West Kensington
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Nov 2, 2026
Inspector CaswellVOICE_ACTOR
Yes, that.
Peter TroyNARRATOR
Large areas of plate glass windows were smashed by machine gun bullets last night when mobsters shut up a luxury store in West Kensington.
Peter TroyNARRATOR
You know, this sort of trouble is foreign to London,
Inspector CaswellVOICE_ACTOR
Peter.
Peter TroyNARRATOR
Uh, is she a music lover, Rick? Come again? Well, does she go for the staccato beat? You know, like the ragged rhythm of a Thompson submachine gun, maybe.
Peter TroyNARRATOR
I don't know what you're talking about.
Peter TroyNARRATOR
Talking about the 37 bullets they picked up at the West Kensington store the other night, buddy.
Peter TroyNARRATOR
So what's
Hanif KureishiGUEST
And I thought, this is the life.
Hanif KureishiGUEST
And then we went back to West Kensington.
Elizabeth DayHOST
And then, a few years after that, you try your hand at directing.
Hanif KureishiGUEST
Yeah.
Joshua MilesHOST
Ireland had used a rope from his homemade murder kit to strangle Perry.
Joshua MilesHOST
Three days after his murder, the police were called to his apartment in West Kensington by concerned neighbors.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The police do not link the killing of an American businessman in Kensington with the killing of a librarian or the killing of a director and choreographer.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, the clear links between the cases here are all of these victims are gay men All of these victims have engaged in sadomasochistic sex and that should be sending alarm bells ringing, but it doesn't.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
But as a matter of fact, the rather rotten time which she was having was not such a very rotten one.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Reducing it to its simplest terms and forgetting for the moment that she was an extraordinarily beautiful girl, which his lordship found it impossible to do, all that it amounted to was that her mother, having but a small income and existence in the West Kensington flat being consequently a trifle dull for one with a taste for the luxuries of life, Claire had gone on the stage.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
By birth, she belonged to a class of which the female members are seldom called upon to earn money at all.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
And that was one count of her grievance against fate.
21 MINS LATER
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
She was furious.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
What right had Lord Dawlish to look down his nose and murmur, "Noblesse oblige," when she asked him a question, as if she had suggested that he should commit some crime? It was the patronizing way he said it that infuriated her, as if he were a superior being of some kind, governed by codes which she could not be expected to understand.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Everybody nowadays did the sort of thing she suggested, so what was the good of looking shocked and saying, "Noblesse oblige"? The omnibus rolled on towards West Kensington.
Tim BulkeleyNARRATOR
Claire hated the place with the bitter hate of one who has read society novels and yearned for Grosvenor Square and butlers and a general atmosphere of soft cushions and pink-shaded lights and maids to do one's hair.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
She would have to exert herself still further for the intended recipient of this offering, turn her out for her marriage with more than that drapery.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
She would go up to town, in short, to dress Maggie, and their father, in lodgings at West Kensington, would stretch a point and take them in.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
He, to do him justice, never reproached her with profitable devotions.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
So far as they existed, he consciously profited by them.
16 MINS LATER
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James Chapter seven As soon as her sister was married, she went down to Mrs. Gareth at Rix, a promise to this effect having been promptly exacted and given, and her inner vision was much more fixed on the alterations there, complete now as she understood, than on the success of her plotting and pinching for Maggie's happiness.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Her imagination in the interval had indeed had plenty to do and numerous scenes to visit.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
For when, on the summons just mentioned, it had taken a flight from West Kensington to Rix, it had hung but an hour over the terrace of painted pots and then yielded to a current of the upper air that swept it straight off to Poynton and to Waterbath.
Nicholas CliffordNARRATOR
Not a sound had reached her of any supreme clash, and Mrs. Gareth had communicated next to nothing, giving out that, as was easily conceivable, she was too busy, too bitter, and too tired for vain civilities.
Simon LancasterGUEST
You know, you're doing the award.
Simon LancasterGUEST
You know, when I was growing up in a council estate in West Kensington, I never thought that one day I'd be receiving an award like this.
Simon LancasterGUEST
And then you moved to the Astoria and I couldn't have done it without learning from all the amazing people in this room.
Simon LancasterGUEST
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