London Walks suspended (briefly) but we’re still guiding – Podcasts and Virtual Tours Online!
“there is a legend that one night during a butchers’ convention 26 butchers and their wives slept in this bed”
Read More“here we have William handing the red cap of liberty to Europe…here we have the man who invented the first television aerial [joke, needless to say]”
Read More“it took eight hits of the axe to get his head off, to put it bluntly”
Read More“Always drink upstream from the herd…we had to slip the surly bonds of the coach…fastly superior”
Read More“Simon took an American megastar on a tour and she liked it so much she asked for a second helping – booked Simon for the next day”
Read MoreYou go on a virtual tour of Kensington – the wealthiest borough in London (indeed the wealthiest district in the country) – you best strap yourself in because “Sights & Secrets of Virtual Kensington” takes you through the looking glass: to the Cotswolds and the Egypt of the pharaohs and San Francisco and Docklands and […]
Read More“you’ll see a Victorian mortuary and Brigitte Bardot and a bear being skinned and 1930s workmen on a girder 80 storeys up and a Civet Cat and the prettiest girl in London and World War II bomb damage and Hugh Hefner’s shoes and the four great biblical rivers and Ascot hats…and that’s just for starters”
Read More“What caused this musical coitus interruptus?”
Read More“on our little street of 60 houses, 15 men lost their lives in the Great War”
Read More“the Beatles had managed to make my hometown the centre of the world”
Read Morethe beautiful neo-classic villa is a masterpiece…with the star attraction being the library
Read More“Keith was fed up with the banality of typical London tourist fare”
Read More“the village is small, idiosyncratic and charming”
Read More“matter from decomposing bodies leaked into drinking wells and springs”
Read More“we’re going to take a little detour to Udaipur – in western India”
Read More“Hampstead’s great advantage as a spa town… in the end proved to be its great disadvantage”
Read More“darkness visible”
Read MoreOne of the great things about these Virtual Tours is that we can do a lot more than we can when we’re standing on the street…we can use maps and videos and things like that…
Read More“it’s the deepest station in the system – world-class marathon runners train by running up those 320 stairs ten to twelve times a session”
Read More“it’s so unexpected”
Read More“we can hear the influence of Calypsos on so many quintessentially London acts”
Read More“11 one-legged men on one team, 11 one-armed men on the other team”
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Read More“The Mississippi drains a continent. Small beer really. The Thames drains time itself.”
Read More“the patter and the chatter of the market migrated into the neighbourhood at large”
Read More“his name was Albert Edward Christian George Patrick Andrew David”
Read More“London is in bloom…”
Read More“32 carriages, one for each of London’s 32 boroughs”
Read More“They took all of us to the moon…I was never quite as cool as Armstrong was”
Read More“a woman in central London being executed by a firing squad”
Read More“dog Jack thought the nurses were sheep and tried to round them up”
Read More“she was buried in a £5,000 Zandra Rhodes dress stolen from Harrods”
Read More“the sound of the explosion could be heard clearly in London”
Read More“prime ministers have mistresses left, right and centre”
Read More“he exited a shop with three pairs of women’s red knickers that he hadn’t paid for”
Read More“let’s walk back in time”
Read More“the strangest, bizarrest bit of London”
Read More“very strange to see ourselves repeating history”
Read More“taking people to little known places people they may not come across on their own”
Read More“halfway up the abbey, disaster – scooped as much of William as possible back into the coffin”
Read More“where there is a daring deed to be done in any part of the world an Englishman should leap to the front to accomplish it”
Read More“today it’s a sleepy little place…your first sight is the tower of the Norman churches”
Read More“the Iron Lady, may she rust in peace”
Read More“Order. Raising a point of order on a point of order that is not a point of order is not a point of order. Sit down”
Read More“syphilis was thought to be a remedy…syphilis-ridden prostitutes did a roaring trade”
Read More“50 ways not to write the letter A…in the murky depths of the Thames…a great culinary step forward”
Read More“Mary Anning’s specimens changed our view of the history of life…”
Read More“Welcome to my world… let’s imagine that you’ve come to visit me here and you’ve asked me to show you round”
Read More“they still wear hairshirts to this day”
Read More“C a wealth of detail”
Read More“merriment and debauchery…they were having a good time”
Read More“you can’t set foot without treading on a prince”
Read More“it was a difficult kiss”
Read More“we are still subject to our ancestors, viruses that go back billions of years”
Read More“don’t you hear the Death Hound baying at your heels?”
Read More“one of London’s secret doors..old fashioned covered arcades twinkle on every corner…for dessert we swing by the official Royal Chocolatier (and we don’t just look, we taste)”
Read More“you were taking your life in your hands…the trendiest shopping street in the world…we’re going nightclubbing…going inside to look at a couple of Banksys”
Read More“Go right back. Look at the history. Work out where we are. And why we are where we are today…”
Read MoreWhen horses ran London – left us an amazing legacy – plenty still to see if you know where – and how – to look
Read More“Do you like auctions?… The hammer finally came down in my favour…You can almost hear the crowds shouting and the laughter and shrieks of the children and smell the smoke coming from the cannons that have been fired”
Read More“Black Death pits set under well-groomed gardens where people have their lunch, blissfully unaware of the horrors that lie at their feet…”
Read More“Words, Harry, are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic”
Read More“one of London’s secret doors..old fashioned covered arcades twinkle on every corner…for dessert we swing by the official Royal Chocolatier (and we don’t just look, we taste)”
Read More“an execution, a dead body snatched, a perfectly good brain smashed into a jar and swapped for a damaged one”
Read More“a lovely, unforgettable moment was the time in the British Museum when a guy went down on his knees and asked his girlfriend to marry him”
Read More“it’s okay dear, it’s been circumcised”
Read More“Ships from all over the world, old sugar mill now a famous pub, Oliver Twist and stars”
Read MoreUp close with the rarest of the rare (quiz question: Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Kennedy assassination, Harry Potter – what are the connections?
Read More“Cash flow runs deep, but spirit deeper…”
Read More“she has listened to the voices on city breezes borne”
Read MoreRichard III’s play was about to open… it was the technical rehearsal…
Read MoreWelcome to the sunlit streets of Wodehouse’s London
Read More“He sounds like Paul McCartney…”
Read MoreWalking with Wordsworth and “The Voice” (Lance). And into the bargain, a thrilling – and deeply satisfying – piece of literary detective work…
Read More“back and forth she crossed, scattering ashes on the Abbey Road crosswalk”
Read MoreSolved! Finally. The heist of the famous painting. The great art whodunnit.
Read MoreDavid gets in on the act– comes crashing in – on Kensington. This is his first podcast – shocking in places – but you’ll learn some good stuff.
Read More“Love sonnets read by Ruth, she of the divine voice – re-sunshines your life”
Read MoreA culinary and historical feast, this will have you skipping like the high hills. To say nothing of salivating and gorging. And queuing up for Ann’s Foodies’ London walks when they’re back.
Read MoreLet’s hear it for privileged access. Taking us in just before it opens – it’s like going backstage just before the curtain rises – “the world’s greatest guide” shows us round, upstairs and downstairs, London’s oldest, classiest, most storied restaurant.
Read More“I could listen to this beautiful woman all day”
Read MoreAccomplished actor and London Walks guide Oliver Beamish delivers a perfectly judged, professionally rendered performance of the greatest poem every written about London, Wordsworth’s sonnet “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
Read MoreBuried treasure – award-winning guide who bursts into song – “you’re going to look up and be absolutely astonished” – “Betsy with her immense size breasts”
Read MoreOne in 150 million million million – Shaughan’s Little Venice walk
Read Moreswans, mooring rings, a horse escape route, red livery, “the British Open’s” house and her sex life… Some tapas from Part 2 of actor Shaughan Seymour’s Little Venice podcast
Read MoreSerenaded, sex aplenty, serried ranks of celebrities, secrets, sophisticated, Shaughan Seymour…
Read MoreA guiding tour de force. It’s accomplished actor Oliver Beamish opening his Jack the Ripper walk. A 38-second introduction that doubles as a mini-master class in how it – guiding – should be done.
Read MoreWestminster Abbey, a tortoise that entertained patients, polar exploration… just three of many threads woven together brilliantly in this “London” tapestry
Read More“a glorious roll-call of British eccentrics: the Wits, the Windbags and Wayward Wigs battling it out over Wives, Writs, Wills, Widows and Wrecks”
Read MoreShaughan Seymour – actor and London Walks guide nonpareil – squires you through central London’s most extraordinary and improbable enclave. “Shaughan is a joy. You could travel through a desert with him and he’d make sand sound interesting.”
Read MoreAward-winning – some award, she won the big one, the Guide of the Year Award – guide Fiona does a weekly tour for London Walks that explores the Tube. Called The Lure of the Underground, it explores the Tube above and below ground. Drawn from Fiona’s tour of the Underground, this fascinating Podcast “takes us […]
Read MoreRichard, who sailed a tiny boat across the Pacific, always has interesting things to say. Plus he’s a great guy. Enjoy!
Read MoreExploring secret London – up creeping lanes, round out-of-the-way corners, past veiled islands of green – Shaughan’s at his inimitable best. Part 2/2
Read MoreExploring secret London – up creeping lanes, round out-of-the-way corners, past veiled islands of green – Shaughan’s at his inimitable best. Part 1/2
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