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Earl's Court

Earl's Court

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Sep 11, 2026

Arron MarshallHOST
17:26
Or Big Ben
Gerry McNameeHOST
17:26
... or you can walk to Earls Court.
Gerry McNameeHOST
17:28
Yeah.
Arron MarshallHOST
17:28
Yeah, so we, we had to walk to Earls Court in the r- in the co- in the rain.
Arron MarshallHOST
17:31
I think it's when we lost-
Gerry McNameeHOST
17:32
Yeah
RachelHOST
4:39
Ray of Light topped the charts in 17 countries and debuted at number two in the US Billboard 200.
RachelHOST
4:48
She supported the record and follow-up music with the Drowned World Tour, Madonna's first tour in eight years and it was the first time that I saw Madonna at Earl's Court in London.
RachelHOST
5:01
I look back at this Ray of Light era fondly and I remember during this period from around 97 to 99, indie and pop music was in a really good place.
RachelHOST
5:14
Ray of Light sits alongside records such as Kylie's Impossible Princess, Version 2.0 by Garbage, Neapolis by Simple Minds, The Velvet Rope by Janet Jackson and from the Choir Girl Hotel, by Tori Amos.
Ian La FrenaisGUEST
8:30
And I went off on my own with a ballpoint and a legal pad into...
Ian La FrenaisGUEST
8:34
Courtfield Gardens in Earls Court and wrote something.
Ian La FrenaisGUEST
8:40
And they liked it.
Ian La FrenaisGUEST
8:41
And I wrote something else.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
42:18
It was so dreadfully real.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
42:20
It is now over a year since I last walked in my sleep and woke up with such a shock on the cold pavement of Earl's Court Road where I then lived.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
42:30
I thought I was cured but evidently not.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
42:33
This discovery has rather a disquieting effect upon me.
Fi GloverHOST
4:10
But I agree with you.
Fi GloverHOST
4:11
Neil Diamond was utterly brilliant in concert but caused much ridicule for me when I saw him at Earl's Court about twenty-five years ago when I was only twenty-five, and the average concert goer was probably my age now but seemed so old, uh, as did he at sixty.
Fi GloverHOST
4:26
However, now this is an enormous however, there was one very disconcerting moment when he invited women to come up to his kissing booth, which involved him sitting on the front of the stage snogging women who raced forward.
Fi GloverHOST
4:41
He asked one if she had a partner, and she said he was with her in the audience, to which Neil Diamond announced, "She's ready for you now."
Edwin KlinkenbergHOST
27:33
Sure, yeah.
StuartGUEST
27:33
Which took over from like the Earls Court Motor Show.
Edwin KlinkenbergHOST
27:35
The Top, yeah.
Edwin KlinkenbergHOST
27:36
Then became Top Gear Live.
StuartGUEST
27:52
He's just like, "Look, could you take the car along?"
Edwin KlinkenbergHOST
27:54
[laughs]
StuartGUEST
27:54
I was like, "Okay." So I jumped in the, the C12 S and drove, um, to Earls Court from, from Slough, which is always an interesting drive.
StuartGUEST
28:04
And, um, I [laughs] walked up there and there was the, I think it was the 350Z was at, the new car had come out at the time.
Fern BradyHOST
25:06
that's a shame because I do I feel like the Victoria line is quite respectable whereas if you'd done it on like the the central line oh it'd be fine yeah I wouldn't have wore headphones or the brown one I'd never know Bakerloo Bakerloo I've been in London 15 years and I'm still like brown line brown line Bakerloo or any time I get the Northern line I have that song in my head you'll find love
Alison SpittleHOST
25:33
on the Northern line yes And I always, any time I go on the tube, so I go to Earl's Court.
Alison SpittleHOST
25:39
I went to Earl's Court the other day, and then I had this Morrissey song.
Alison SpittleHOST
25:42
He goes, why do you smile
Fern BradyHOST
25:43
when you think about
Alison SpittleHOST
25:45
Earl's Court? And then he's going to set his song up.
Alison SpittleHOST
25:51
It's Piccadilly Polare.
Alison SpittleHOST
25:52
And he just names out, and he's like, if you're a...
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
38:48
It was so dreadfully real.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
38:51
It is now over a year since I last walked in my sleep and woke up with such a shock on the cold pavement of Earl's Court Road where I then lived.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
39:00
I thought I was cured but evidently not.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
39:03
This discovery has rather a disquieting effect upon me.
Lindsay MendickGUEST
42:44
Yeah, and how the way that, like, for me, that was one of the biggest spectacles as a kid.
Lindsay MendickGUEST
42:48
Everyone was going to, like, where was it? West London, wasn't it? Earl's Court.
Lindsay MendickGUEST
42:55
That was why I knew what Earl's Court was, because we were going to body works.
Lindsay MendickGUEST
42:59
And so within this show, like in the same way of dissecting, I use this sort of language to be able to try and anatomically think about dissecting this relationship.
Lindsay MendickGUEST
43:11
But within the Anatomical Museum, they have all these incredible diagrams of people just fastidiously trying to kind of being obsessed with documenting what was inside our body but they're they are always incredibly artistic because that was one of the best places you know that's what gave funding like still here like you can get a great commission with a church or patron patronage has always been there so there was this like incredibly skilled craftsmanship with this idea of science and then religion as well so This second room for me was a real love letter to these places.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
17:51
Thereafter, she tried several low-paid jobs, including becoming a nanny for a wealthy American couple, a dance instructor, a cleaner, a party hostess, and then a nursery teacher's assistant at the Young England School in Pimlico.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
18:06
As a present on her 18th birthday, Diana's mother bought her a flat at Colhern Court in Earls Court in Kensington in central London, where she lived with three flatmates.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
18:17
These were years of liberation.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
18:20
Diana had found her childhood largely unhappy and unstable, contending with her parents' abusive marriage and then the separation which followed.

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