London Walks Podcasts


Circumcision, Moustaches, Premature Burial & the British Empire – Go Figure

Date post added: 14th September 2023

Jeeves described Bertie’s moustache as ‘a dark stain, like mulligatawny soup.’

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September 9, 1776 – the day the United States of America became the United States of America: what happened in London?

Date post added: 8th September 2023

“the melancholy procession to the gallows”

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A great American reporter describes the first day of the mass air attacks on London

Date post added: 7th September 2023

“the searchlights looked like long pillars supporting a black canopy”

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The anniversary of the first Jack the Ripper murder – the crime scene revisited

Date post added: 30th August 2023

“a slaughterhouse stood directly over the way from where Polly Nichols was slaughtered”

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Bank Holiday Monday Potpourri

Date post added: 28th August 2023

“he made a serious attempt to teach his pet poodle how to read”

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Washington DC burns down, Londoners read about a mermaid

Date post added: 24th August 2023

Let’s let DC burn, let’s go a mermaid-ing…

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What’s special about the Mrs Dalloway’s London Walk

Date post added: 22nd August 2023

the walk is a reconstruction of the London of 1923

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The start-the-week specials. And some London history.

Date post added: 21st August 2023

“that photograph of the Duke of York with his arm round a 17-year-old American girl”

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Rough, ready, riotous, raunchy upper class London – fasten your seat belts

Date post added: 19th August 2023

“he pissed on the populace – it provoked a riot”

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“Right in the centre and swim of things” – Early August in London

Date post added: 4th August 2023

I’ll take the English version every time.

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