Charing Cross Road

And yet London, if you know where to look, still remembers the extraordinary battle that made that possible.

The Old Bailey, Villiers Street, the bookshops of Charing Cross Road, the House of Lords.

One city, one book, and a country discovering that the world wasn't going to end because the servants could read it.

Word of the day, unexpurgated.

Very famous face, but the tourists didn't really, Oxford Street was full of people.

Charing Cross Road was full of people.

Piccadilly Circus was full of people.

But they didn't venture inside.

lot of Aussies, you know, even the English women would love us.

And I booked out the Astoria Theatre on Charing Cross Road in the West End district.

Expensive theatre, but I'm cocky.

I've just killed it in Australia.

He was 76.

The second location is his burial place, St. Giles in the Fields, that magnificent old church just off Charing Cross Road.

Think of it as Tottenham Court Road Station's church.

It's right there, just a short walk away.

This was a little while ago.

I was in Foyles on Charing Cross Road and just having a browse, and I spotted your book there.

Did you take a

picture of it?

Yeah

... on Charing Cross Road.

Well, that's where it used to be.

That's still there, yeah.