Since its inception London has been built and shaped by people who travelled to the city to make it their home, for work, to work, to take or make an opportunity. London is all things simultaneously; too big, too small, overcrowded, underpopulated, its spaces exploited or wasted. It is a city averaging a populace upwards of 7 million yet it can seem an overwhelming, lonely place. But it is also somewhere that offers cross pollination, ethnicity, difference. By definition, to be a Londoner is to be a crucial cog in a massive multiculture. In this podcast we celebrate anyone who took to the road with a view to getting here.
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Since its inception London has been built and shaped by people who travelled to the city to make it their home, for work, to work, to take or make an opportunity. London is all things simultaneously; too big, too small, overcrowded, underpopulated, its spaces exploited or wasted. It is a city averaging a populace upwards of 7 million yet it can seem an overwhelming, lonely place. But it is also somewhere that offers cross pollination, ethnicity, difference. By definition, to be a Londoner is to be a crucial cog in a massive multiculture. In this podcast we celebrate anyone who took to the road with a view to getting here.
Meet Bridie. She came to London in 1952 to join her husband, whom she'd met on holiday here a year earlier. From her beginnings on Golden Lane in Dublin she flew into Northolt on her wedding day and the newly-weds quickly settled themselves in Brixton. With her husband being one of so many men who came to London to build post-war Britain, they experienced occasions when existence here could be hand to mouth. Listen to her talk about growing up in 1930's Ireland and how poverty levelled everybody she knew. You can also hear about the tragedy she experienced when her husband died, leaving her to raise their 7 year old son alone. But at 96, Bridie is now preparing to be a Great Grandmother and is eager to meet the new arrival.
I came to London
Since its inception London has been built and shaped by people who travelled to the city to make it their home, for work, to work, to take or make an opportunity. London is all things simultaneously; too big, too small, overcrowded, underpopulated, its spaces exploited or wasted. It is a city averaging a populace upwards of 7 million yet it can seem an overwhelming, lonely place. But it is also somewhere that offers cross pollination, ethnicity, difference. By definition, to be a Londoner is to be a crucial cog in a massive multiculture. In this podcast we celebrate anyone who took to the road with a view to getting here.
