Robert Elms in Conversation
6.30pm Thursday 28th November 2019
6.30pm Thursday 28th November 2019
Westminster Arts Library
35 St Martins Street
London
WC2H 7HP
WC2H 7HP
Admission: The Salon is Sold Out
Each ticket includes a 'broadcast' of Hendricks Gin
"London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you’re lost.’
Earlier this year, broadcaster ROBERT ELMS published his memoir London Made Us - a personal intimate panorama of the metropolis, 'a lament for a lost London', 'A love letter to the capital … part memoir, part cultural history'
The book describes how the city has changed beyond all imagining, how London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, still bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis with motorways driven through lost communities, murder miles becoming estate agents’ dreams, accents changing, towers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth.
Robert will be in conversation with another special guest to take us back on a trip through time and place to visit myriad Londons - a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs, a small community declare itself an independent nation and where animals of varying exoticism roamed free through its streets; a place where his great-great-grandfather made the his home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to epoch- and world-changing events.
Each ticket includes a 'broadcast' of Hendricks Gin
Join us for a unique meeting of two of the longest running London cultural events. As the Salon reaches it's 70th Birthday, we are celebrating with a special evening with that most London of Londoners, ROBERT ELMS - plus special guest.
"London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you’re lost.’Earlier this year, broadcaster ROBERT ELMS published his memoir London Made Us - a personal intimate panorama of the metropolis, 'a lament for a lost London', 'A love letter to the capital … part memoir, part cultural history'
The book describes how the city has changed beyond all imagining, how London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, still bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis with motorways driven through lost communities, murder miles becoming estate agents’ dreams, accents changing, towers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth.
Robert will be in conversation with another special guest to take us back on a trip through time and place to visit myriad Londons - a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs, a small community declare itself an independent nation and where animals of varying exoticism roamed free through its streets; a place where his great-great-grandfather made the his home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to epoch- and world-changing events.
LONDON MADE US:
"a marvellously detailed and wonderfully evocative memoir of London trembling on the border of extinction. Our tears and dreams are made of this” PETER ACKROYD
“The reading of this book should be made a compulsory addition to the curriculum of every state and private school in the capital”
NORMAN JAY MBE
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ROBERT ELMS is a broadcaster and writer, well-loved for his eponymous radio show on BBC Radio London. He is a Londoner through and through, growing up in West London and living in the city for most of his life.
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ROBERT ELMS is a broadcaster and writer, well-loved for his eponymous radio show on BBC Radio London. He is a Londoner through and through, growing up in West London and living in the city for most of his life.
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SALON FOR THE CITY is an ANTIQUE BEAT production