94 Read All About It! Fleet Street, London

Neil Oliver: News, Interviews, History · Mar 8, 2022 · 33m

In this episode Neil takes us along one of London’s most celebrated and infamous streets, the place that became a byword for the British Press - Fleet Street. We’re in the midst of the pounding heart of the city with gossip, scandal, exposes and politics ringing in our ears – we’re at St Brides Church on Fleet Street.

Named after the river Fleet upon which it was built. In the C16th Wynkyn de Worde and his printing press set up shop on Fleet Street, and the foundations of a tradition were laid.

In 1702 the capital’s first newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published as the street developed…