Episode 2: Leytonstone & Leyton -
The North-Eastern frontier
This week’s show comes to you entirely from
Leytonstone & Leyton as Nick Papadimitriou and
John Rogers explore the valley of the Philly Brook –
the buried and forgotten stream that runs beneath
the streets of the London zone that begat Alfred
Hitchcock, London’s short-lived ‘Left Bank’
and the great Panjandum. This is an area sitting
on the north-eastern frontier, within a triangulation
of green spaces - Leyton Marshes, Wanstead Flats
and Epping Forest. This is also a place that by the
mid-1990s had the largest population of artists of
anywhere in Britain. There are field recordings as
Nick and John go in search of the stream and are
joined by local historian David Boote and reading
by Heidi Lapaine with music by Europa 51.
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