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London Walks

London Walks is the oldest urban walking tour company on the planet. It’s the gold standard of this profession, this craft. Here you can listen to our guides' stories and anecdotes of London.

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Yesterday · 14 min
The Day English Cricket Died
When Australia beat England at The Oval in 1882, a cheeky newspaper obituary pronounced English cricket dead and gave the world the Ashes.
Thursday · 12 min
The Man Who Saved St Pancras
John Betjeman loved the London other people wanted to demolish, and when the wreckers came for St Pancras, the poet stood in their way
Wednesday · 12 min
Naked, German & Going for Gold in King’s Cross
Long before the Olympic flame reached London, a German gymnasium in King’s Cross was limbering up, stripping off and helping to set the modern Games in motion.
Tuesday · 12 min
The Prince Who Turned a Lamp White
Anniversary of Prince Alberts birth. His death left Queen Victoria inconsolable, changed the colour of a London police lamp and left a remarkable trail through the capital.
Monday · 16 min
The Death of Chatterton: The Dead Poet Who Wasn’t There
The dead poet is George Meredith, the garret is in Gray’s Inn, and the painter is about to run away with his model’s wife.
Sunday · 9 min
The Night London Learned a New Word
A navigational error. Nine Londoners dead. Edward R. Murrow at his microphone in Trafalgar Square. And the night the Blitz began.
August 22 · 9 min
The Oxford Don, the Railway Laureate and Learning England
The railway laureate, an Oxford don, a baby, and infantry...
August 22 · 7 min
The Man Who Painted Joy
The more you know about Fragonard, the more beautiful The Swing becomes.
August 21 · 10 min
Constant Lambert: Brilliant, Bohemian, Burnt Out
Constant Lambert had wit, genius, glamour, appetite and almost no instinct whatsoever for self-preservation.
August 20 · 13 min
Moon Over Covent Garden
One outrageous evening in Covent Garden tells you almost everything you need to know about Restoration London.
August 19 · 12 min
Phyllida Law: She Was Some Kind of Woman
Phyllida Law – Ave atque vale
August 18 · 14 min
Why London’s Railway Story Begins in Canada
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.
August 16 · 16 min
Æthelstan – The King Who Invented England
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.
August 16 · 10 min
Andrew Marvell – Sex, Time & London
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.
August 15 · 13 min
David Low –The Hampstead Cartoonist Hitler Wanted Arrested
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.
August 14 · 18 min
August 14th – The Day the Chiefs Died
Less British Museum and more life
August 13 · 20 min
How Many Strangers Do You See in a Day in London?
Strangers in London: for a few seconds their paths cross on a Tube escalator, then they disappear into the city.
August 12 · 16 min
William Blake: The Londoner Who Saw Angels and Talked to the Dead
The dead got into him. Old London got into him.
August 10 · 13 min
Lee Miller – From Vogue to Dachau to Hitler’s Bathtub
The woman who put the dirt of Dachau on Hitler’s bathmat.
August 10 · 9 min
The 200 Bodies on Everest… and the 250 in Arizona
The people in those vessels are not called bodies. They’re called patients.

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