London Walks Podcasts


Andrew Marvell – Sex, Time & London

Date post added: 16th August 2026

“Had we but world enough, and time…” Meet Andrew Marvell: poet, politician, satirist, Londoner, and the man behind the sexiest poem in the English language. Then follow his footsteps through the London streets he knew.

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David Low –The Hampstead Cartoonist Hitler Wanted Arrested

Date post added: 15th August 2026

Hitler wanted him arrested. Mussolini banned him. And in a little Hampstead studio, David Low took on the dictators armed with nothing more than a pencil.

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August 14th – The Day the Chiefs Died

Date post added: 14th August 2026

“Less British Museum and more life”

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How Many Strangers Do You See in a Day in London?

Date post added: 13th August 2026

Strangers in London: for a few seconds their paths cross on a Tube escalator, then they disappear into the city.

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William Blake: The Londoner Who Saw Angels and Talked to the Dead

Date post added: 12th August 2026

The dead got into him. Old London got into him.

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Lee Miller – From Vogue to Dachau to Hitler’s Bathtub

Date post added: 10th August 2026

The woman who put the dirt of Dachau on Hitler’s bathmat.

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The 200 Bodies on Everest… and the 250 in Arizona

Date post added: 10th August 2026

The people in those vessels are not called bodies. They’re called patients.

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The Ship on the Roof

Date post added: 9th August 2026

The most wonderfully landlocked ship in London.

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£20,000 for a Pair of Old Boots

Date post added: 8th August 2026

…they’re old leather boots. Heavy, battered, workaday things. Except they’ve been silver-plated.

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Thirty-nine

Date post added: 7th August 2026

Each of those 39 stab wounds a candle blown out.

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