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Book of the Week - Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire - The Triangle

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Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the chequered history and inhabitants of Hackney in East London and his own life there. How Jayne Mansfield came to Hackney - together with half the world's paparazzi - and the philosophy of arch-criminal Tony Lambrianou, stout defender of the Kray brothers.