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
Let’s go by bus
May 06, 2025
Bank Holidays – their history
May 05, 2025
Hidden London
May 04, 2025
The young woman who saved London Walks
May 03, 2025
So how might you have celebrated VE Day?
May 02, 2025
“Death is contagious; it’s contracted the moment we are conceived”
May 01, 2025
How would Keir Starmer like it if his family replaced him with a handsome young Siberian?
Apr 30, 2025
Odds & Ends and an Update on The Ultimate London Walk
Apr 23, 2025
The Four Specials on St George’s Day
Apr 21, 2025
Meet Your Guide – Andy Hotels Interview
Mar 28, 2025
The Monday Night Music History Club
Mar 27, 2025
Brilliant cross-examination. Verdict not in question.
Mar 25, 2025
“Where Soldiers are Shot”
Mar 24, 2025
The Ultimate London Walk
Mar 21, 2025
This is London
Mar 20, 2025
St Patrick’s Day & Conservation Architect
Mar 17, 2025
Regency London – the Bankside
Mar 14, 2025
Regency London
Mar 12, 2025
The Captain’s House
Mar 08, 2025
Quotidian London
Mar 05, 2025
“putrescent in the nostrils of the nation”
Mar 04, 2025
Famous London couple – their double suicide
Mar 03, 2025
“Winston Churchill’s steering gear is too weak for his horse-power”
Mar 01, 2025
Cat Tales & Weather Goodies (Baddies, actually)
Feb 28, 2025
“31 on ’em killed in a row”
Feb 26, 2025
350,000 London millionaires
Feb 25, 2025
Hanged by a silken rope and 706 men seen off by one woman
Feb 24, 2025
“Make Victorian Britain Great Again”
Feb 24, 2025
Protein Man, Little Turkey, Invasion, Spy, Camden Town & Economics 101
Feb 22, 2025
Streateries, Statuecide, Shanghai Grip, Disinformation Space…
Feb 21, 2025
Guide Richard Walker gets Jack the Ripper & Frederich Engels in his sights
Feb 18, 2025
The Chimes of Big Ben
Feb 17, 2025
February 15, 1925, flower girls & a monster fish
Feb 15, 2025
London Walks Valentines Day – Poem, History & Walk
Feb 14, 2025
Leprosy & the poshest neighbourhood in London
Feb 12, 2025
White slavery in London
Feb 09, 2025
Hampstead Spies Weekend
Feb 08, 2025
Curtain going up on Ann’s Cat Tails walk
Feb 03, 2025
Oscar Wilde: “the tyranny of want”
Jan 19, 2025
A to Z of London Walks
Jan 17, 2025
Bloomsbury Creepy Crawlies – the Gilded Vectors of Disease
Jan 06, 2025
“The Mystery Deepens”
Jan 05, 2025
Today’s Kensington Walk – How We Neutralise the Cold Weather
Jan 04, 2025
“A pearl through burnt glass”
Jan 03, 2025
RIP the man who gave us the West End of London
Jan 02, 2025
“No words can express the secret agony of my soul”
Jan 01, 2025
“There is nothing in London that is not curious”
Dec 31, 2024
Interview with legendary London Walks guide, actor Shaughan Seymour
Dec 11, 2024
The Dalston Outrage
Dec 06, 2024
Sir Henry Tate – In Memoriam
Dec 05, 2024
Dan Parry on the Golden Age of Piracy
Dec 04, 2024
A FOODIES WALKS HISTORICAL FEAST – THE TURKEY
Dec 03, 2024
A new Christmas walk & a weird coincidence
Dec 02, 2024
The U-boat moored alongside the House of Commons
Dec 02, 2024
Richard Walker guiding his VIP, high-end Jack the Ripper Tour
Dec 01, 2024
Sam talking about his gem of a new walk
Nov 30, 2024
Death of a hate figure
Nov 29, 2024
Charles Darwin and Jack the Ripper
Nov 28, 2024
Parliamentary Cat of the Year and other Cat Tails from Ann
Nov 26, 2024
Shaughan’s Witty Spoof at the London Walks Guides’ Party
Nov 26, 2024
Parakeets perching on the heads of our Kensington walkers…
Nov 25, 2024
The Boss guides St Paul’s (that voice – the epitome of clarity)
Nov 23, 2024
London on November 11th, 1918
Nov 11, 2024
Meet the Mayor
Nov 10, 2024
“What inexhaustible food for speculation the streets of London afford”
Nov 09, 2024
In the presence of guiding greatness…
Nov 08, 2024
“Where are the naughty people buried?”
Nov 07, 2024
Trailer for Ann’s William Morris Walk
Nov 05, 2024
Let’s meet a stalwart London Walker: Harvard U. Professor Tom U.
Nov 05, 2024
The Killer Clock
Nov 04, 2024
Ripperologist Richard Walker investigates – the shawl, DNA evidence, eye-witness evidence
Nov 03, 2024
My favourite interview (because I learned so much) – meet our new guide, Dr Ann
Nov 02, 2024
Halloween and Guy Fawkes
Nov 01, 2024
“We always have our door open, even when it’s freezing”
Oct 30, 2024
Why was Sir Walter Raleigh Beheaded? And the Gatehouse that’s there Today.
Oct 30, 2024
Behold the head of a traitor
Oct 29, 2024
“The sound of Big Ben was my first memory in life”
Oct 28, 2024
O jogo bonito
Oct 26, 2024
Happy Birthday Private Eye
Oct 25, 2024
The Glamour of Evil – the Krays & Gangland East London
Oct 24, 2024
Local London, Londoners’ London
Oct 23, 2024
Pinnacles begirt with lavatory seats like ill-fitting collars
Oct 22, 2024
“The term psychopath caught on in 1888”
Oct 21, 2024
This morning’s Sunday Times – they’ve done a story on Hampstead Spies Guide Stewart Purvis’s new book
Oct 20, 2024
The Cheddar Man of Naked Boy Court
Oct 19, 2024
“Trevor Nunn and I shared some kisses behind the dustbin”
Oct 18, 2024
The Lion in the Church
Oct 17, 2024
Picasso, Wodehouse, the Head Hunters of Borneo
Oct 16, 2024
“What kind of a world was it that gave us this monster?”
Oct 11, 2024
Larger than life – our most entertaining guide
Oct 05, 2024
Meet Your Guide – “The World’s Greatest Guide”
Oct 02, 2024
All the Latest Cat News – Advancer for Ann’s Cat Tails Walk
Sep 28, 2024
London 1902-1916 – Seedbed of the Russian Revolution
Sep 20, 2024
Meet your guide – Geologist Ruth
Sep 14, 2024
Dark breaks to dawn
Sep 13, 2024
Let’s do some stories
Sep 09, 2024
Knight President of the Knights of the Round Table
Sep 07, 2024
Weekend Specials – A Festival of Walks
Sep 06, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 15 – London “catacombs”
Sep 05, 2024
Cat Tales – feline goings on latest
Sep 04, 2024
Jon Klein – English guitarist, artist & filmmaker
Sep 03, 2024
The world’s worst gambler
Sep 02, 2024
Information-rich guiding
Sep 01, 2024
“Do you want to come in?”
Aug 31, 2024
Death pledge, Bob Dylan & Lèse-majesté
Aug 30, 2024
Stabbed!
Aug 29, 2024
Meet some London Walkers
Aug 28, 2024
The oldest creature on earth, Queen Elizabeth’s Jewish ancestry & London place names
Aug 26, 2024
St Giles-in-the-Fields (topped up with coffee, mortgage, leprosy, gallows & the Plague)
Aug 26, 2024
The tsunami, Queen Elizabeth II & the Prophet Mohammed, and the most colourful buildings in London
Aug 25, 2024
Larry Bridges
Aug 24, 2024
Outernet London
Aug 23, 2024
Meet your guide: here’s Molly
Aug 21, 2024
A Walk on the Beguiled Side
Aug 21, 2024
Meeting Kamala
Aug 20, 2024
Indiana Jones, the nastiest cat of all & wealthy west London
Aug 19, 2024
Giant
Aug 18, 2024
London
Aug 17, 2024
New walk – welcome to the feast
Aug 16, 2024
Americans in London (and beavers and the Great Fire)
Aug 15, 2024
Rake, Bigamist, Flitter-mouse & a Serving of Banksy
Aug 14, 2024
A saint, six kings & what makes the English tick
Aug 13, 2024
London was a barnyard
Aug 12, 2024
“Swarms of knaves on the lookout for the unwary”
Aug 11, 2024
Death of a courtier, eerie squeak & Rene Zellweger
Aug 10, 2024
Female sexuality, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare & Infinite Accumulation
Aug 09, 2024
10 – perfect score for our new walk
Aug 08, 2024
Behind the scenes at London Walks – Meet Niamh
Aug 07, 2024
Another Ann Soupçon – William Morris & Cats
Aug 06, 2024
The Riots
Aug 05, 2024
Worst since the Black Death
Aug 04, 2024
“The lamps are going out all over Europe”
Aug 03, 2024
Architecture, morbid obesity & this weekend’s specials
Aug 02, 2024
More purrfection from Ann – latest cat news
Aug 01, 2024
The day nobody dies, Soho deli, Queen Anne & Chinese foot-binding unbound
Jul 31, 2024
Keir Starmer’s hood, cagmag & the World Cup
Jul 30, 2024
Kew Gardens, prison, theatricality, slavery
Jul 29, 2024
Sticking it to Johnny Frenchman, Henry VIII, Beatrix Potter, Frankenstein & where “she” lived and died
Jul 28, 2024
Feminist Jack the Ripper Walk
Jul 27, 2024
I spy with my little eye
Jul 26, 2024
Birthday Special – Dickens’ white-hot genius
Jul 25, 2024
Royal Gossip, etc.
Jul 24, 2024
London Plane Trees, Pubs & Legless Birds
Jul 23, 2024
John Lennon, the Pillory, Small is Beautiful
Jul 22, 2024
The Latest Cat News in 2024
Jul 21, 2024
Pirates, Press Gangs & Execution Dock (and for good measure, the moon)
Jul 20, 2024
Waterloo. And that is what is called patriotism? Voting over here. Loos in 1851.
Jul 09, 2024
Wimbledon Tennis, Rock Stars, 999, Bicycling to Australia
Jul 02, 2024
Tabloid truth, 007 & ‘soft power’, the Goddess & St Paul’s
Jun 29, 2024
Billionaires’ Row, John Lennon’s Killer, St Paul’s, Wellington’s Tomb
Jun 28, 2024
Hidden in Plain Sight in St Paul’s – Some Great Outtakes
Jun 25, 2024
Billionaires’ Row
Jun 08, 2024
The numbers tell the tale
Jun 01, 2024
Terminating with extreme prejudice in Victorian times
May 31, 2024
William III, James II and “the curse and pest of Europe”
May 23, 2024
The May 21, 2024 London Walks Podcast – Kensington Palace & William III
May 21, 2024
Guide Isobel guides “a smart Georgian suburb” (plus ‘Manhattan on Thames’ and Phwoar! Rupert Murdoch and his 29-year-old Chinese squeeze)
May 11, 2024
Interview with legendary London Walks guide Simon Law
May 08, 2024
Trafalgar Square Redux 14 – Famous People Who Lived in Trafalgar Square (plus Dawn Chorus & Karl Marx)
May 04, 2024
Ann’s cats round-up, James Bond’s drinks round-up & old fashioned voting
May 03, 2024
My American accent, what Goliath met up with and what happened to the runaway horses
May 01, 2024
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