A call to preserve memories of London Financial Times
26.06.09
There aren’t many pictures of my childhood London. To get a glimpse of the world I grew up in, I have to give microscopic attention to the backgrounds of English movies made between 1945 and 1955 in the hope of seeing the ruined South Bank in Hue and Cry or the remains of Wapping in Night and the City . If I’m willing to sit through hours of cockney stereotypes, I might occasionally catch a few metres of library footage shot through the windows of a tram with Sid James’s head in the way. My London is fleeting, mysterious, torn down or buried.London was different up to 1940. In illustrated books, it often seems tranquil and quaint, full of lost churchyards and hidden courts. There were always places where the traffic noise dropped away and you could enjoy a bit of peace. That was before the firestorms blasted the East End into blazing fragments of people and buildings, when so much of that quaint tranquillity became heaps of rubble, tottering walls, fire-blasted windows, cut-aways of people’s private lives, their bathrooms and bedrooms, everything they’d valued, exposed to the hasty curiosity of the survivors.
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05.02.08
He cuts a shambling and eccentric figure in illfitting black clothes with cap askew.
But for the best part of 25 years, Steve Wright has provided the voice and soundtrack to weekday afternoons for tens of millions of BBC radio listeners.
Yet aside from his three-hour Steve Wright In The Afternoon on Radio 2 show, he remains an enigma - even to his closest colleagues.
On air he is full of chat, one-liners and the master of a format he first brought to Radio 1 in the 1980s.
Off air he prefers his own company, living on cheap microwave meals and junk snack.
His one obsession is radio and he studiously listens to other shows, seeking to pick up tips and ideas. One friend recalls bumping into him at London's Paddington station about to board a shuttle train to Heathrow Airport.
"He told me he was off to New York," he remembers. "I asked where his luggage was and he just waved his passport at me. 'I buy essentials like toothbrush, underwear and socks while I'm there and throw them away at the end,' he told me.
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