This pod is a collection of material on the development of the so-called Thames Gateway, which Mute is aiming to publish some articles about in our next issue (June 06).

'They had sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith – the adventurers and the settlers; kings' ships and the ships of men on 'Change; captains, admirals, the dark "interlopers" of the Eastern trade, and the commissioned "generals" of East India fleets. ...

"And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been [will be] one of the dark places of the earth."' 

– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.