London Walks Podcasts


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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The Man Who Painted Joy

Date post added: 22nd August 2026

The more you know about Fragonard, the more beautiful The Swing becomes.

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Constant Lambert: Brilliant, Bohemian, Burnt Out

Date post added: 21st August 2026

Constant Lambert had wit, genius, glamour, appetite and almost no instinct whatsoever for self-preservation.

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Moon Over Covent Garden

Date post added: 20th August 2026

One outrageous evening in Covent Garden tells you almost everything you need to know about Restoration London.

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Phyllida Law: She Was Some Kind of Woman

Date post added: 19th August 2026

Phyllida Law – Ave atque vale

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Why London’s Railway Story Begins in Canada

Date post added: 18th August 2026

Before the first train steamed into London, its story had begun on a remote island in Lake Huron, with an eighteen-year-old soldier building a fort in the Canadian wilderness.

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Æthelstan – The King Who Invented England

Date post added: 16th August 2026

A house in Kensington and the story of Æthelstan, the warrior king who, 1,100 years ago, forged a kingdom and became the first ruler of all England.

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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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