Russell Square
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Oct 7, 2026
Nick FerrariHOST
Instead, there have been requests not just from senior politicians, but senior police officers as well.
Nick FerrariHOST
And now we learn that students planning to join that march, but will they face arrest if they wear masks? The plan is they will march from King's College London, which is in the Strand, to University College London, which is near Russell Square.
Nick FerrariHOST
Not actually that long a march, in truth.
Nick FerrariHOST
The Met Police have issued restrictions and told protesters they face arrest if these are breached.
John TusaHOST
Yeah.
Janet BakerGUEST
So I came to London, and for s- for six months I stayed at the hostel in, in Russell Square.
Janet BakerGUEST
And after that I found that the le- the lessons I had been given from the little piece of paper that, um, uh, Ilsa had given me, I went to her straightaway.
Janet BakerGUEST
And again, lucky, I, I suppose I'm using the word lucky a lot, but it's true.
Dan HoffmanGUEST
Remember, uh, that Al-Qaeda blew up our embassies in Africa and tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, uh, the, the USS Cole in, in 2000.
Dan HoffmanGUEST
Um, and m- multitude of other attempted attacks against us, Russell Square bombing in the UK, 2005.
Dan HoffmanGUEST
I mean, it's just a continuum of terrorist attacks against us.
Dan HoffmanGUEST
And I used to say at CIA, "I'm sorry we have to be overseas detecting these threats with human source penetrations to tell us where the bad guys are and what they're plotting, but we kind of have to do it until terrorism is somehow eradicated, and that's over to the locals to figure that out.
Claire AshleyGUEST
Yeah, you can go and tour the building.
Claire AshleyGUEST
So it's in an old horse hospital in Russell Square.
Claire AshleyGUEST
It's a really cool building.
Claire AshleyGUEST
There's no stairs, you just go down a cobbled ramp to get to the, to the offices.
speaker_1VOICE_ACTOR
But I want to say first of all that though I'm not a rich man, my people have been at Riding Thorpe for a matter of five centuries, and there is no better-known family in the county of Norfolk.
speaker_1VOICE_ACTOR
Last year I came up to London for the Jubilee, and I stopped at a boarding house in Russell Square because Parker, the vicar of our parish, was staying in it.
speaker_1VOICE_ACTOR
There was an American young lady there.
speaker_1VOICE_ACTOR
Patrick was the name.
Mike BubbinsHOST
There's loads of these little facts in it.
Mike BubbinsHOST
Leary Constantine, who's the cricketer we mentioned earlier, fought a famous legal case in 1943 against the Imperial Hotel in London, Russell Square, over its racist treatment of him.
Mike BubbinsHOST
In London to play cricket for the British Dominions representative team, he was thrown out of the hotel because of his colour.
Mike BubbinsHOST
A few years earlier, he had reserved a hotel in Brighton but was turned away when the receptionist saw him.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All we're being told is that it's a major incident and the whole of the London Underground is now shut.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're now also hearing that there have been further incidents at Russell Square.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, British Transport Police are saying that a power surge caused the incidents, some of which caused explosions.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Excuse me, please.
ClaireHOST
Little Lionel.
LionelHOST
And I used to get driven from Russell Square to the Egyptian embassy, which I think was in, like, the millionaires' row in near Notting Hill-
ClaireHOST
Mm
LionelHOST
... or no, in Kensington Gardens.
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