London Street Cries
The capital's voices heard from Henry Mayhew's Victorian oral history London Labour and the London Poor and from the present day
London Street Cries - Episode 1
The voices of those living rough then and now, describing the hardship and risks of living on the streets of London.
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London Street Cries - Episode 2
Stories from London street sellers and market traders, both from Victorian times and the present day.
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London Street Cries - Episode 3
Stories from sex workers who ply their trade in modern London, and dramatised testimony from Victorian prostitutes.
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London Street Cries - Episode 4
Stories from present day street cleaners and recycling operatives, a modern mudlark, and 19th-century scavengers.
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London Street Cries - Episode 5
The raucous and bawdy Penny Gaff theatres of the 1850s compared with a present day London hen night, featuring contributions from male strippers.
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