Video Interview with Dan Cruikshank on the Great Fire of London in 1666

Описание: We’ve recently passed 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. Thank you to you all! By way of thanks, here is something a little different from us today. Here you can watch Peter talking to the much-loved broadcaster, writer and Londoner Dan Cruickshank about one of the most fascinating moments in English history.

On Sunday 2 September 1666, between one and two in the morning, a baker called Thomas Farriner woke to find his house on Pudding Lane, London, thick with smoke. He found that the oven in his bakehouse had not been raked out properly the night before, and now his lower storey was on fire.

So began one of the most infamous events in English history: the Great Fire of London. In this conversation Dan Cruickshank guides us through those dramatic days, with a little bit of help from Samuel Pepys’s Diary.

As ever, much, much more about this episode is to be found at our website tttpodcast.com.

Show notes

Scene One: Sunday 2 September. Early morning. “Some of our mayds sitting up late last night to get things … Jane called us up about three in the morning.”

Scene Two: Wednesday 5 September 1666. Early morning. “but, Lord! what sad sight it was by moone-light to see, the whole City almost on fire”

Scene Three: Five AM. Friday 7th September 1666: ‘… and, blessed be God! find all well, and by water to Paul’s Wharfe.’

Memento: Some of Pepys’s Parmesan cheese

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Presenter: Peter Moore

Guest: Dan Cruickshank