This is London: Life and Death in the World City
Written by Ben Judah
Narrated by Joe Jameson
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This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch doctors and sex workers.
This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.
This is London as you've never seen it before.
Ben Judah
Ben Judah is an author and journalist. He has reported from across Europe with his writing on politics and society featuring widely, including in The Sunday Times, The Financial Times and Foreign Policy. His first book, Fragile Empire, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. His second book, This is London, published by Picador, was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016 and for the 2019 Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage.
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