London Walks Podcasts


Today (August 29) in London History – “our Lord is a shoving leopard”

Date post added: 30th August 2022

“three cheers for our queer old Dean”

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Today (August 30) in London History – The Miser

Date post added: 29th August 2022

“that’d be about 75 million pounds in today’s money”

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Today (August 28) in London History – Locusts!

Date post added: 27th August 2022

“London was abuzz about insects”

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Today (August 27) in London History – the book burning

Date post added: 26th August 2022

“a seasonable show of dying”

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Today (August 26) in London History – the jeep that sailed across the Atlantic

Date post added: 25th August 2022

The jeep that sailed across the Atlantic ocean took to the road and drove up to London on August 26, 1951. This Today in London History podcast tells the tale. TRANSCRIPT London calling. London Walks connecting. London Walks here with your daily London fix. Story time. History time. We’ve seen it before, we’ll see it […]

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Today (August 25) in London History – the first commercial, passenger flight to Paris

Date post added: 25th August 2022

Full capacity was sixteen passengers, fourteen inside and two outside.

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Today (August 24) in London History – Chatterton’s “suicide”

Date post added: 23rd August 2022

The conception moment for Romanticism took place on this day, August 24th, 1770. This Today in London History podcast tells the tale. TRANSCRIPT London calling. London Walks connecting. London Walks here with your daily London fix. Story time. History time. It’s one of the great sob stories in English Literature. But it ain’t true. I’m […]

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Today (August 23) in London History – the first head on London Bridge

Date post added: 23rd August 2022

he was pelted with garbage and dung – the Twitter of his day

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Today (August 22) in London History – London’s forgotten sculptor

Date post added: 22nd August 2022

“the king knighted him on the spot”

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Today (August 21) in London History – the day of days in London theatre history

Date post added: 21st August 2022

“they were in a race to introduce actresses on the London stage”

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