Fleet Street
About Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a street in London, England. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary of the cities of London and Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was named.
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There's a pub on Fleet Street from which you can see St Paul's Cathedral, and when they tried to build the building, they were told they weren't allowed to impose on the views.
from No Such Thing As The Pamplona Guinea Pig Run, 2015-07-10 at 00:11:48 · read transcript
Other times Fleet Street came up
I'm afraid you won't live long and prosper. I like there are lots of things that are sort of concealed in newspapers, aren't there? Lots of kind of within Fleet Street jokes. Often they happen when there's a bit of a disagreement between the journalists who are writing their stuff and the owners of a newspaper, and often those journalists don't like those owners. In 2001, for instance, Stephen Pollard was sacked from the express, and the express had recently been taken over by a guy called Richard Desmond.
No Such Thing As The Jam Of Entertainment, 2024-12-19 · listen
They were constantly going on strike. They were extremely well paid, and Murdoch wanted to smash the unions. He had an entirely new newspaper printing plant set up in Wapping, outside Fleet Street, set up all the computers there in secret, and then, bang, overnight, moved there, and moved The Times there. Yeah. A stroke took away the power of the printing unions, which has not been the same since.
219: No Such Thing As Jeremiah Wingdings, 2018-06-01 · listen
So do you want to hear some facts from the Beano WhatsApp group? The Beano offices in London are on Fleet Street, and it is where people believe that Sweeney Todd was supposedly had his barbershop. So they get loads of tours of people who want to see the kind of dodgy murdery parts of London always go to the Beano offices and have a look around.
324: No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2, 2020-06-05 · listen
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