Nations Of The Cross [Archive On 4]

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01Arrivals And Departures2009011720090119 (R4)Alan Dein hears true stories from those who live around London's King's Cross station.

Millions of us have passed through it but few of know anything about the turbulent lives and the history that is crammed in around London's King's Cross. Today it is being changed beyond recognition by massive redevelopment. For the past three years, Alan Dein and a team of oral historians have been capturing the voices of those who remember a King's Cross already receding before the bulldozers arrived.

The area was already changing before the bulldozers arrived.

02End Of The Line2009012420090126 (R4)Alan Dein hears true stories from those who live around London's King's Cross station.

Long before the railways, King's Cross was an area known for licentiousness, poverty and despair. But once it became one of the capital's transport hubs it increasingly attracted the lost, the lonely and those with nowhere else to go.

Once it became a transport hub, King's Cross attracted those with nowhere else to go.