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Charlie Chaplin's London

Charlie Chaplin was born and raised in working class South London at the end of the Victorian era, building his career in it's music hall culture.

What was London like then?

Charlie Chaplin was born and raised in working class South London at the end of the Victorian era, building his career in it's music hall culture.

But what was the capital like back then? And what was London as Charlie Chaplin knew it?

Robert Elms speaks to Jacqueline Riding - historian, academic and author of 'Hard Streets: Working Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London’ - to try and find out.

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