Ladies Who London
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Join us, Alex and Fiona, as we take a light look at London's history in a relaxed and entertaining way. As qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guides, we share our passion for the city with you in a chatty and fun podcast, looking at the weird, wonderful and unknown in this huge, ancient place we call home.
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Ep 208 Havering;* the end?
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Ep 207 Hillingdon - a hotbed of international intrique
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Ep 206 - Clowning around
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Ep 205 Harrow: Gilbert and Paul at Grim's Dyke
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Ep 204 Ceremonial City life, in all it's bonkers glory.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Ep 203: Haringey - A magic movie moment, all done with kindness
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Ep 202 The bells, the bells - Big Town Tinnitus
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Ep 201 Hammersmith & Fulham: Imre Kiralfy Rescues the Olympics
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Ep 200: Celebrating 200 with a crazy quiz and a special guest
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Ep 199 Hackney: More Light, More Power, More Aerial Silks
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Ep 198: Walking and talking - Refugee Tales with Anna Sayburn Lane
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Ep 197 Glorious Greenwich: a tale of two shipies
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Ep 196 Hip hip hooray for National Hat Day!
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Ep 195 Enfield - Dedication. Norris McWhirter, small arms, llamas and a tank called Julian
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Ep 194 Merry Christmas live at the Tap
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Ep 193 Industrious Ealing: Beavers gotta beave
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Ep 192: Lilian Bader and women of colour in World War Two
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Ep 191: Classic crime in Croydon
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Ep 190 Life lessons from Historical Women with very special guest Eleanor Morton
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Ep 189 Camden cures all featuring Elizabeth Garett Anderson
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Ep 188 The British Empire Exhibition - Baffling displays back in Brent
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Ep 187 Brilliant Bexley - Crossness pumping the poop
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Ep 186 with a VERY special guest and some spooky South London goings on.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Ep 185 Brent, Tommy Flowers and the colossal impact of Dollis Hill
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Ep 184: Fanny Eaton, Overlooked Pre-Raphaelite Muse
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Ep 183 Bromley - Margaret Finch, Queen of the Gypsies
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Ep 182 Barebones Barbon - The Fetter Lane dynasty
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Ep 181 Project 32 The Battle of Barnet
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Ep 180 Degas's Miss Lala
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Ep 179 Launching Project 32 - Barking and Dagenham
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Ep 178 - London's Gas Lamp lighters - putting the spark into the dark
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Ep 177 - Goddess Isis and Mama Thames - a duo of damp deities
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Ep 176 - How to lose the World Cup
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Ep 175 - fish, chips, gooseberries & mulberries - a D-Day special
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Ep 173 - Mary Wortley Montague, mother's marvellous medicine
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May 30, 2024 |
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Ep 173 - Dido Belle - society and slavery
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May 22, 2024 |
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Ep 172 - Operation Umbrella - Over, under, through
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May 14, 2024 |
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Ep 171 - Emma Hamilton - rags to riches & maid to mistress, the story you never knew
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May 07, 2024 |
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Ep 170 - A mad medley of Montagus
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May 02, 2024 |
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Ep 169 - the mysterious disappearance of Elizabeth Canning
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Ep 168 - Titus Oates conspiracy - fantasy or fact?
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Ep 167 - Chevalier d'Eon - the gender-fluid spy who defied the King of France
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Ep 166 - Livery? I hardly know her. Loving cups, demi-virgins and zoomers.
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Ep 165 - LWL LIVE! Mary Davies with Leo Hollis
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Ep 164 - Women of Whitechapel - reframing the narrative
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Ep 163 - 200 years of the RNLI - Women of the RNLI
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Ep 162 - International Women's Day - Bella Burge, Mary Somerville & Ada Coleman
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Ep 161 - Elizabeth Fry, the angel of Newgate
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Ep 160 - How to buy London Bridge
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Ep 159 - The Great Exhibition - Anyone for a Tempest Prognosticator?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Ep 158 - 'Ere be dragons
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Ep 157 - Dorothy Lawrence, the sapper that nobody wanted.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Ep 156 - Kit Cavanagh with guest Emily Laurence Baker.
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Ep 155 - Marvellous Moll King - ground-breaking, rule-breaking, law-breaking!
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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UPDATE - Live recording
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Ep 154 - A London Engagement - redundant red phone boxes and cheeky cherubs
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Ep 153 - Going Postal - Willliam Reginald Bray and his perplexing parcels
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Ep 152 - Christmaaaaaas! With special guest Lee Ingleby
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Ep 151 - War Bus - battle buses and charismatic clippies
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Ep 150 - black cabs - hop in, let's go!
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Ep 149 - Howard Florey, Norman Heatley and a wonder drug - the penicillin partnership
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Ep 148 - Halloween - The gruesome story of Joseph Sellis
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Ep 147 - Tart Hall - Who would live in a house like this?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Ep 146 - The Boy Jack - the knickers nicker
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Ep 145 - Piccadilly! Performance and pain, people and pleasure
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Ladies Who London announcement
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Ep 144 - Sarah Siddons, superstar of the stage and statue success story!
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Ep 143 - Eliza Acton & Mrs Beeton - battle of the bakers
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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BONUS - Matchgirls extra!
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Ep 142 - Evelyn de Morgan - golden girl and ground-breaker
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Ep 141 - Colonel Blood, professional traitor!
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Ep 140 - Cato Street Conspiracy - treason and terror
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May 30, 2023 |
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Ep 139 - Robert Hooke, a problematic polymath
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May 24, 2023 |
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Ep 138 - Downfall of a Queen - the end of Anne Boleyn
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May 16, 2023 |
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Ep 137 - Making Merry Music - London's music history
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May 09, 2023 |
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Ep 136 - Demystifying the coronation - pomp and ceremony and what it means
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May 05, 2023 |
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Ep 135 - Royal Bling - inside the secret treasure chest
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Ep 134 - Amy Johnson, Queen of the Air
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Ep 133 - Moll Cutpurse or Mary Frith - Whipster, wild woman and one-of-a-kind
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Ep 132 The Big City, with Guests Liz Scott and David Hepher
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Ep 131 - Pancakes at the Guildhall
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Ep 130 - Endell Street Hospital - a hospital with a heart - with guest Katie Wignall of Look Up London
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Ep 129 - NEW CO-HOST! And theatre licensing - the anti-boob brigade
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Ep 128 - Dick Whittington - the man, the myth, the legend. With guest Simon Whitehouse
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Ep 127 - The little wartime library - books and bombings in Bethnal Green - with author Kate Thompson
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Ep 126 - Saxon London, the secret Saxon city, with guest Fiona Lukas
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Ep 125 - Executions! With guest, curator Beverley Cook
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Ep 124 - John Wilkes - radical, raunchy and revolutionary
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Ep 123 - Winchester Geese and the Crossbones Graveyard - sex and sin in Southwark
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Ep 122 - Emily's Farewell
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Ep 121 - Tate Modern Turbine Hall - big ideas in a huge space
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Ep 120 - Kensington - Queen Caroline of Ansbach; sexy, savvy and scheming!
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Ep 119 - Bermondsey - Octavia Hill, nature and nurture
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Ep 118 - Christmas special, a Dickensian Christmas
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Ep 117 - Thames - the 1928 flood, when London sank
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Ep 116 - Smithfield - Bartholomew's Fair; monks, markets and mayhem
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Ep 115 - Euston - Wellcome, medical marvels and the medicine man
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Ep 114 - Shoreditch - Child of the Jago, poor Dicky Perrott
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Ep 113 - Simpsons and Simpsons - chop houses and chess
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Ep 112 - Weirdest jobs in history - gong farmers, whipping boys and knocker uppers
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Ep 111 - Wapping - Ragged schools; poverty and philanthropy
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Ep 110 - Halloween special - murders and mayhem
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Ep 109 - Soho - Kate Meyrick, a subversive Soho siren
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Ep 108 - Fitzrovia - the Berner's street hoax - mutton and mischief
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Ep 107 - Kew - Kew Palace, a little place with a big history.
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Ep 106 - Russell Square - Great Ormond Street hospital, magic and medicine
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Ep 105 - Soho - John Snow and the Broad St pump - cholera and confusion
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Ep 104 - Kensington - Peter the Wild Boy, feral or frightened?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Ep 103 - Stoke Newington - Abney Park and Frank Bostock, lion tamer extraordinaire!
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Ep 102 - Westminster - Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a woman with a purpose
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Ep 101 - Trafalgar Square - the 4th plinth project. Is it The End?!
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Ep 100 - the centenary!
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Ep 99 - Wimbledon - Jean Borotra; a heroic castle escape.
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Ep 98 - Westminster - Bouddicca, battle-scarred and revenge-hungry
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Ep 97 - Pimlico - the 19thc garrotting panic - a choke-hold on London
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Ep 96 - Battersea Power Station - local landmark, rock royalty, pricey pads!
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Ep 95 - Elephant & Castle - the Forty Elephants, a study in glamorous violence.
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Ep 94 - Richmond - Ham House, an idyllic little place to plot
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Ep 93 - Kings Cross - Foundling hospital and Thomas Coram - heartbreak and hope in Georgian London
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Ep 92 - Crystal Palace - the...err...Crystal Palace!
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Ep 91 - Waterloo - James Barry
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Ep 90 - Deptford - the Golden Hinde, high jinks on the high seas
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Ep 89 - Jubilee special - when coronations bite back!
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Ep 88 - Belgravia - Sophia Duleep Singh
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May 25, 2022 |
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Ep 87 - Bermondsey - Peek Frean biscuit factory, crumbs and custard creams
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May 18, 2022 |
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Intermission!
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May 17, 2022 |
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Ep 86 - Aldwych - The Enon Chapel Scandal, or when we danced on the dead.
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May 10, 2022 |
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Ep 85 - St James - Tudor eating habits - you are what you eat.
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May 03, 2022 |
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Ep 84 - Westminster - The Royal Aquarium, daring dives and dead whales
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Ep 83 - Vauxhall - Pleasure Gardens; debauchery and delicacies in Georgian London
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Ep 82 - Smithfield - Bodysnatching - James May and John Bishop in burking shock!
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Ep 80 - Fulham - Jill Craigie, to be a woman
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Ep 80 - Covent Garden - Thomas Boulton & Frederick Park, other ladies who London-ned
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Ep 79 - Pimlico; Barbara Hepworth - the wonderful woman of waves
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Ep 78 - Delving deep with special guest Lara Maiklem, author and mudlarker
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Ep 77 - Westminster - Aphra Benn; scandal, spy and scribe
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Ep 76 - North London - Alexandra Palace; burning, broadcasts, and balloons!
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Ep 75 - Mayfair - Down Street abandoned tube station with Siddy Holloway, the secret WW2 bunker
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Ep 74 - Soho (kinda!) - Caravan club, a 'sink of iniquity' in gay London
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Ep 73 - London Bridge - The Old Operating Theatre; hope and fear in a secret attic
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Ep 72 - Tower Hill - the Koh I Noor Diamond; empire and emotions
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Ep 71 - Piccadilly - Frank Pick, the mastermind you never knew you needed
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Ep 70 SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE - Save London's gas lamps!
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Ep 69 - St James - Chocolate houses; tantalising, tasty treats
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Ep 68 - Lincoln’s Inn - Beggar’s Opera - snark, satire and sauciness
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Ep 67 - Spitalfields - Banglatown, where London meets the world
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Ep 65 - End of year roundup
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Ep 65 - Christmas episode
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Ep 64 - Soho - Tallulah Bankhead, sex, scandal and salaciousness on stage
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Ep 63 - Whitehall - Pocahontas, the tragic true story
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Ep 62 - Royal Docks - Silvertown explosion, a dynamite tale
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Ep 61 - Piccadilly - Hatchards and literary London - book boltholes in the capital.
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Ep 60 - Covent Garden - Dick Turpin, the legendary swashbuckling highwayman
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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ep 59 - Fleet Street - Twinings tea, the top of the tree for tea
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Ep 58 - Halloweeeeeen! Bouncing demons and grisly murders
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Ep 57 - Omoba Aina aka Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria's black goddaughter
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Ep 56 - Rotherhithe - Prince Lee Boo & Omai, from far flung lands to London life
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Ep 55 - Lambeth - Lucy Houston and the Spitfire Sisters
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Ep 54 - River Thames - SS Great Eastern, the steel leviathan
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Ep 53 - Soho - Windmill Theatre, a riot of bare breasts and bombings
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Ep 52 - 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Ep 51 - Bloomsbury - Russell Hotel, a titanic development
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Ep 50 - St James - Elizabethan Sumptuary laws, when it was illegal to look *this* good
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Ep 49 - Bank - Beefsteak club, an odyssey of Britishness and silly hats
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Ep 48 - Covent Garden - Margot Fonteyn, pirouettes and politics
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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ep 47 - Wapping - Thames tunnel; banquets, bravery and Brunel
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Ep 46 - Mayfair - Georgian sex bomb Kitty Fisher
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Ep 45 - Hyde Park - Jack Sheppard, Jailbreaker extraordinaire
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Ep 44 - Bloomsbury - Noor Inayat Khan, Spy Princess
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Ep 43 - Southbank - Festival of Britain, London's biggest party
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Ep 42 - Waterloo - Necropolis Railway, London's death rail
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Ep 41 - Clerkenwell - Prison explosion, a high risk plot
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Ep 40 - Clerkenwell - London's Secret Mail Rail, secret tunnels keeping the city running
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Ep 39 - Kensington - Beatrix Potter, a literary menagerie
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Ep 38 - Kensington - Isabella Lucy Bird, independent adventurer
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Ep 37 - Fleet Street - Dr Samuel Johnson, multifaceted man
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Ep 36 - Whitechapel - Whitechapel Bell Foundry, London's famous bells
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May 25, 2021 |
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Ep 35 - Soho - Denmark Street, rock n roll history
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May 19, 2021 |
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Ep 34 - Embankment - Somerset House & Waterloo Bridge, the ladies' bridge
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May 11, 2021 |
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Ep 33 - Lambeth - Charlie Chaplin, icon and risk taker
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May 05, 2021 |
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Ep 32 - Green Park - Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, the tragic toast of the town
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Ep 31 - Mayfair - Norman Hartnell, how to dress a Queen
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Ep 30 - Trafalgar Sq, Angela Burdett-Coutts, mould breaker and icon
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Ep 29 -Mayfair (kinda!) - The Great Smog of 1952, London's dark threat
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Ep 28 - Greenwich - John Harrison & Greenwich, time and tide
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Ep27 - Bankside - Ellen Terry, glamour and glitz
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Ep 26 - Liverpool St / Shoreditch - Bedlam, melancholy and madness
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Ep 25 - Bloomsbury - Virginia Woolf, literature's tortured soul
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Ep 24 - Whitechapel - Joseph Merrick, the 'elephant man'
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Ep 23 - Chelsea Physic Garden, a garden to kill or cure
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Ep 22 - St James - James Graham & The Celestial Bed, the Georgian sex aid!
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Ep 21 - Leicester Square- Dome of Wonders, designed to amaze
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Ep 20 - Bloomsbury (again!) - The Sutton Hoo treasure, Vikings and ghosts
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Ep 19 - Bloomsbury - Charles Darwin, controversy and conviction
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Ep 18 - Clerkenwell - Amelia Edwards, a force to be reckoned with
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Ep 17 - Bermondsey Leather Trade, foul wind and fair
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Ep 16 - Bow - The Match Girls' Strike, power to the people
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Ep 15 - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Ep 14 - River Thames - Frost Fairs, London's coolest winter fun
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Ep 13 - Westminster - Operation Mincemeat, an audacious plot
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Ep 12 - Southwark - the 1212 fire, London's *other* great fire.
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Ep 11 - Waterloo - Florence Nightingale & Mary Seacole, women who changed the world
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Ep 10 - Mayfair - The May Fair, debauchery and decapitated puppets
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Ep 9 - Fleet Street - Hidden Rivers, the labyrinth beneath your feet
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Ep 8 - Westminster (again!) - Guy Fawkes & the Gunpowder Plot, subterfuge and intrigue
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Ep 7 - Halloween special with special guest Lee Ingleby
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Ep 6 - Westminster - Black Londoners, beloved Georgian buskers
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Ep 5 - Rotherhithe - The Salter Family, a lasting legacy
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Ep 4 - Kensington - Ada Lovelace, the mother of computing
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Ep 3 - Wapping - Captain William Bligh, Mutiny on the Bounty
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Ep 2 - Covent Garden - The London Beer Flood, a barrel-bursting thrill ride
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Ladies Who London - Episode1- Intro
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Sep 14, 2020 |