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Barnet: Blood, Battles and Bad Hair Days21 Oct 202600:14:36
A kingmaker killed in the fog. A fair that gave Cockneys a word for their hair. From bloody battlefields to ancient trees and world-changing ideas, Barnet is full of surprises.
Camden Town: Judith’s Home Turf20 Oct 202600:19:56
Meet Judith, veteran London Walks guide and Camden Town insider extraordinaire. She’s lived right above Inverness Street Market, in the thick of Camden Town, for half a century. Who better to show us round and tell us its stories?
Enfield: You Don’t Know the Half of It19 Oct 202600:11:35
Poets and palaces. Rifles and spies. The world’s first cash machine and a country house where German generals were secretly listened to. Welcome to Enfield, the London borough that’s full of surprises.
The Knock on the Door that Changed English Poetry19 Oct 202600:19:49
The young John Keats, a cottage on Hampstead Heath, and the remarkable Leigh Hunt, the poet, journalist and troublemaker who opened his door to some of the greatest literary talents of the age.
The Little Piece of Ely in London18 Oct 202600:12:34
Tucked away behind its gates, Ely Place is one of London’s strangest survivals, a little world of saints, bishops, strawberries, Tudor power and centuries-old privilege.
Tawdry17 Oct 202600:12:01
A seventh-century queen, two unconsummated marriages, an incorruptible body and a medieval fair. Meet St Audrey, the remarkable woman hiding inside the word “tawdry.”
A Brush with Fire16 Oct 202600:11:29
Parliament is burning, London is watching, and out on the Thames Turner is turning catastrophe into art.
The Night Edward Gibbon Had His Great Idea15 Oct 202600:14:54
On October 15, 1764, amid the ruins of Rome, a young Londoner had an idea. Edward Gibbon would spend the next 23 years turning it into one of the greatest works of history ever written.
William Penn: The London Rebel Who Founded Pennsylvania14 Oct 202600:14:34
Born near the Tower of London, jailed for his beliefs and determined to change the world. Meet William Penn, the London rebel who founded Pennsylvania, and the twelve stubborn London jurors who helped make legal history.
The First Knight of the Stage13 Oct 202600:17:31
Bradford may have got his death. But London got his life. Meet Sir Henry Irving, the first actor to be knighted and the man who made the Lyceum Theatre the centre of London’s dramatic world.
Sid and Nancy: Punk Rock in Little Venice12 Oct 202600:07:17
A stone’s throw from the quiet waters of Little Venice, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen were living one of rock ’n’ roll’s most turbulent love stories.
Christie’s: The Gallery Where Everything’s for Sale11 Oct 202600:11:06
One of London’s greatest art galleries is hiding in plain sight, and everything on the walls is about to disappear.
The Boy Who Learned to Listen10 Oct 202600:17:40
A Hackney boy who talked to imaginary friends grew up to change the sound of theatre. Harold Pinter taught us to listen to the words, the silences, and especially the pauses.
The London Boy with the Rolleicord09 Oct 202600:14:54
Before the battlefields, there was Finsbury Park. Don McCullin had a Rolleicord, hard streets, hard men and an eye that missed very little. London taught him where to look.
Hats Off to 350 Years08 Oct 202600:08:53
Lock & Co has been putting hats on London heads for 350 years. Princes, politicians, dandies and ordinary Londoners have all passed through its St James’s Street door, and somehow the old firm is still standing, still fitting, still unmistakably itself.
109,915 People Under One Glass Roof07 Oct 202600:13:04
On October 7th, 1851, a staggering 109,915 people poured into Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition’s busiest day. So much silver changed hands that the takings needed two hackney cabs to carry them to the Bank of England.
“Burned out with London. Needed a bit of a break.”06 Oct 202600:13:20
Jason Lewis was "burned out with London and needed a bit of a break." Thirteen years, 46,000 miles, two broken legs, blood poisoning, oceans, rollerblades and a crocodile later, he came home to Greenwich.
The Day the Sixties Arrived05 Oct 202600:14:02
October 5th, 1962. James Bond walks onto the screen. The Beatles walk into the record shops. Britain wakes up in one decade and goes to bed in another.
Cable Street: The Day London Said No04 Oct 202600:11:23
Ninety years ago today, fascism came marching into London’s East End. Cable Street answered with barricades, defiance and one unforgettable cry: “They shall not pass.”
The Night the Bolshoi Conquered London03 Oct 202600:10:13
Seventy years ago today, the Bolshoi Ballet swept into Covent Garden and London rose to its feet. A dazzling cultural moment, with the Hungarian uprising only days away.
Blow-Up Bridge02 Oct 202600:15:14
A barge packed with gunpowder, sugar and nuts explodes beneath Macclesfield Bridge, hurling debris across Regent’s Park and waking London with a bang. The story of Blow-Up Bridge.
Croydon: Hiding in Plain Sight01 Oct 202600:11:18
I crossed Croydon knowing almost nothing about it. Forty-two miles into the London Camino, the borough at journey’s end turned out to be one of the biggest surprises of the lot.
Eight Years to the Day30 Sep 202600:09:09
One date. Two extraordinary moments. Eight catastrophic years. September 30 tells one of the darkest stories of the twentieth century.
The Man Who Walked a Thousand Miles Without Going Anywhere29 Sep 202600:15:37
One mile every hour. For 1,000 hours. Meet Captain Barclay, Regency Britain’s almost forgotten walking phenomenon, prize-fight trainer and human endurance machine.
The Mould that Changed the World28 Sep 202600:11:38
A mouldy dish. A sharp eye. A discovery in Paddington that changed medicine forever.
London Was Talking. I Wasn’t Listening.27 Sep 202600:11:32
Albany Street: a perfectly ordinary London street with an extraordinary amount of history packed into it. Scratch the surface and out tumble grand terraces, soldiers, workhouses, artists, rogues and the great restless churn of London life.
Four Men, One Zebra Crossing and the End of the Road26 Sep 202600:12:35
Four men cross a London road. The camera clicks. And one ordinary zebra crossing walks straight into history.
The Doctor Who Put Blood Back In25 Sep 202600:13:35
How do you save a dying patient when medicine’s answer is to take blood out? James Blundell did something revolutionary. He put blood back in.
Eternal London Haunts Us Still23 Sep 202600:13:47
Thomas Moore wrote one of the immortal lines about London. The delicious twist? He was in Venice when he wrote it.
W. G. Grace: The Grave That Changed Everything22 Sep 202600:09:58
W. G. Grace was a giant of Victorian cricket, a legend in his own lifetime. Then I came across his grave and read the names above his own, and suddenly the great cricketer became something else: a father.
The Palace Vanished. The Monsters Survived.21 Sep 202600:09:45
A palace of glass. Victorian dinosaurs. Six million visitors. And a fire that lit up the London sky. The extraordinary story of Crystal Palace, where the monsters survived but the palace didn’t.
Meet Your Guide: A Photographer’s London21 Sep 202600:28:04
There were 175 people in that room in the Royal Academy. 174 of them - including me – were standing. You were stretched out on the floor, your camera two inches off the floor. What had you seen that nobody else had clocked? What were you photographing?"
The Dinner that Invented Georgian Poetry20 Sep 202600:11:08
On September 20, 1912, a handful of poets sat down to dinner. By the time the evening was over, they had the beginnings of a literary movement, a new generation of poets and a name: Georgian Poetry.
Not Bad for a Girl from Neasden19 Sep 202600:11:52
A skinny, clothes-mad schoolgirl from Neasden became the face of Swinging London. On her birthday – Happy Birthday, Twiggy! – this is how Lesley Hornby became Twiggy, and Twiggy became an icon.
The History of Everything. On a Theatre Walk.17 Sep 202600:07:31
London is one of the great theatre cities of the world. So why don’t more people want to walk it? Adam makes the case for two hours of greasepaint, gossip, gorgeous buildings and, just possibly, the history of everything.
Second Only to Newton. And We’ve Forgotten Him.17 Sep 202600:14:17
Every time that blood-pressure cuff tightens around your arm, an eighteenth-century Teddington clergyman is standing invisibly beside you. Meet Stephen Hales: scientist, inventor, pie improver, painter of posts and a man whose reputation once stood second only to Newton’s.
The Day Biba Hit the High Street16 Sep 202600:09:01
On September 16, 1969, Biba hit Kensington High Street. Step inside the dark, decadent world of Barbara Hulanicki and the trendiest store in Swinging London.
The Day the Sun Rose Over Fleet Street15 Sep 202600:08:56
On September 15, 1964, the Daily Herald set and a new Sun rose over Fleet Street. But it wasn’t yet the brash red-top Britain came to know.
Who’s that Lady in Blue?14 Sep 202600:09:19
There’s a new woman in Trafalgar Square. Tschabalala Self’s vivid blue Lady in Blue has taken possession of the Fourth Plinth, and she’s already changing the conversation.
The Day They Bombed Buckingham Palace12 Sep 202600:09:19
On September 13th, 1940, the Luftwaffe bombed Buckingham Palace, bringing the Blitz to the King and Queen’s own front door and giving the Royal Family an unexpected bond with bomb-battered London.
The London Traffic Light that Changed the World11 Sep 202600:08:29
A red light. A London street in Bloomsbury. A Hungarian physicist steps off the kerb and has an idea that will change the world. This is the extraordinary London moment when Leó Szilárd saw the possibility of the nuclear chain reaction.
The Great Diamond Job11 Sep 202600:10:10
One fabulous diamond. One audacious plan. And one of London’s most extraordinary heists.
Two Sisters, a Fable & a Little Mirth10 Sep 202600:19:20
Tucked away on Kensington Church Walk is Fable and Mirth, a tiny cabinet of wonders created by sisters Neely and Sarita. We step inside to meet them and hear the story behind one of Kensington’s most individual little shops.
William Morris: the Revolutionary Who Made the Rich Beautiful08 Sep 202600:07:19
William Morris wanted to change the world, beautified the homes of the rich and somehow ended up on everything from nuclear submarines to egg cups.
He Poured London in Concrete08 Sep 202600:13:14
From Kensington boy to master of concrete: the story of Sir Denys Lasdun, the man who gave London a National Theatre that one future king called a nuclear power station and John Betjeman greeted with a gasp of delight.
Happy 493rd Birthday, Your Majesty07 Sep 202600:16:36
It all comes down to one little letter – the letter S.T
The Day London Dug Up a Roman Ship06 Sep 202600:09:05
In 1962, somebody dug a hole beside the Thames at Blackfriars. And London opened a trapdoor into its past. Down there, waiting beneath the city for eighteen hundred years, was a Roman ship.
Hampstead Invented Wellness05 Sep 202600:10:13
Hampstead was doing health and wellness when the rest of London was doing gin, smallpox and open sewers.
The Worst Day in London’s History03 Sep 202600:09:05
September 4, 1666. London was an inferno. The fire was still advancing. This wasn't just the worst day of the Great Fire. It was the worst day in London history.
Four Hundred Years Hiding in Plain Sight02 Sep 202600:19:04
An ordinary London street, three names, four hundred years and one astonishing reminder that nothing in London is ever quite what it seems.
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