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Four Walls

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Documentary adventures that invite a closer listen. Reggie moved to London from their small town in the Midlands in 2018, to find other queer people like them. Five years later, they are living the life they only thought possible in movies. They're also deeply overdrawn. For decades, London has been a city that queer people from more conservative parts of the UK move to, in search of community and to live as their authentic selves. Now, with housing so unstable, queer people are among the marginalised communities for which homelessness is on the rise. They continue to come to London now to find their place, but the trade off is extreme financial insecurity. Four Walls looks at at what it means to have to choose between one form of home over another. Music by Femi Oriogun-Williams Produced by Jesse Lawson A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4