Kilburn High Road

Coming up in our double bill, "The Tunnel." One weekend, Poppy and a group of friends go to visit one of their houses in the countryside of England, but when someone goes missing and a body is found, Poppy has to find the killer.

And before that, "The Man Who Died Twice." James Carter slams the door to his flat at 1A Princess Road in Maida Vale in Northwest London, and he walks to Kilburn High Road to catch the N98 night bus from outside Anytime Fitness.

He pushes his brown hair across his forehead and rubs his brown eyes to push the last flecks of sleep from his head that linger despite him having just had a shower.

He'd started this job as early morning manager at St. Anne's Hotel four years ago.

That's, that's what gets you through.

And I have to say that having done the Russell Brand stuff, having, um, tried to quit smoking using both Allen Carr and Paul McKenna, so their audio products, the intro of this book as I was walking down Kilburn High Road on Tuesday afternoon had more of an effect on me and got closer to changing my behavior than, uh, any of those other three things in my life.

So I, I think-

Wow

Yeah, so, so, so, yes.

Uh, and I think I needed...

At the time I was walking down Kilburn High Road, I, I, I needed, I think I needed that, and I think the timing-

Yeah

But Ramak said, "No, I have a solution.

What you need is this Iranian sugar we have called nabat," which was available then in Kilburn High Street-

Yes

...

And that's really why I'm running.

About 50 metres away is Kilburn High Road, a busy stretch of north-west London where the everyday and the unexpected sit side by side.

Tell me where we are then, Leila.

We're in Kilburn High Street.