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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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00:14:41

The Bolshoi Storms London

London Walks ·

2025/10/02

October 1956: the Bolshoi Ballet lands in London with 80 tons of scenery, KGB minders in tow, and a troupe led by Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya. Covent Garden reels at their scale and power – 45 minutes of applause, queues in the rain, a stage too small for their vast sets. Meanwhile, across Europe, the Hungarian Uprising explodes. Ballet, politics, glamour, tanks — three weeks that shook London and rewrote the story of British ballet.

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00:15:09

London’s Double-deckers at 100

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2025/10/01

October 2nd, 1925: four covered-top double-deckers debut on the Elephant to Epping route, drawing queues of curious Londoners. A century later, their descendants — 8,800 buses, 6,000 of them double-deckers — knit the capital together with 5 million journeys a day and 300 million miles a year. From four pioneers at the Elephant to a red fleet that could lap the Earth 12,000 times or reach the Sun in four months — London’s buses aren’t just transport. They’re a solar-system-sized lifeline, a cosmic

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00:31:42

October 1st Update – The Ultimate London Walk

London Walks ·

2025/09/30

On section 13 you get the best view in London from here on earth...it's unrivalled, it's very high, it's an amazing view

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00:14:52

September 30 – Peace for Our Time, Judgement for All...

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2025/09/30

September 30 twice marked history. In 1938, Chamberlain promised “peace for our time.” Eight years later, in 1946, the Nuremberg judges delivered guilty verdicts on Nazi leaders. Hope and reckoning – two dates, one day, history’s cruel symmetry.

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00:17:09

Georgian 101

London Walks ·

2025/09/29

An exploration of what “Georgian” really means — the look, the feel, and the deeper story behind London’s calm, symmetrical 18th-century architecture.

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00:14:11

The Hinge of the Year

London Walks ·

2025/09/28

Michaelmas Eve – when the year tips into the dark. The last geese sizzle, the last debts get squared, and the devil, they say, is out spitting on the blackberries. It’s a night for charms, for peering into bowls of water to see who you’ll marry – or if you’ll die – and for hoping St. Michael, sword flashing, is on duty. Because after tonight, the dark takes over.

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00:14:12

Sneak Preview of Dan Parry’s London’s Spymasters Walk

London Walks ·

2025/09/26

Dan’s taking London’s Spymasters out for a spin this afternoon – so we couldn’t resist giving you a sneak preview. Picture him in Horse Guards Parade, spinning the yarn of Operation Mincemeat, weaving in the James Bond connection, and – just for good measure – putting us tantalisingly close to unmasking the real 007.Pull up a chair, lean in. Here’s Dan.

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00:15:21

Books, Bombs & British Backbone

London Walks ·

2025/09/26

A night of fire. A very grand historic old house in ruins. And an image that came to define the Blitz

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00:16:20

London Makes Medical History

London Walks ·

2025/09/25

September 25, 1818 – the day London made medical history. Guy’s Hospital. A patient is bleeding out. London surgeon James Blundell rolls the dice on an untested idea: take blood from one person, inject it into another. No blood typing, no antiseptic, just urgency, ingenuity, and a syringe. Against the odds, the patient lives. We’ll meet Dr. Blundell, part mad-scientist, part visionary, who turned a desperate gamble into the first successful human-to-human blood transfusion. It’s a story of risk,

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00:13:10

The Man Who Invented Gothic & Gossip

London Walks ·

2025/09/24

The wind howls, the candles gutter… London, 1717: a child is born beneath a sky that seems to know it’s witnessing trouble. He will grow up to conjure castles full of ghosts, corridors thick with secrets, and gossip sharp enough to draw blood.

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00:14:12

The Day the Room Went Still

London Walks ·

2025/09/23

On a hushed September morning in 1939, as war loomed over London, Sigmund Freud drew his last breath in Hampstead. This is the story of that extraordinary passing.

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00:15:58

Cable Laying, Garden Strolling & Foodie Rolling

London Walks ·

2025/09/22

Right, gather round — this one’s a bit of a lucky dip. Here’s what’s rattling about in the bag:📚 A cracking book recommendation from one of our celebrity guides — proper page-turner stuff. 🚶 A London Walk so good it’s gone — yep, Sold Out (but all is not lost). 🍜 A delicious little amuse-bouche from a Chef’s Tour in Kuala Lumpur — have a sniff, have a taste. 🇮🇹 An Italian guest’s rave review — bellissimo! 🌊 And to top it off, a message in a bottle — chucked into the sea and washing up here,

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00:15:58

London’s Shimmering Royals

London Walks ·

2025/09/21

it’s London with its heart on its sleeve...

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00:15:53

The Candle That Never Went Out

London Walks ·

2025/09/20

Put a candle in the window...

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00:17:11

London in Shining Armour

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2025/09/19

London calling. London Walks connecting. This… is London. This is London Walks. Streets ahead. Story time. History time. Top of the morning to you London Walkers. Wherever you are. It’s Friday, September 19th, 2025. Our warm up act, as always, the London Calling Book Club Corner. In the Chair today, London Walks’ Knight errant, Richard […]

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00:19:35

London’s Secret Stages

London Walks ·

2025/09/18

the square is to London what canals are to Venice

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00:15:22

A Foggy Day in London’s Memory

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2025/09/17

The gas lamps throwing halos

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00:17:58

Malaysia on Thames

London Walks ·

2025/09/16

London doesn’t just import, it cross-pollinates.

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00:15:37

Ripper Masterclass – Dan Parry

London Walks ·

2025/09/15

he's a leading authority on espionage

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00:20:13

Short Jaunt, Long History

London Walks ·

2025/09/14

'oldest pub in England'

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