Vanishing Voices of Wartime London. Meet the proud cockneys who survived being blown up, machine-gunned and being buried alive!

Send us a text Welcome to a special episode, in which I seek out east London’s vanishing wartime voices. From my experience cockneys aren’t a dying breed, they are alive and flourishing, part of the cockney diaspora of Essex, Suffolk, Kent and even as far afield as Australia. What is in danger of disappearing are the vanishing voices of wartime East London. Go to East London today and you will hear a myriad of accents, transformed as it is by immigration and gentrification. What you will ...