We go to the places mentioned and see if descriptions are accurate, journey-times credible, dates and days all in order. There follows learned and lager-fuelled conversations about the history of London porn shops, the right or wrong way to take a train to Greenwich, and the enthusiasm of late-Victorian anarchists free-thinkers – and Bismarck – for lager itself.Įach month we road-test a work of fiction that appears to be curiously specific about dates and locations. Tim is in a disputatious mood, questioning pretty much all the dates in the book and the siting of Verloc’s dirty bookshop on the edge of Leicester Square. Lloyd gets very excited about finding signs of 1880s (or is it 1890s?) London about 15-20 feet below street level (hidden under a grille in the middle of the Charing Cross).
THE SECRET AGENTS CLUB PLUS
It’s a world of foreign agents, mysterious assassinations, international tensions and suspicious Russian intrigue – so nothing like the world today, right? Our route through London takes in foreign embassies in Knightsbridge, dodgy book shops in Soho, underground beer halls on the Strand, plus the wide green spaces of Greenwich Park.
In this, the 5th CSB podcast, Lloyd and Tim sink into the murky and topographically challenging world of Joseph Conrad’s imagined London, as described in the classic 1907 novel ‘The Secret Agent’. Secret Agent Society (SAS) is a small group multi-component program that up-skills and empowers not only children with social and emotional challenges.
Curiously Specific Book Club Podcast 5: The Secret Agent.
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