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Sounds this is London this is b.b.c. Radio London turning Crystal Palace made me laugh he said I made a pact with Charles Dickens if he didn't have to finish the Mystery of Edwin Drood if I don't have to finish Little Dorrit says turning now I never finished a little door it was I mean people were saying it's praises and it's by the kids it can't be a bad book but it was so. Drenched in kind of Victorian Secor in melodrama never quite got that. I can't remember if I ever finished the Ok. There's quite a lot of the star of the not finished and then is off as the read more the months and has some of never even begun to turn of to see is one the never even still to. This is one of my favorite tricks of the moment. It's about swimming trunks and it's buzz erosive a. Phone . Call right. If you. Follow. Me. Closely and. You'll. Yes. And long. As she can costs. Money a long. Fall From come. To come. Cease all. Good fun 07 and. I'm we're about to go to church group about to go to one of London's great churches a church which. I'm sure Dickens would have known very well indeed and it's the church of St John's in Waterloo and I'm joined now by 2 people by Canon Giles God who is the vicar of St John's and by the architect Erik Perry who's been working upon it welcome both of you to b.b.c. Radio London and I thank you let me begin with you Giles give us a bit of the history of the church and also kind of how you see its present they function and the church has been really at the heart of the community since it was built back in 1824 that area was a marsh until about 70750 and then it began to emerge as part of the industrial revolution and there was a special funding stream that put churches in these new towns back in the 19th century so it was built then it served the people of Waterloo right through the ninety's and for those who do not show where we are put give us the hot so we always say it's the church by the Imax Yes So it's opposite opposite Waterloo Station it's right at the heart of London if you can't look that little bit of green in front of you exactly yeah we go to church art and things like that and we're quite close the National Theatre in the South Bank Center and all that so we're very connected to all of those things and I guess historically that would have been a large local resident very working class community it would have been very much so yeah certainly by the end of the 19th century it was pretty pretty much slums Yeah and then the church was bombed in the war and it lost its roof and it was burnt out and it was derelict really until 1950 when the it was rebuilt for the Festival of Britain so it was the kind of the Church of the Festival of Britain we did absolutely yeah we did and it was stunning and choirs came from all over the country to sing there as part of the festival and we've got a wonderful mural which was painted at that time by a man called Hunt's 5 Bush who is a Jewish refugee who came over in the 19 $130.00 s. And found his body painting murals in churches where he's done this fantastic meal which is now falling to bits so part of it is part of a whole plan is to put to restore that and you mention music and music and perform . Has been central to the kind of the work of the church yet completely we we see ourselves as one of London's great musical churches we went home to the south met Sinfonia which is no extra which gives people the training in being part of a professional construct and then they go off and get jobs and full time orchestras we have lots and lots of a mixer and no fresh an orchestra so use us we have choirs we're also we also have something called a Waterloo festival and we reach out very much to kind of local community arts organizations What do you still have a Co a local congregation Yeah very much so over half the congregation walks to church released locally in current street and around the I was going to say because I think people probably forget that there are people still living in very much in the area around there definitely I think we have about 8000 people living there live in the parish we don't have 8000 people coming to church on fortunately but we have come up with the only. Next plan so you're doing some major works of restoration which is where it comes in Eric welcome to the show and this is not the 1st church that you've worked no not at all. Some just over a decade ago we finished the the renewal as it's called of St Martin the fields which included a lot of space underground crypt Yeah that's right yeah and what was your brief on this particular project Well it it 1st of all I think you have to imagine that the church when it was referred Bisht in 151 had his roof put back on and so on was set in a wasteland you know and that's changed so the 1st thing in a way is to make it more accessible to just feel a bit cut off is a job on an island you know when you drive past all psychopaths that you're risk and kind of go boy Yeah so the architect's kind of brief in 1951 was to create a sanctuary with that that that surrounding Depor really obviously the festival Britain site comes up and then so much as. And around the site so that's the 1st thing is to to make it more accessible but also to rework areas in the crypt that have been dormant so to make that also accessible so lift staircases and then to improve the conditions of the nave which is this it's a Greek portico in the front where the big box in the back huge wonderful spaces 11 meters high you know 20 meters wide 30 meters long good acoustics very good but a bit too lively and tends to get a lot of what the acoustic versions called flatter so reflection so a lot to do the improve it and the lighting and much else and give it a give it a really fresh look yeah. I'm a crazy I mean I'm not a religious man but I love churches and I think that anyone who lives in London we're very aware that they tell the story of a city in many ways and I'm always slightly nervous when I see one of the great churches being kind of redone if you like I mean I think of spittle fields for example which is a truly great hoax more church I find a little too bright a little too new and a little this is if they raise the stories a little you know I mean about that. Yes And it's interesting I'm not just saying that one but you know over restore can't you can and actually you know we have a limit on budget that sometimes a good thing. At smart in the fields you could walk in and say what's happened actually because it's quite judicious it's easy to get it wrong and make it make it to Dusty as well you know to get it to kind of get the pattern nation in the wrong way so redecoration is one part of it but it's also mediating from this huge space down to a focus on the stand and dealing with pragmatic things like storage and we've also worked very closely with lots of heritage but is the 20th century society been really interested in is always going to say Ok So yes the end does that area reflect the kind of Festival of Britain 950 is nice it does it does and we're keeping that I mean we had quite some quite big discussions when you were the 2030 or our initial plan plans had to be changed quite a lot and we're now doing something which both celebrates that past and that's why we want to refocus the fiber but also brings into the 21st century What's the 5 Bush that's the mural that's right that is very much a part of history because it's interesting that that period of architecture that kind of we know what's known as mid century modern has become very fashionable as it was the sort of thing that we was we were not now is in 20 years ago now we're saying oh that's actually fantastic However the it must be said that the architecture of the 1951 reworking of the church was not in the spirit wasn't of Modernism as you interpret ing it you know which is of course very in vogue. Is it what your vision at the end of all of this and when is the end of this well hopefully the end of all this will be. April 2021 in time for the 70th anniversary the 1st for Britain right where raising We need 5000000 pounds we've raised 3000000 so we're on the Today show over 2000000 shy but you know we're heading that way and we might talk more about how do you raise the money from is corporate money is this where does it come it's a bit of some of it's come from the mayor of London which was great he's given us 3 course of a 1000000 through his good growth fund we've got trust in foundations the congregation of been very supportive and quite a lot of other people so we're heading in the right direction we do need more donations and there's a website some jobs Waterloo forward slash reignite. The most important thing about this is that it's for everybody there are kind of 3 headings as arts community and environment so we want to make the building fully sustainable so make it carbon neutral by storing p.v. Panels and. Panels on the roof and source heat pumps and various all this it just does it as a question I mean obviously relating to the church but more generally is there were a tension ever between wanting to be carbon neutral wanting to be as green as possible and the aesthetics of a building Yes certainly with with historically historic building Yeah I mean I live in a I'm very lucky I live in a Lake George in house and you can't put the double glazing you can't put solar panels on the roof it would be appalling that that's all absolutely true of the Navy particularly you know but it's Act We're starting with a crypt and there it is possible to make such radical improvements that we end up in a very good place from the point of view of sustainability and it's in the equipment it's in a multitude of small endeavors that add up to something that is really radically better I mean one of the other things that our area is and if famous is the correct word but known for is that there's always been a large homeless population around the area What's your relationship because obviously some are in the fields you know very similar story so there are 2 things that we really focus on the local community want to supporting homeless people and we open every Winter's Night Shelter Yeah so on Monday sat down in the crypt always in the church but it doesn't work very well at the moment because we haven't got proper catering facilities and things so this will enable us to provide proper food for 25 homeless people during the winter on a Monday night we also have a food bank and again that doesn't work very well because we haven't got the right city so it will improve that and we provide quite a lot of advice and support people so again that will become better through this building the other thing we do is a lot of supporting people into employment especially young local people who are funny to get work we've got a really successful track record. Sort of helping people in this one form and yeah we do a lot of that and but again we're hampered by our spaces and we want to improve them so that we can provide better services and we have a really good record about 80 or 90 percent of the people we work with Go want to get a full time job well which is great. Well how far are you into all of this where we're at the actually at the stage of being in able to implement this whole scheme so the intention is to start on site in July we've already done some enabling work so we're well on our way and you know there are there are contractors' in the wings and we're ready to go I'm going to be where you have to. Resteal meet the team. When we're going to have the project so we wouldn't be able to do the Church of the limits of that's what we need from the guy to turn that into the great space could be when the great day comes and he's having some big musical events to celebrate do you think we certainly will yeah we'll be lighting up the sky and it's going to be amazing when we reopen especially for celebration the Festival of Britain as well and if people come along to St John's just just literally if they were in the neighborhood a lot passing by oh they want to come and have a look you open every day yet where if an everyday 10 till 6 noticed those were still people about the scheme those donation boxes there's all those things and it's very much it is really a church from London and that's what we want and maybe some hearing about that from Kevin Giles go to the vicar of St John's Church in Waterloo and the architect Eric Parry Gentlemen thank you both very much. Was some poem about Mabel Mabel won the table. There it is somewhere in the very back of my addled brain. Stephen West Ham says Robert are you here up to Christmas Eve just so you can play your traditional homeless man singing before the break for Christmas yes indeed I am I'm here right up to Christmas Eve I've got Christmas day off I'm boxing day off and then I'm off for New Year's Day but other than that I'm here here all the way through and there's a link to the piece of music that I play every year and the church we were just discussing the piece of music is Jesus' blood never failed me yet and I'm sure most of you will know because you've been listening to the show a long time that it features a homeless man who was recorded back in the 1970 s. Singing that little ditty there's no other new word for it kind of rhyme. Set to classical music and on 90 odd percent certain that he was recorded in the grounds of the churchyard of St John's in Waterloo he was certainly recorded in Waterloo now it could have been in the old roundabout drama before it was the imam because people are homeless but we still live there and that was known as cardboard city was in it but this was earlier than that and I'm pretty certain he was recorded singing Jesus' blood in the in the. Church Jones he was with a group of homeless people who were there at the time that recording was Mike so there's an absolute link to that church and that piece of music which I will indeed be play. And it is it's a tradition in the show that we couldn't possibly like. The look of the lead to the. News. Want to join in it's news. News. Just some. Fun. See. She's a. Young punks against come she. Comes on the phone. The next. Phone. Thanks again. And. Again. Thanks. For getting up. K. K. And lots and lots of people tell me what to read which is fantastic and you know what many of you agree I'll tell you exactly which Dickens book is coming out as 5 for me to read next you know if you've never read Pickwick Papers that's the one I would say I mean they were great vexations I think is the greatest but Pickwick pipers is sung much fun. London's headlines at 1130 Good morning Boris Johnson has told his senior ministers You ain't seen nothing yet it is 1st cabinet meeting since the conservatives decisive election when Meanwhile Labor has branded the prime minister reckless and irresponsible for adding a new clause to his breakfast bill that would make it illegal for parliament to extend the transition period beyond the end of next year a London m.p. Has called for an urgent police investigation into an evangelical church that stands accused of financially exploiting its young members spac nation which has won praise for helping ex gang members find salvation denies the allegations made in last night's b.b.c. Panorama programme but the labor m.p. For Croydon North Steve Reid has told b.b.c. Radio London it's a cult and Scotland Yard should take immediate action the London Fire Brigade has been branded wasteful a not particularly well run by Her Majesty's inspectors the commissioner Danny caution who was given an advance copy of their report 6 weeks ago there's already announced shall retire at the end of the year more than 3 months early and the t.v. Presenter Caroline Flack says she won't be hosting the next series of Love Island after she was charged with assault at the home in a sling too and she shares with her boyfriend the 6 series of the reality show launches on i.t.v. 2 in the New Year. 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Deva have tunnels closed my few today and tomorrow until about 4 o'clock each day the trees that overhang the approach to the tunnel being cut down and back long delays on the highway and the 13 heading towards Tower Hill and over Tower Bridge as a result of this Jamaica the southern section old southern approach to the hives and not looking quite so bad still busy northbound up towards the black or tunnel that still not recovered from the rush hour and at Kensal Green Chamberlain road and Kilburn lane both of those closed off police investigations underway after an assault on the cheap severe delays on the bay Kalu line is also severe delays for the circle district and Hammersmith and City Lines was the Metropolitan line now on the move again but just minor delays the chains on the whole aside from Southwest in their way posting a good service there's more travel just after midday. This is all right tell me the last thing that you did that for you that was probably wanted the privilege to do it is London anywhere in London. Without hearing some noise of this is this family arena it's pretty big I mean I'm most excited about coming out and just saying hello there been askin to him he was here this is the trick is to come see you pleasure Milledge bonsai b.b.c. Radio London. Oh and let me remind you what we've still got to do we've got to listen to Perry right a female s