London Walks Podcasts


Teleported. It’s 1673. We’re in the oldest botanic garden in London.

Date post added: 17th November 2020

“you can put a child on one of these lily pads and they will not fall in”

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Taking Stock – London Walks guides have now produced nearly 250 Virtual Tours

Date post added: 16th November 2020

Don’t know where, don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again Some sunny day…in London.

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What Christmas is as we grow older

Date post added: 14th November 2020

“you’ll hear deeply personal things”

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Up Ahead – the Christmas Lights of London

Date post added: 14th November 2020

“Here we can get lost in a magical world of under the sea”

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‘Flower of Cities All’ – Medieval London History and Archaeology

Date post added: 12th November 2020

“Street names such as Stinking Lane, Bladder Street and Pissing Alley give a clue to the conditions underfoot”

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This is great guiding – Laura gifts us with a profound sense of wonder

Date post added: 11th November 2020

“conscription for women had begun in 1941”

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Virginia Woolf – at war’s end

Date post added: 10th November 2020

“mentally, the change is marked too”

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The Cenotaph – a sense of loss that is overwhelming and inclusive

Date post added: 9th November 2020

“the king walked with the coffin of the dead soldier to Westminster Abbey…four bodies had been disinterred from the Western Front and one of them was chosen at random”

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Epitaph – Remembrance Sunday

Date post added: 8th November 2020

“And spring itself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we had gone”

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Barrister Tom’s short guide to the English legal system

Date post added: 7th November 2020

“this is the hub of legal activity in England”

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