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Brixton

Brixton
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About Brixton

Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton experienced a rapid rise in population during the 19th century as communications with central London improved.

On the show โ€” 6 mentions total

The idea that everyone says is fact, although I don't think David Bowie actually said it, is that he used to see the poster of Tom Major. That was Major Tom, and that was in Brixton, and that was where Bowie was at the time. This song originally went, "This is Ground Control to Tom Major."

from 117: No Such Thing As Dr No Teeth, 2016-06-09 at 00:37:27 ยท read transcript

Other times Brixton came up

  1. These guys they're not pro or anti-nuclear they they genuinely are just in it for the trains as they say um and they have clarified that the radiation you would get because sometimes these pass along platforms you know they go through Brixton or whatever quite near passengers but they've said that the radiation you would get if you were on the platform one of these trains went by will be like you just eat a one banana isn't that amazing that everyone on the.

    354: No Such Thing As Worrying About What Might Happen, 2021-01-01 ยท listen

  2. It was basically the hardest kind of punishment you could get apart from being killed for probably about 100 years, and now people do it for fun? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They were massive as well, the prison treadmills. They started in Brixton. That's what Brixton was famous for 200 years ago was having a tremor which could fit 24 people on it at the same time, side by side. Wow. Yeah. Sorry, it was kind of like a game of... Did you guys ever play 10 green bottles? No. Did anyone ever play that?

    No Such Thing As A Safe Robot, 2019-05-31 ยท listen

  3. Now people do it for fun. They were massive as well. The prison treadmills, they started in Brixton. That's what Brixton was famous for 200 years ago, was having a tremor, which could fit 24 people on it at the same time, side by side. Sorry, it was kind of like a game of, did you guys ever play 10 green bottles? Did anyone ever play that? I know the song.

    271: No Such Thing As A Safe Robot, 2019-05-31 ยท listen

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