London Walks Podcasts


London Through a Cat’s Eyes

Date post added: 31st August 2026

What happens when you look at London history through a cat’s eyes? Ann knows.

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The Woman Who Invented Our Dream of England

Date post added: 30th August 2026

Helen Allingham painted the thatched cottages, tangled roses and flower-filled gardens that became our enduring dream of England.

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Six Foot Six in Village London

Date post added: 29th August 2026

Meet George, the six-foot-six goalkeeper whose summer job in Kensington Church Walk reveals that, beneath the big-city bustle, London is still a village.

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The Day English Cricket Died

Date post added: 28th August 2026

When Australia beat England at The Oval in 1882, a cheeky newspaper obituary pronounced English cricket dead and gave the world the Ashes.

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The Man Who Saved St Pancras

Date post added: 27th August 2026

John Betjeman loved the London other people wanted to demolish, and when the wreckers came for St Pancras, the poet stood in their way

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Naked, German & Going for Gold in King’s Cross

Date post added: 26th August 2026

Long before the Olympic flame reached London, a German gymnasium in King’s Cross was limbering up, stripping off and helping to set the modern Games in motion.

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The Prince Who Turned a Lamp White

Date post added: 25th August 2026

Anniversary of Prince Albert’s birth. His death left Queen Victoria inconsolable, changed the colour of a London police lamp and left a remarkable trail through the capital.

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The Death of Chatterton: The Dead Poet Who Wasn’t There

Date post added: 24th August 2026

The dead poet is George Meredith, the garret is in Gray’s Inn, and the painter is about to run away with his model’s wife.

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The Night London Learned a New Word

Date post added: 23rd August 2026

A navigational error. Nine Londoners dead. Edward R. Murrow at his microphone in Trafalgar Square. And the night the Blitz began.

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The Oxford Don, the Railway Laureate and Learning England

Date post added: 22nd August 2026

The railway laureate, an Oxford don, a baby, and infantry…

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