwreck...

00:56:40 He told me that Rimbaud in particular...

00:59:17 [Train approaching]

01:01:32 It was a few days after the collapse of the final attempts to prop up the pound...

01:04:43 As we moved away from the main thoroughfares...

01:07:38 "The principle of exclusivity or fear of the mob...

01:10:29 She invited us to spend the evening with her family celebrating Diwali.

01:17:13 Robinson told me that his work was nearly over.