London Walks

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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.

Episode Date
What makes a great walking tour – the Kensington Walk
Apr 27, 2024
Sundries & Update on ITN Editor Stewart Purvis’s Spies of Hampstead Walk
Apr 26, 2024
Byron, Super Collision, New Walks & Getting Away from the Marathon
Apr 20, 2024
Come together, right now over me – Adam on the Abbey Road crosswalk
Apr 19, 2024
Go figure!
Apr 18, 2024
Hyrox, Cats & Happy 643rd Birthday!
Apr 17, 2024
Best local knowledge ever & why Brits drive on the left
Apr 16, 2024
Au pairs, driving on the wrong side of the road, cats, dogs & Brexit
Apr 15, 2024
The Big Bang Moment – Guide David’s first 90 minutes in London
Apr 14, 2024
Another (closing fast) sell-out and a taste of the Kensington Walk
Apr 13, 2024
Hampstead Spies* Summer Schedule *Guided by former ITN Editor Stewart Purvis CBE
Apr 12, 2024
Guiding a great London building
Apr 11, 2024
All the Cat News that’s Fit to Print
Apr 04, 2024
Sewers, saints & rats
Apr 03, 2024
“If you can look into the seeds of time”
Apr 02, 2024
1600 clocks, vaginal tautness, Wiry Sal
Mar 31, 2024
He wasn’t just murdered, he was tortured
Mar 29, 2024
Gossipy, foodie social history…
Mar 26, 2024
War is coming
Mar 23, 2024
Sex-crazed London, the Garrick Club exposé & the distinguished diplomat’s new walk
Mar 20, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 13 – the First Equestrian Statue in England
Mar 11, 2024
Mother’s Day – A Feel Good Podcast
Mar 10, 2024
Body Snatchers & a London Walks Customer Who Blew It
Mar 08, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 12 – the Statue Nobody Knows
Mar 06, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 11 – the keystone in the arch
Feb 29, 2024
Final Whistle Coming on His Rugby Tour – Rick Scores a Try
Feb 28, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 10 – the Quarterdeck
Feb 23, 2024
John is homeless (this podcast is dedicated to the memory of Alice)
Feb 21, 2024
New Yorker Says London’s Better
Feb 20, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 9 – The National Gallery
Feb 19, 2024
Sin City London
Feb 17, 2024
This strange, enigmatic and erotic painting
Feb 15, 2024
Valentine’s Day – Venus & Cupid
Feb 14, 2024
Foodies London in the City – Biscuits & Banquets
Feb 09, 2024
The Rugby Tour – to Accompany the Six Nations Tournament
Feb 08, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 8 – St Martin-in-the-Fields
Feb 06, 2024
Eight! New London Walks Coming on Stream
Feb 02, 2024
Charlie introduces his How the West End Was Won walk
Jan 30, 2024
Ann’s Introduction to the Old London Walk
Jan 29, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 7 – the National Gallery’s Foul Air Vents
Jan 28, 2024
Foodies, Spies, Jeeves – This Weekend’s (January 27-28) Specials
Jan 27, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 6 – George Washington
Jan 24, 2024
Urban Geology Tours Are Back!!!!
Jan 23, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 5 – Epilogue to an Empire
Jan 21, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 4 – the Reason Why
Jan 19, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 3 – “hidden in plain sight”
Jan 16, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 2 – the Death of Nelson
Jan 10, 2024
And This Makes Three, Giving Us a Clowder of Cat Podcasts
Jan 05, 2024
“Parliament should be emptied of politicians and filled with manure”
Jan 05, 2024
Ann on Cats – in Conjunction with her Cat Tails Walk
Jan 04, 2024
Trafalgar Square Unveiled
Jan 04, 2024
The Happy New Year London Walks Podcast
Jan 02, 2024
“Walk along the most beautiful stretch of the River Thames in London”
Dec 29, 2023
Preview of Saturday’s Jane Austen’s London Tours
Dec 22, 2023
The best Walks for Christmas shopping
Dec 16, 2023
Uncovering Roman London – Archaeologist Kevin Sifts Through the Evidence
Dec 14, 2023
Foodies London guide Ann sets the history of the Christmas Pudding alight
Dec 02, 2023
All About the Old Westminster Walk (spiced with Kissinger and Oscar Wilde)
Nov 30, 2023
My Fair Lady in Hampstead – Director’s Notes
Nov 26, 2023
Pickpockets & Partygate, Cats & Cafes
Nov 15, 2023
What shall we do after the walk? Got any suggestions?
Nov 09, 2023
The Week Ahead & Some Juicy Extras
Nov 06, 2023
A Retrospective – London Walks in 1980
Nov 03, 2023
London Weather
Oct 31, 2023
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Oct 28, 2023
A Potpourri – John Constable, the Great Pyramid, Rhyming Slang, Jackspeak, Gronk, Flag Football, Grandslam, Taboos, etc.
Oct 23, 2023
The Summit – Up on the Roof of London
Oct 17, 2023
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are approaching London’s poshest neighbourhood
Oct 14, 2023
The 1,000th London Walks Podcast
Oct 13, 2023
Purrrrrfect! Ann’s Cat Tails Walk Overture – A Feline Take on London History
Oct 10, 2023
Death Comes for the Poet
Oct 06, 2023
Cheese, Glorious Cheese – A Podcast about Ann’s Upcoming Foodies Walk
Oct 03, 2023
London Life, Language, Witches & a Wunderbar London Tip
Sep 30, 2023
Connecting the historical and literary dots on September 25
Sep 25, 2023
The Babington Plot – Don’t Listen If You’re Squeamish
Sep 19, 2023
Circumcision, Moustaches, Premature Burial & the British Empire – Go Figure
Sep 14, 2023
September 9, 1776 – the day the United States of America became the United States of America: what happened in London?
Sep 08, 2023
A great American reporter describes the first day of the mass air attacks on London
Sep 07, 2023
The anniversary of the first Jack the Ripper murder – the crime scene revisited
Aug 30, 2023
Bank Holiday Monday Potpourri
Aug 28, 2023
Washington DC burns down, Londoners read about a mermaid
Aug 24, 2023
What’s special about the Mrs Dalloway’s London Walk
Aug 22, 2023
The start-the-week specials. And some London history.
Aug 21, 2023
Rough, ready, riotous, raunchy upper class London – fasten your seat belts
Aug 19, 2023
“Right in the centre and swim of things” – Early August in London
Aug 04, 2023
August 2, 1858 – the high tide of imperialism
Aug 02, 2023
August 1, 1834 – the Abolition of Slavery
Aug 01, 2023
London Calling on Monday, July 31st – The Week Ahead
Jul 31, 2023
Just another day in the London Walks office – and a recommendation
Jul 30, 2023
Miaow! London History with a Difference
Jul 26, 2023
Guide David’s birthday – What happened in London on July 25th, 1946?
Jul 26, 2023
What happened in London on the day Machu Picchu was discovered?
Jul 25, 2023
A glorious gallimaufry of London perceptions
Jul 23, 2023
The American Civil War & the London War Correspondent
Jul 21, 2023
The V for Victory Sign and Jumbo the Dog
Jul 19, 2023
Something Different – Applying a Bit of Erudition to the Titan Tragedy
Jul 18, 2023
An orgy of violence in a tiny room, an inspection & baseball – July 17th, 1918
Jul 17, 2023
The Bomb and What Happened in London on July 16th, 1945
Jul 15, 2023
“Lions in the cockpit” – What Happened in London on July 15th, 1966
Jul 14, 2023
What Happened in London on Bastille Day?
Jul 14, 2023
Red Letter Day, July 13th – Mary goes to Buckingham Palace, the Same Day Queen Victoria First Crossed Its Threshold
Jul 13, 2023
Say Hello to the Bad Boy Band – What Happened in London on July 12, 1962
Jul 12, 2023
London Lights the Fuse that Leads to the Spanish Civil War – July 11th, 1936
Jul 11, 2023
Wimbledon Tennis History, Some London Walks News and that Advancer – London on July 10th
Jul 10, 2023
Vasectomy for the Nation, Exposing Himself, Red Shoes & Baby Pigeons – Welcome to London
Jul 08, 2023
Wall Street Crash, Prostitutes, Vicar, Eaten by a Lion – What Happened in London on July 8th, 1932
Jul 07, 2023
All Changed, Changed Utterly – What Happened in London on July 7th, 1898
Jul 07, 2023
Rabies & the Violation of Virgins – What Happened in London on July 6th, 1885?
Jul 06, 2023
Bikinis & Bombs, Tennis, Flogging & Snobbery – What Happened in London on July 5th, 1946
Jul 04, 2023
What happened in London on July 4th, 1776?
Jul 03, 2023
David’s Scoop: Mrs Dalloway’s London – Gotcha Virginia Woolf!
Jun 15, 2023
London Walks Recommendation for this Weekend
May 13, 2023
London Diary (April 11) – Sakura, Hanami, Dorothy
Apr 11, 2023
A London Diary (April 10) – the Photographer, the Pit of Shame
Apr 10, 2023
Easter Sunday 2023
Apr 09, 2023
Hitting the Jackpot on Mrs Dalloway’s London Walk
Mar 15, 2023
February 21 – Electrocuted
Feb 21, 2023
February 20 – it was like walking across the continental United States
Feb 20, 2023
February 19 – A death plus “sexy” gossip
Feb 19, 2023
February 18 – the poet, his grave, Highgate cemetery
Feb 18, 2023
February 17 – the poet, the London street, the great love poem (and for good measure, castration, impotence and sodomy)
Feb 17, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 16
Feb 16, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 15
Feb 14, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 14
Feb 13, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 13
Feb 12, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 12
Feb 11, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 11
Feb 10, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 10
Feb 09, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 9
Feb 08, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 8
Feb 07, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 7
Feb 06, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 6
Feb 05, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 5
Feb 04, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 4
Feb 03, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 3
Feb 02, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 2
Feb 01, 2023
London History Bulletin – February 1st
Jan 31, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 31
Jan 30, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 30
Jan 30, 2023
Jack the Ripper Dossier, XIX – the Macnaghten Memoranda
Jan 29, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 29
Jan 29, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 28
Jan 28, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 27
Jan 27, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 26
Jan 25, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 25
Jan 24, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 24
Jan 23, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 23
Jan 22, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 22
Jan 22, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 21
Jan 21, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 20
Jan 19, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 19
Jan 19, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 18
Jan 18, 2023
Jack the Ripper Dossier, XVIII – Leather Apron
Jan 17, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 17
Jan 17, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 16
Jan 16, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 15
Jan 14, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 14
Jan 13, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 13
Jan 13, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 12
Jan 11, 2023
Jack the Ripper Dossier, XVII – 1888, the Year of the Psychopath
Jan 11, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 11
Jan 11, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 10
Jan 09, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 9
Jan 08, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 8
Jan 08, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 7
Jan 06, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 6
Jan 05, 2023
Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XVI – So who was Jack the Ripper?
Jan 05, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 5
Jan 05, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 4
Jan 03, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 3
Jan 02, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 2
Jan 02, 2023
London History Bulletin – January 1
Jan 01, 2023
London History Bulletin – December 31
Dec 30, 2022
London History Bulletin – December 30
Dec 29, 2022
Today in London History Bulletin (December 29)
Dec 29, 2022
Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XV – the last victim
Dec 27, 2022
The Today in London History Bulletin (December 28)
Dec 27, 2022
The Today in London History Bulletin (December 27)
Dec 26, 2022
The Today in London History Bulletin (December 26)
Dec 26, 2022
Today (December 25) in London History – The Queen
Dec 25, 2022
The Christmas Bonus Podcast, Part II – A Dickens Masterpiece Read Professionally
Dec 24, 2022
Today (December 24) in London History – The Horniman
Dec 23, 2022
Today (December 23) in London History – Arctic on Thames
Dec 23, 2022
The Christmas Bonus Podcast, Part I – A Dickens Masterpiece Read Professionally
Dec 22, 2022
Today (December 22) in London History – Ming the Panda
Dec 21, 2022
Today (December 21) in London History – Guilty of blasphemy, God goes to prison
Dec 20, 2022
Today (December 20) in London History – Hampstead
Dec 19, 2022
Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XIV – “life changed when Kate was 13”
Dec 19, 2022
Today (December 19) in London History – A Christmas Carol
Dec 18, 2022
Today (December 18) in London History – Poet pummelled
Dec 17, 2022
Today (December 17) in London History – the Harrods bomb
Dec 16, 2022
Today (December 16) in London History – Famous Actor Murdered!
Dec 16, 2022
Today (December 15) in London History – Cat o’ nine tails
Dec 14, 2022
Today (December 14) in London History – sex, class, drugs, money, the cold war, race
Dec 13, 2022
Today (December 13) in London History – London, December 13, 1476
Dec 12, 2022
Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XIII – “her name was placed on the ‘Register of Shame'”
Dec 12, 2022
Today (December 12) in London History – Last Peer to be Tried by the House of Lords
Dec 12, 2022
Today (December 11) in London History – Abdication
Dec 11, 2022
Actor Nick Day explains pantomimes – yes, it’s a bonus podcast
Dec 09, 2022
Today (December 10) in London History – they felt a funeral in their brain
Dec 09, 2022
Today (December 9) in London History – Ugh & Oh, Bother
Dec 08, 2022
Today (December 8) in London History – the first English actress
Dec 07, 2022
Today (December 7) in London History – information that we needed and some that’s more than we needed
Dec 06, 2022
Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XII – Richard cross-examines the witnesses
Dec 06, 2022
Today (December 6) in London History – something completely new in Europe
Dec 06, 2022
Today (December 5) in London History – Worst Fog Ever
Dec 05, 2022
Today (December 4) in London History – A Great Newspaper is Born
Dec 03, 2022
Today (December 3) in London History – The Picture Ball
Dec 03, 2022
Today (December 2) in London History – RADA
Dec 01, 2022
Today (December 1) in London History – Stars & Stripes Day in London
Nov 30, 2022
Today (November 30) in London History – the Crystal Palace Conflagration
Nov 29, 2022
Today (November 29) in London History – Florence Nightingale
Nov 29, 2022
Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XI – Annie Chapman, the crime scene
Nov 28, 2022
Today (November 28) in London History – the greatest London poem
Nov 27, 2022
Today (November 27) in London History – Hanged for a Misdemeanour
Nov 27, 2022
Today (November 26) in London History – Gotcha!
Nov 26, 2022
Today (November 25) in London History – The Mousetrap
Nov 24, 2022
Today (November 24) in London History – Smithfield
Nov 23, 2022
Today (November 23) in London History – London in 1415
Nov 22, 2022
Today (November 22) in London’s History – I’ve come to take you to Hades
Nov 21, 2022
Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part X – Annie Chapman’s last days
Nov 21, 2022
Today (November 21) in London History – “the unfitness of men to be in charge”
Nov 21, 2022
Today (November 20) in London History – “the fierce light which beats upon a throne”
Nov 19, 2022
Today (November 19) in London History – Hero of Street & Trenches
Nov 18, 2022
Today (November 18) in London History –
Nov 17, 2022
Today (November 17) in London History – it was 1,750 years acoming
Nov 16, 2022
Today (November 16) in London History – Derring do at Harrods
Nov 15, 2022
Today (November 15) in London History – he committed adultery when he was 105
Nov 14, 2022
Jack the Ripper, Part IX – “her father cut his throat”
Nov 14, 2022
Today (November 14) in London History – First BBC Broadcast
Nov 14, 2022
Today (November 13) in London History – “the execution of the century”
Nov 12, 2022
Today (November 12) in London History – “our sandwiches were frozen solid”
Nov 12, 2022
Today (November 11) in London History – Armistice Day
Nov 11, 2022
Today (November 10) in London History – Joan Bull
Nov 10, 2022
Today (November 9) in London History – Restoration sex pest
Nov 08, 2022
Today (November 8) in London History – Lord Lucan
Nov 08, 2022
Jack the Ripper, Part VIII – “lace boots, all old and dirty”
Nov 07, 2022
Today (November 7) in London History – the last man hanged at Tyburn
Nov 06, 2022
Today (November 6) in London History – the aviary on Blackfriars Bridge
Nov 05, 2022
Today (November 5) in London History – Remember, remember the Guy
Nov 05, 2022
Today (November 4) in London History – the Fortnum & Mason clock
Nov 03, 2022
Today (November 3) in London History – the royal wedding nobody knows
Nov 02, 2022
Today (November 2) in London History – the most important moment in the 20th century
Nov 02, 2022
Jack the Ripper, Part VII – “a vampire, a werewolf or a ghost”
Nov 01, 2022
Today (November 1) in London History – what’s in a name?
Nov 01, 2022
Today (October 31) in London History – “we never closed”
Oct 31, 2022
Today (October 30) in London History – the Music Hall Girl, the German Baron, Sex and Death
Oct 29, 2022
Today (October 29) in London History – it’s the unseen that makes us see
Oct 28, 2022
Today (October 28) in London History – Joining the EEC
Oct 27, 2022
Today (October 27) in London History – those powdered eyebrows
Oct 26, 2022
Today (October 26) in London History – the Fatal Vespers
Oct 26, 2022
Jack the Ripper, Part VI – Lost in the Abyss
Oct 25, 2022
Today (October 25) in London History – Top Moment in English Theatrical History
Oct 24, 2022
Today (October 24) in London History – False Beggars, 1380
Oct 23, 2022
Today (October 23) in London History – dinner on top of Nelson’s column
Oct 22, 2022
Today (October 22) in London History – it made London the centre of the world
Oct 21, 2022
Today (October 21) in London History – Big Ben
Oct 20, 2022
Today (October 20) in London History – the Sunday Times
Oct 19, 2022
Today (October 19) in London History – The War of Jenkins’ Ear
Oct 18, 2022
Today (October 18) in London History – Kingsway & the Aldwych
Oct 17, 2022
Jack the Ripper, Part V – Slaughter in Buck’s Row
Oct 16, 2022
Today (October 17) in London History – the London Beer Flood
Oct 16, 2022
Today (October 16) in London History – Parliament burns down
Oct 15, 2022
Today (October 15) in London History – the most spectacular prison escape
Oct 14, 2022
Today (October 14) in London History – the largest airship in the world
Oct 13, 2022
Today (October 13) in London History – That Was Some Cat!
Oct 12, 2022
Today (October 12) in London History – Murder Mystery
Oct 11, 2022
Jack the Ripper, Part IV – the first two victims
Oct 10, 2022
Today (October 11) in London History – “a bloody good idea”
Oct 10, 2022
Today (October 10) in London History – the greatest fortune in London
Oct 09, 2022
Today (October 9) in London History – Payback time for the regicides
Oct 08, 2022
Today (October 8) in London History – the worst disaster in English railway history
Oct 07, 2022
Today (October 7) in London History – Vulgar, Foul-Mouthed London
Oct 06, 2022
Today (October 6) in London History – Americans locked up in the Tower of London
Oct 05, 2022
Today (October 5) in London History – “wild prodigies of wickedness”
Oct 04, 2022
Jack the Ripper, Part III – “People of the Abyss”
Oct 04, 2022
Today (October 4) in London History – No Pasaran
Oct 03, 2022
Today (October 3) in London History – The Russians Are Coming
Oct 03, 2022
Today (October 2) in London History – Huge explosion
Oct 01, 2022
Today (October 1) in London History – the finest railway station in Europe
Sep 30, 2022
Today (September 30) in London History – “peace for our time”
Sep 29, 2022
Bonus Podcast – the new Nell Gwyn walk!
Sep 29, 2022
Today (September 29) in London History – the New River
Sep 28, 2022
Today (September 28) in London History – Penicillin
Sep 27, 2022
The New Jack the Ripper Series – Chapter 2
Sep 26, 2022
Today (September 27) in London History – What’s in a name…
Sep 26, 2022
Today (September 26) in London History – a new ‘thrill’ for London
Sep 26, 2022
Today (September 25) in London History – an appointment with the dentist
Sep 24, 2022
Today (September 24) in London History – the American Embassy
Sep 23, 2022
Today (September 23) in London History – “Never knew that about London”
Sep 22, 2022
Today (September 22) in London History – A Man for All Seasons
Sep 21, 2022
Today (September 21) in London History – Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre in 1599
Sep 20, 2022
Jack the Ripper – Numero Uno in a New Podcast Series
Sep 20, 2022
Today (September 20) in London History – When a man is tired of London…
Sep 19, 2022
Today (September 19) in London History – in the springtime of the Queen’s reign
Sep 18, 2022
Today (September 18) in London History – a spectacular discovery
Sep 17, 2022
Today (September 17) in London History – St Paul’s Covent Garden & Pygmalion
Sep 16, 2022
Today (September 16) in London History – death of a pop star
Sep 15, 2022
Today (September 15) in London History – St. Paul’s Saved!
Sep 14, 2022
Today (September 14) in London History – the Royal Hospital
Sep 14, 2022