Open City: Deconstructed - 11 September 2025 (Nigel Smith)
Resonance FM
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Description
Weekly programmes by Open City. Making architecture and cities more open, accessible, and equitable. This week: Deconstructed. In this episode, Matthew Lloyd Roberts is joined by Nigel Smith, who runs Memory Palaces, a website and programme of walking tours to explore the history of London’s cinemas. They discuss the Carlton Cinema on Essex Road, Islington, which first opened to the public in a grand ceremony in 1930, and represents the changing fashions and fate for cinema-going throughout the 20th-century. Nigel will be giving walking tours of London cinemas over the coming months, including the Carlton.
