'The River Runs East' is a series of interviews with 3 generations of the same family with both an historic and contemporary relationship with the London Docklands. 

Over the  years the docks have ridden the ebb and flow of the social and economic tides that have swept the country with the docks  being the premier trading hub of an old and famous state, a place of decline as the industries that once made the docks rich, as well as its people, left to find pastures new and then finally returning as a symbol of commercialism as a center of the worlds banking trade.' 

The River Runs East' is a piece that hopes to explore these at once scattered and unified facets of the docks through a prism of  something we can all relate to as being both scattered and unified, family .

Oli Yellop

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