Rick Jones
Rick Jones is a Blue Badge Guide (and pianist and freelance writer) who for most of his working life was a journalist. As such he was for ten years chief music critic for the Evening Standard and he remains Secretary of the Critics Circle (founded 1913). He developed a form of costume journalism in which he reconstructed journeys, mostly walks, by famous individuals in costume. As JS Bach he walked across Germany, as Felix Mendelssohn he hiked across the Highlands of Scotland, as Edward Elgar he cycled across the Malvern Hills and as Shakespeare’s clown Will Kemp he danced across East Anglia. It was these experiences which gave him a taste for walking tours and the tales to be told from them. Meet Rick – here he is talking about his Medical London tours.
All of Rick Jones's Walks
Tate Britain
Monday, 06 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Monday)
"I’ve been to a lot of great museums (Met of NY, MOMA, Guggenheim, Louvre, Uffizi, Prado, National Gallery, to name a few) and Rick Jones is the BEST tour guide I have ever had. Period. Full stop." Paul Scheufele
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land Tour
Wednesday, 08 July 2026 @ 11.30 am (This walk goes every Wednesday)
"in 20 years of London Walks this is the best one I've ever been on"
The Tate Modern Highlights Tour
Wednesday, 08 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
"I’ve been to a lot of great museums (Met of NY, MOMA, Guggenheim, Louvre, Uffizi, Prado, National Gallery, to name a few) and Rick Jones is the BEST tour guide I have ever had. Period. Full stop." Paul Scheufele
Underneath the Arches
Thursday, 09 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Thursday)
"Pubs make you feel good"
Medical Tour: All Around the University – Firsts & Inventions in the History of Medicine
Thursday, 09 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Thursday)
Just a little prick… from Edward Jenner to AstraZeneca
The City Churches Tour
Friday, 10 July 2026 @ 10.30 am (This walk goes every Friday)
"Fan vaulting, Bow bells, a Mediterranean courtyard, a sermon timer and a mighty organ beneath Christopher Wren's most beautiful dome"
Walking with Shakespeare – a performance, an invocation, a time machine
Saturday, 11 July 2026 @ 11.30 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
From the Barbican to the Globe, with stories, songs and the lascivious pleasing of the lute.
The Changing of the Guard Tour
Monday, 13 July 2026 @ 10 am (This walk goes every Monday)
Rick Jones and Ronnie Haydon – distinguished arts critic and Time Out Editor – turn the Guard Change into high theatre.
Other walks in Rick Jones's repertoire.
They run occasionally as 'Specials' but can also be booked privately.
All Around the University – Firsts and Inventions in the History of Medicine
"reputation for medicine is second to none in the world" Guided by Rick Jones (do click on the Rick link, you'll like what's there)
Shakespeare Birthday Walk with Lute
"Harry Hunks’ place of work..."
The Rugby Tour – to Accompany the Six Nations Tournament
"with a fine disregard for the rules"
The Changing of the Guard Tour
Rick Jones and Ronnie Haydon – distinguished arts critic and Time Out Editor – turn the Guard Change into high theatre.