1 00:00:00,483 --> 00:00:12,913 [BRIGGS] Now, well, We’re old friends, Jack and myself. 2 00:00:15,204 --> 00:00:17,289 We met on a street corner. 3 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:22,233 I should warn you 4 00:00:24,685 --> 00:00:27,069 he’ll deny this account. 5 00:00:29,273 --> 00:00:32,103 His story will be different. 6 00:00:38,496 --> 00:00:43,549 So there I was, and I was standing at a street corner. 7 00:00:44,540 --> 00:00:45,928 And this car drew up. 8 00:00:46,210 --> 00:00:48,887 And it was him. 9 00:00:50,270 --> 00:00:53,288 And he asked me the way to Bolsover street. 10 00:00:55,261 --> 00:00:57,238 So I said to him, 11 00:00:57,543 --> 00:01:02,577 But Bolsover street, it's in the middle of an intricate one-way system. 12 00:01:04,501 --> 00:01:08,459 Now, it's a one-way system easy enough to get into. 13 00:01:09,479 --> 00:01:14,018 The only trouble was that, once in, you couldn’t get out. 14 00:01:16,539 --> 00:01:18,119 So I told him 15 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,244 the best thing that he could do, 16 00:01:23,023 --> 00:01:28,870 was to take the first left, and then the first right, 17 00:01:29,505 --> 00:01:32,718 then the second right, and then the third on the left, 18 00:01:32,726 --> 00:01:35,952 and to keep his eye open for a hardware shop, 19 00:01:36,433 --> 00:01:39,673 and then go right round the square, keeping to the inside lane, 20 00:01:39,673 --> 00:01:43,208 and take the second Mews on the right and then stop. 21 00:01:44,802 --> 00:01:47,597 He'll find himself facing a very tall office block, 22 00:01:47,597 --> 00:01:49,347 with a crescent courtyard. 23 00:01:49,948 --> 00:01:52,038 Now he can take advantage of this tower block. 24 00:01:52,471 --> 00:01:55,045 Because he can go round the crescent, 25 00:01:55,479 --> 00:01:59,283 following the arrows, go through two sets of traffic lights 26 00:01:59,283 --> 00:02:03,695 and take the next left indicated by the first green filter he comes across. 27 00:02:05,018 --> 00:02:07,551 He’s got the Post Office Tower in his vision the whole time. 28 00:02:08,518 --> 00:02:11,933 All he’s got to do is to reverse into the underground car park, 29 00:02:11,933 --> 00:02:15,780 change gear, go straight on, and he’ll find himself in Bolsover street: 30 00:02:16,226 --> 00:02:17,458 no trouble at all 31 00:02:18,961 --> 00:02:20,742 I did warn him, 32 00:02:21,668 --> 00:02:23,789 he will still be faced with the problem, 33 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,873 of having found Bolsover street, of losing it. 34 00:02:29,419 --> 00:02:33,666 I told him I knew one or two people 35 00:02:33,666 --> 00:02:37,277 who’d been wandering up and down Bolsover street for years. 36 00:02:38,038 --> 00:02:40,516 Wasted their fucking youth there. 37 00:02:42,722 --> 00:02:45,966 You see, the people of Bolsover street, 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 their faces are grey, 39 00:02:48,264 --> 00:02:51,084 they’re in a state of despair, but nobody pays any attention, you see. 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 All people are worried about is their ill-gotten gains. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I wrote to The Times about it. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Life At A Dead End, l called it. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Went for nothing. 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Anyway, I told him that probably the best thing he could do 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 was to forget the whole idea of getting to Bolsover street. 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I remember saying to him: 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This trip you’ve got in mind, drop it, it could prove fatal. 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But he said he had to deliver a parcel. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Anyway, I took all this trouble with him because he had a nice open face. 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He looked like a man who would always do good to others himself. 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Normally I wouldn’t give a fuck. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I should tell you he’ll deny this account. 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 His story will be different.