On a family friend, Josef Cukier, stranded in London at the outbreak of WW2, and his plan to rescue his wife and two daughters, Jews caught in the chaos and terror of Nazi-occupied Poland... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to A Café Called Dorice, by Oliver Sears above.
A pub called 'the Swiss Tavern', once a former tollgate keeper’s cottage, gives Swiss Cottage in Northwest London its name.
Sitting between a dozen lanes of traffic like an urban lighthouse, it is connected to the mainland by three sets of pedestrian crossings that bob like marker buoys, measuring progress rather than genuinely offering safe passage. You'll need a drink if you make it across...
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