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The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground

38 mins | Mar 11, 2020

He built a bunker under London's Hamstead Heath park. After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a home beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious. Tom Lamont explores the remarkable story.

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