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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.

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00:14:02

The Day the Sixties Arrived

London Walks ·

2026/10/05

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.

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00:11:23

Cable Street: The Day London Said No

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2026/10/04

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.”

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00:10:13

The Night the Bolshoi Conquered London

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2026/10/03

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.

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00:15:14

Blow-Up Bridge

London Walks ·

2026/10/02

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.

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00:11:18

Croydon: Hiding in Plain Sight

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2026/10/01

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.

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00:09:09

Eight Years to the Day

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2026/09/30

One date. Two extraordinary moments. Eight catastrophic years. September 30 tells one of the darkest stories of the twentieth century.

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00:15:37

The Man Who Walked a Thousand Miles Without Going...

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2026/09/29

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.

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00:11:38

The Mould that Changed the World

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2026/09/28

A mouldy dish. A sharp eye. A discovery in Paddington that changed medicine forever.

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00:11:32

London Was Talking. I Wasn’t Listening.

London Walks ·

2026/09/27

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.

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00:12:35

Four Men, One Zebra Crossing and the End of the Road

London Walks ·

2026/09/26

Four men cross a London road. The camera clicks. And one ordinary zebra crossing walks straight into history.

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00:13:35

The Doctor Who Put Blood Back In

London Walks ·

2026/09/25

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.

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00:13:47

Eternal London Haunts Us Still

London Walks ·

2026/09/23

Thomas Moore wrote one of the immortal lines about London. The delicious twist? He was in Venice when he wrote it.

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00:09:58

W. G. Grace: The Grave That Changed Everything

London Walks ·

2026/09/22

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.

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00:09:45

The Palace Vanished. The Monsters Survived.

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2026/09/21

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.

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00:28:04

Meet Your Guide: A Photographer’s London

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2026/09/21

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?"

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00:11:08

The Dinner that Invented Georgian Poetry

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2026/09/20

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.

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00:11:52

Not Bad for a Girl from Neasden

London Walks ·

2026/09/19

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.

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00:07:31

The History of Everything. On a Theatre Walk.

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2026/09/17

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.

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00:14:17

Second Only to Newton. And We’ve Forgotten Him.

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2026/09/17

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.

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00:09:01

The Day Biba Hit the High Street

London Walks ·

2026/09/16

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.

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