Hoxton Square

Well, I once went to...

There's a restaurant in Hoxton Square.

And one of the things on the menu...

It's not an all-you-can-eat restaurant, but one of the things on the menu is all-you-can-eat lasagna.

So I did work for the British Museum and for Sunhoo and kind of museums and galleries across Hackney in East London, in Shoreditch just before it became fashionable.

So kind of the metalheads days around Hoxton Square and all this stuff.

yeah very fresh in my mind shouldn't be probably because it's a long time ago but remember it well and then from there went into um into working for uh building products companies so developing complex texts and brochures and all different kind of um interesting documents for people like hilti and rockwell and marley attorney and these kind of guys And then, yeah, from that, abridged history, moved to an agency back over in Reading Way, back in Henley.

We came back, my wife and I relocated after we were finding out we were having twins.

[gentle music] Welcome to the autumn edition of the Slightly Foxed podcast, brought to you from Hoxton Square, London.

My name's Rosie Goldsmith and I'm your host, here to guide you and my guests through the titles, authors, and themes of our quarterly book show.

If you're a new listener, welcome, and if you're a regular, then you'll know that we usually focus on one theme or one author in each episode.

The air is thick with damp and tobacco smoke as hundreds gather to hear what has happened across the East End.

Outside, loudspeakers carry the speeches into Hoxton Square, where crowds stand beneath the watchful eyes of the police.

Minnie listens as speaker after speaker recounts the day's events.

Barricades thrown across roads, clashes with police in Lemon Street, and the trampling of makeshift defenses built from whatever people could find.