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[BRIGGS] Now, well,
We’re old friends, Jack and myself.

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We met on a street corner.

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I should warn you

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he’ll deny this account.

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His story will be different.

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So there I was, and
I was standing at a street corner.

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And this car drew up.

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And it was him.

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And he asked me the way 
to Bolsover street.

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So I said to him,

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But Bolsover street, it's in the middle 
of an intricate one-way system.

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Now, it's a one-way system 
easy enough to get into.

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The only trouble was that, once in, 
you couldn’t get out.

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So I told him

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the best thing that he could do,

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was to take the first left, first right, second right, third on the left,

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keep his eye open for a hardware shop,

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go right round the square, keeping to the inside lane,

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take the second Mews on the right and then stop.

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He will find himself facing a very tall office block,

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with a crescent courtyard.

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He can take advantage of this office block.

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He can go round the crescent, come out the other way,

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follow the arrows, go past two sets of traffic lights

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and take the next left indicated by the first green filter he comes across.

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He’s got the Post Office Tower in his vision the whole time.

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All he’s got to do is to reverse into the underground car park,

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change gear, go straight on,

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and he’ll find himself in Bolsover street with no trouble at all

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I did warn him, though,

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that he’ll still be faced with the problem,

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having found Bolsover street, of losing it.

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I told him I knew one or two people

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who’d been wandering up and down Bolsover street for years.

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They’d wasted their bloody youth there.

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The people who live there, their faces are grey,

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they’re in a state of despair, but nobody pays any attention, you see.

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All people are worried about is their ill-gotten gains.

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I wrote to The Times about it.

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Life At A Dead End, l called it.

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Went for nothing.

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Anyway, I told him that probably the best thing he could do

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was to forget the whole idea of getting to Bolsover street.

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I remember saying to him:

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This trip you’ve got in mind, drop it, it could prove fatal.

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But he said he had to deliver a parcel.

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Anyway, I took all this trouble with him because he had a nice open face.

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He looked like a man who would always do good to others himself.

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Normally I wouldn’t give a fuck.

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I should tell you he’ll deny this account.

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His story will be different.