“The people you step over when you come out of the opera.”

— George Young, Baron Young of Cookham

On the homeless. "Today", BBC Radio 4, 29 June 1991, [Culture and Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis, A place in the city, François, Matarasso, Svetlana, Khristova, Milena, Dragićević Šešić, Nancy, Duxbury, Routledge, Abingdon, 2015, 136, 978-1-138-77841-2]

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