Just up, new podcast: The Greatest Explorer You’ve Never Heard Of

Date post added: 17th January 2025

The Greatest Explorer You’ve Never Heard Of

The London Nobody Else Saw

Little America

London is for the Birds!

The London You’ve Never Heard

The Day Green Park Went Mad

The Royal Park Nobody Notices

Hot Tip – Beat the Heat in Covent Garden

A Love Letter to Burlington Arcade –Commitment

A Love Letter to Burlington Arcade – Courtship

A Love Letter to Burlington Arcade – Foreplay

Purrs, Paws, Poems, Paintings & Prime Ministers

How Marie Stopes Learned About Sex

Making the List

The Best Room in London

Under the Blue Dome

Everest in Euston 

Belgravia on the Radar

999

Reading the Dead

Before the Curtain Goes Up

Paris Walks

The New Centre of London

Prinney’s Big Day

London in Water and Light

The Best London Calling Podcast Ever

A Nation in Single File

The Man Who Taught London How to Stand Up Straight

Hampstead at Full Tilt

The Day England Said No to FIFA

The Day London Blushed

Summer Has Arrived in London

Hogarth’s London

The Art of Local Knowledge

The American Patriot

The Day the Monarchy Went Modern

So Much Death – and So Much Life

London’s Hall of Forgotten Fame

The Hogarth Trail – 48 Hours in Georgian London

Chelsea Buns & Georgian Viagra

The Kensington Time Capsule

The Man Who Invented Cool

Luke and Conrad

Tempest Slinger’s Legacy

The Man in the Bowler Hat

The Sacred Lamp of Burlesque

The Coolest Man in the Rolling Stones

Some Like It Hot

The Woman Who Refused to Leave

A Great Reckoning in a Little Room

The Gate of Ghosts, Poets & Traitors

Fleming. Ian Fleming.

Checkmate!

The Count in Piccadilly

The Gate Where Chaucer Lived

The Heart Strangely Warmed

The Rope Snapped 

The Secret City Above Kensington

Hats Off to Lock & Co.

A Goose Called Brent

They even looted the word “loot”

The Day London Bought Bottled Air

The Man Who Invented Modern Britain

Hallam – the Tennyson Nobody Knows

It’s the Soundtrack of Our Lives

The Tea Tax Heard Round the World

The Woman Who Invented the Future in St James’s Square

Keep on Travelling. Keep on Laughing. 

Megawatts to Masterpieces

The Woman Who Cracked the Old Boys’ Club

Happy Birthday Mr Punch! That’s the Way to Do It!

The Day London Welcomed David Attenborough

Happy Birthday, Robert Browning

The Queen Writes. The Axe Waits.

Marx in London – The Making of a World-Changer

The Birthplace of Wonderland

The Night London Lit Up

The ‘t’ is Silent

The Day London Stood to Attention

This is London. Honestly.

Cats Rule London

London Unrolled

Turning up the Lights

The Perfect Start

The Mutiny that Came to London

Where London Begins

Rome Fell. Gibbon Wrote.

He Wrote Survival. He Lived It.

Brief Encounter

Kensington – Bags of Money

April 23 – A Date Like No Other

Wigged, Witty and Wonderfully Not Guilty

First Time London

The Matrimonial Hall of Fame

God Died in London

A Final Curtain Call

Top Secret

The Queen’s Century – A London Story

Peach Melba & Pavement Sandwiches – The Strand’s Food Story

The Silver Voice of London

Whan that Aprille, with his shoures soote

Football’s Greatest Gentleman

She Swore on Stage… and London Gasped

This one’s bananas – London, 1633

One Head, One Blow, Mind the Front Row

700 Years of “Halt! Who Comes there?”

London’s most extraordinary skinflint

Chaucer Goes to Market – Brixton Market

The Day Oscar Wilde Destroyed Himself

This Isn’t London. (Except It Is.)

Prime Minister Day

Wedding Bells… or Warning Bells?

April Fools in the Capital of Mischief

The Man Who Staged His Own Death

The Londoner Who Gave Us Summer Evenings

Run, London, Run

The Most Interesting Man in London

St Albans – Fifteen Minutes… and 2,000 Years Away

The Day the City Let Women In

The Impossible Tunnel

What If Everything You Know About Jack the Ripper Is Wrong?

“I walked across London…and couldn’t believe it”

The Secret Life of London’s Greatest Showman

KPG – A Street of Secrets, Wealth & Privilege

The Day Gravity Died in London

Andrew Marr Gets Carré-d Away on a London Walk

Laurence Sterne – The Original Literary Rock Star Who Took London by Storm

London’s Irish Story

Aubrey Beardsley – Genius, Scandal & an Early Grave

Broadcasting House – the BBC Comes of Age

The Night London Went Mikado-Mad

Home to London – Alan Cobham’s Epic Flight

Thomas Arne – The London Composer Behind Rule Britannia

Don’t Panic – Douglas Adams’ London

Slasher Mary – The Suffragette Who Attacked the Rokeby Venus

The Mini Skirt Takes Over Swinging London – When Hemlines Suddenly Went North

The Blind Beggar Murder – When Ronnie Kray Shot George Cornell

The Man Who Made London Roar – Landseer & the Lions of Trafalgar Square

Thirty-eight Seconds of Perfect Guiding

The American Who Reinvented Oxford Street

Oxford Street Without Traffic?

When John Lennon Said The Beatles Were More Popular Than Jesus

Everest – At Eve, The Rest

Happy New Year, Londinium – When March Was New Year

Roger Daltrey – from Shepherd’s Bush to The Who

The Man Who Drew Wonderland

The Bayeux Tapestry Is Coming to London

In Paper We Trust

The Great Trafalgar Square Pigeon War

Extra! Extra! – Tube Etiquette, Ukraine, etc.

Mother’s Ruin

The City’s Flag – and the Story It Tells

Trouble Brewing on the Heath

A Feline Fix from the Capital

The Night the Fuse was Lit at Drury Lane

Meet Your Guide – On the Scene with Catherine Randall

The Duke in the Barrel

The Ladder into Thin Air

How Many Nobel Prizes Has London Won?

Tagore in the Vale of Health

London’s Last Line of Defence

Bart’s – Born of a Fever Dream

When London Drank Death

Ave Atque Vale, Sylvia Plath

Death Arriving

The Man Who Weighed the World

Grave Business

Extra! Extra!!

Sir Thomas More – Born in London

Out of the Palace of Dim Light

The Sage of Chelsea

One of London’s Most Beloved Fall Guys

When the Haymarket Closed In

Candlemas in a Dying City

Imbolc

London Takes On Slavery

The Rooftop Concert

Desert Island Discs – London Calling 

Pride and Prejudice

Talking Rugby, Walking London

Butchered in Khartoum

On Her Birthday – Virginia Woolf’s London

Today we’re talking rats…

History You Can Eat

Bangkok Calling, London Answering

The Dead of Winter

Cheese, Glorious Cheese

The War Fell Out of the Sky

Pooh Day

Beer – Bees – Bells, Sir Leslie and Me

When Rome Fell and London Took Notes

Meet Your Guide – Former MP Tom Levitt

The Bell that Summons Power

Harrods: Come in. Just for a look.

London’s Museum of You Cannot Be Serious

The Man Who Gave Us the British Museum… and Milk Chocolate

Guide Adam, the BBC & David Bowie’s London

London in Your Pocket

Little Willie Hitler

He Made History Portable

Orwell’s London

January 5, 1066 – Edward the Confessor and the End of Old England

David Attenborough

The Londoner Who Looked into Eternity

Sack – London in a Glass

When London Found Its Voice

At the Stroke of Twelve

London Walks at Home

London’s Oldest Bookshop

The Day Trafalgar Square Nearly Became the Acropolis

London’s Colosseum Dream

Six Million Tonnes of What Were They Thinking

Ice in Their Veins – The Serpentine Christmas Swim and London’s Wildest Tradition

She Taught the World to Dream on Tiptoe

Out of the Blue – London’s Small, Perfect Surprises

The Day George Eliot Left the Room

Bloomsbury – the Day Pain Ended

In Praise of Saturday

The Man Who Could Be Everyone

The Night Poetry Turned Violent

A Christmas Carol – the Walk & the Book

The Sound of Music History

Outsider at the Heart of London

Winter Solstice on the Towpath

Dr Samuel Johnson – London’s Mighty Wordsmith

Robert Browning – Death in Venice, Born in London

Count Smorltork Rises

Party like it’s 1843

A Bite of Christmas

Thrillers on Villiers

When London Slept & History Changed

Conrad Hotel Confidential

Wishing the Poet a Happy Birthday!

The Man Who Turned London Upside Down

The Woman Who Changed Everything

Birkbeck – London’s Night-School Miracle

Yuletide Birdcast

Hail and Farewell

London gets up a head of steam

Hampstead’s Wicked Little Secret

Tree-mendous London

When Christmas Came Back to London

Whodunnit, and Still Doin’ It

The Day the Thames Stopped

Cutty Sark – the Ship that Raced the Wind

London on the Day the World Changed

Empire in a Cup – How Tea Took Over Britain

The Night the Darkness Lost

London, Caught in a Flurry

The Day London Stood Still – Wellington’s Last March

Islington – London’s Sparkling Mischief Maker

Size Matters – the Rise and Fall of the Codpiece

Fortnum’s – The Unexpected Second Helping

Fortnum & Mason – Where London’s Christmas Begins

The King, the Booze-up & the Birth of Clapham

From Chaos to Elegance – The Story of Art Deco

Dickens’ London – the Real Thing Not the Replica

William Hogarth – the Man Who Drew London Naked

The Cat’s Whiskers – London History with Claws

“Day Brought Back My Night” – The Death of John Milton

A Hampstead Doorway that Opens All the Way to South Africa

St Leonard of the Workaday – the Saint Who Looked After London’s Grafters

The Church That Defines London

“Events, dear boy, events”

The Bells That Made London

Britain on Ice – the Lyons Maid Story

Remember, Remember…

What is it about this date?

After Hours in the British Museum & A Tail in Hyde Park

A Jewel in a Velvet Box – The Wallace Collection

The Man Made of Gold

Sotheby’s – What’s In It for the Rich?

Under the Hammer – A London Story

St Crispin’s Day – Two Writers, One Glory

The Hall Where Hope Began

Jonathan Guides Smithfield – and David Unpicks the Age of Un

The Man Who Made History Fun (And Wrong)

Brent – Oldest Name, Newest Beat

The Secret History of London’s Railway Stations

Meet Your London Walks Guide – Here’s Jonathan

Londerful – the Saint, the Strawberries & the Word

A Night to Remember

Camden Unfolded

From Holborn to the Heath

Hands Across Camden

A Sunday in London, 1975

Meeting Gandhi – Dr Ann’s Big Idea

Monstrously Good Read & Covent Garden Teaser

Big Ideas in Bloomsbury – Dr Ann’s Thought-Provoking New Walk

Tiny Mice to Towering Views

A Love Letter to Stucco

How London Got Gazumped

Tails of the City

London by Gaslight

The Bolshoi Storms London

London’s Double-deckers at 100

October 1st Update – The Ultimate London Walk

September 30 – Peace for Our Time, Judgement for All Time

Georgian 101

The Hinge of the Year

Sneak Preview of Dan Parry’s London’s Spymasters Walk

Books, Bombs & British Backbone

London Makes Medical History

The Man Who Invented Gothic & Gossip

The Day the Room Went Still

Cable Laying, Garden Strolling & Foodie Rolling

London’s Shimmering Royals

The Candle That Never Went Out

London’s Secret Stages

A Foggy Day in London’s Memory

Malaysia on Thames

Ripper Masterclass – Dan Parry

Short Jaunt, Long History

The London-Paris Party Trick

Cinderella City

Breathing London

Decoding London – Sentinels of the City

Cutlasses on the Tide

This is London… and Kuala Lumpur

The Trailblazers – the First Ever Ultimate London Walkers

The Curtain Rises at Hadley Wood

Dr Livingstone I presume – in North London

Barnet Rising – Where London’s Story Marches South

One foot in Hertfordshire, one foot in London

The Secret Alphabet of London’s Postcodes

London’s Secret Artery

Friday Night at the Museum – London Walks Style

Every Corner Tells a Story

Countdown to Lift-Off – The Ultimate London Walk

Cracking the London Postcode Riddle

Book Club to Barristers, Pear Tree to Palace

On the Trail of the King of the Pirates

“Don’t cry for me Argyll Street (it’s free out here)”

A gun with a guy

Hogarth, Hisses & Hampstead

One of London’s “lost rivers”

Carnival! Europe’s biggest street party

Look Up, London!

Plaque Attack!

Sexy Nuns, Shakespeare’s Sundays & Adam’s Home Runs

Indiana Helena & the Relic Raiders

Scouting for London – Baden-Powell’s Home Town

In the Cardinal’s Dressing Room

The Day the Fuse Was Lit

From Greenwich with Time

The Day the Angels Sang

Eyes wide, mind afire

London in Miniature – Columns, Colours & a Mile of Style

Brolly Good Show

Saltwater in His Veins – the Londoner Who Invented the Sea Story

The Statue that Killed a Man

Six Inches from Forever

Bomber Harris on Hiroshima Day

The Chelsea Physic Garden

St Paul’s Cathedral – a London heartbeat in stone

It’s like adding two Michael Jordan’s to your team

August 2, 1914 – On the Brink

“Yeah, digging here, this was a graveyard – so we’re getting lots of bones”

Methuselah Sky Diver

Harrow School – Follow up! Follow up!

“the first and last BBC woman announcer”

London Street Furniture – Link Extinguishers

“Make Kensington Fun Again”

St James’s Day, Football & Chiswick

Tie one on

Knightsbridge – the Velvet Ghetto

Update: The Ultimate London Walk

From prison to gallery, punishment to pleasure

He was a human cannonball

A shape for sorrow

Not just articulate, inspiring

Paris & London

A certain slant of light

Bow Street – Let’s go to Will’s Coffee House

The Young Dancer 

A young woman’s death by hanging

A building very important in English history

What happened today changed world history!

Let’s go to Kensington

Fundamentals, Wimbledon, etc. 

Bow Street

This is London – Gay Pride, Wimbledon, Kneecap & Trams

This one’s personal

Karen guiding in the National Portrait Gallery

London on July 4, 1776

The book burning

Constitution Hill is London’s grassy knoll

July & Julius Caesar and Robert & Rotherhithe

London Nightlife

She had 200 lovers

The Monument

Theatre Director and Novelist

Pied Piper Day

Gamechanger! David guides the Charge of the Light Brigade

Gamechanger – David G., the platonic ideal of a great guide

Midsummer Eve

Laurie lives in Florida but she’s a Londoner

The Albany – you’re not in Kansas anymore

The Complete Works of Shakespeare will never look the same

“Sexual intercourse makes your teeth fall out”

I wear purple

“Power is my mistress”

Why go on the Mrs Dalloway’s London Walk?

All About June 8th

Stewart’s Scoop!

London on D-Day

Mrs Dalloway – Centenary Walk – Limited Edition

Lonely in London, two human skulls, a jar of bull’s sperm…

Roses, Spies, Roman Goddesses, Peacocks, Poetry…

Laurie from Florida, heroes & human sacrifices

Celebrity Cats, Jerry the Gentleman Cat, etc. – Advancer for Ann’s Cat Tails Walk

All changed, changed utterly

“My life – it’s a long disease”

Meet the Prince of Paradox

Ian Fleming & James Bond – warts and all

The month of May – what the name signifies

Death came calling today

Bovril, black tie & the pen is mightier than the sword

Portuguese architect – a Ripper victim reached out to him

Makes the world richer and stranger

Meet the Vicar

“It is a very sad thing that there is so little useless information around”

Ffiona takes us through the menu

This day in May

My favourite London restaurant

Sunday will never be the same

This weekend

Thinking of going on the Chiswick Walk? Here’s the clincher…

VE Day

Let’s go by bus

Bank Holidays – their history

Hidden London

The young woman who saved London Walks

So how might you have celebrated VE Day?

“Death is contagious; it’s contracted the moment we are conceived”

How would Keir Starmer like it if his family replaced him with a handsome young Siberian?

Odds & Ends and an Update on The Ultimate London Walk

The Four Specials on St George’s Day

Meet Your Guide – Andy Hotels Interview

The Monday Night Music History Club

Brilliant cross-examination. Verdict not in question.

“Where Soldiers are Shot”

The Ultimate London Walk

This is London

St Patrick’s Day & Conservation Architect 

Regency London – the Bankside

Regency London

The Captain’s House

Quotidian London

“putrescent in the nostrils of the nation”

Famous London couple – their double suicide

“Winston Churchill’s steering gear is too weak for his horsepower”

Cat Tales & Weather Goodies (Baddies Actually)

“31 on ’em killed in a row”

350,000 London millionaires

Hanged by a silken rope and 706 men seen off by one woman

“Make Victorian Britain Great Again”

Protein Man, Little Turkey, Invasion, Spy, Camden Town & Economics 101

Streateries, Statuecide, Shanghai Grip, Disinformation Space…

Guide Richard Walker gets Jack the Ripper & Frederich Engels in his sights

The chimes of Big Ben

February 15, 1925, flower girls & a monster fish

London Walks Valentine’s Day – Poem, History & Walk

Leprosy & the poshest neighbourhood in London

White slavery in London

Hampstead Spies Weekend

Curtain going up on Ann’s Cat Tails Walk

Oscar Wilde – “the tyranny of want”

ABCs of London Walks


David Tucker

The doyen of London walking tour guides, David is the Seigneur of this favoured realm (London Walks). A literary historian and retreaded academic (London University Ph.D. on Dickens) and former television news editor, he broods over words, breeds enthusiasms and is "unmanageable." For good measure, he's a balterer, a logophile and a lifelong thanatophobe.

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