At 1.15 am on 17 April 1941 a German bomb landed on the air raid shelter at 50/52 The Cut, just across the road from where I now live. The Young Vic theatre now stands on the site.

Kit Murray remembers what happened:

This is a short excerpt from the fourth and final part of A Story of Waterloo, a tape slide show that I'm restoring.

Walklings Cake Shop

Mayor of London Boris Johnson answering questions from the London Assembly, 10 November 2011. Following a spate of deaths and serious injuries to London cyclists, a campaign is growing to make London streets safer for cycling. 

However, it appears the Mayor thinks that things are fine as they are. 

Mayor of London: Are London's Streets Safe for Cyclists?

Recording from the London launch of The Obree Way, a training manual for cyclists written by former world champion and world record holding cyclist Graeme Obree.

Graeme Obree was in conversation with Jack Thurston, presenter of The Bike Show on Resonance FM on Thursday 19th January 2012.

www.obree.com
www.thebikeshow.net
www.lookmumnohands.com

Graeme Obree at Look Mum No Hands!

Mike Penning MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Roads and Motoring, and Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Regional and Local Transport, Department for Transport.

House of Commons Transport Select Committee hearing, 24 April 2012.

UK Transport Ministers Mike Penning and Norman Baker give evidence on cycle safety

House of Commons Transport Select Committee hearing, 24 April 2012.

Jon Snow, newscaster and cycling advocate
James Harding, Times editor
Josie Dew, author and cycling advocate

Josie Dew, James Harding and Jon Snow give evidence on cycle safety

The Bike Show is a weekly radio show about cycling. It is broadcast in central London on radio art station Resonance 104.4fm. The Bike Show won a London Cycling Award in the ‘best media’ category in 2005. Through the internet it reaches listeners all around the world – there are currently around five thousand subscribers to the podcast.


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