University of Westminster
Broadcasting House
A three minute walk from Oxford Circus station
London ultra-
The top end of Regent Street is is officially the birthplace of British cinema.
In 1896, the building that is now the University of Westminster, was chosen by the French Lumière brothers to show their moving pictures to a British audience for the first time. If you step inside today, the cinema has been restored and still screens independent films.
Over the traffic lights, behind the circular church with the narrow spire (All Souls Church) is the striking, curved Art Deco facade of BBC Broadcasting House.
If you walk around to the front of the building, you will find a bronze statue of author George Orwell, the plinth inscribed with his quote: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."