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Season 2, Episode 9 17:19 running time

Hitchcock: Always a Londoner

In this episode, we tell three stories about a murder and a reputation restored.

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Hosted by

Dame Joanna Lumley

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Sound Editing

Will Jacob

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  • Piazza, Covent Garden, London

‘Frenzy’

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Written by

Joanna Clarke

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Performed by

Stephen Fry

About this story

In 1971 filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock returns to London to direct a new thriller, Frenzy. Filming in his father’s old haunts of Covent Garden fruit and veg market, an old friend of his father makes himself known.

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Watch the shot of walking through the flower market and the innovative long shot (mentioned in Story 3) on YouTube. YouTube has a 1925 film of costermonger Jim Salisbury practicing his record of balancing baskets on his head, a feat Hitchcock might have seen in his youth.

  • The Thames Houses of Parliament, London

The Master of Promotion

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Written by

Joanna Clarke

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Performed by

Stephen Fry

About this story

Director Alfred Hitchcock edits a trailer for his new 1972 film ‘Frenzy’.

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YouTube has the original Frenzy trailer.

  • 3 Henrietta Street, London

The Critic and the Long Shot

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Written by

Joanna Clarke

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Performed by

Stephen Fry

About this story

Penelope Houston, editor of ‘Sight and Sound’ magazine, reviews Alfred Hitchcock’s new film Frenzy in 1972, and is particularly impressed with his innovative, now famous long shot.

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Internet Archive has the full Penelope Houston ‘Sight and Sound’ film review. Duckworth Books looks at the history of 3 Henrietta St.