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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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00:15:40

Monstrously Good Read & Covent Garden Teaser

London Walks ·

2025/10/10

Today’s London Calling is a double treat. First up, Adam tears into the London Calling Book Club Corner with a book so gripping you’ll be ordering it before he’s finished talking. Then Dr Ann takes the baton for a taster from her brand-new walk, Nooks & Crannies – Unseen Covent Garden. Books, ghosts, hidden corners – London doesn’t get better than this.

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00:29:46

Big Ideas in Bloomsbury – Dr Ann’s Thought-Provoking...

London Walks ·

2025/10/09

Dr Ann's What's the Big Idea Walk takes you through Bloomsbury's squares – the cradle of modern thought. Where ideas were born, challenged, took shape, and still reverberate. A walk as stimulating as the minds that inspired it.

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00:14:12

Tiny Mice to Towering Views

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2025/10/08

An October evening City of London excursion that begins at the 17th-century Monument and winds through Philpot Lane (where it takes in London's tiniest sculptures) and then on to Leadenhall Market’s Victorian splendour before arriving at the modern marvel of the Leadenhall Building – the “Cheesegrater.” The piece tells the story of the building’s design, nickname, height, and views, blending history and anecdote with the experience of going up to its soaring upper floors. It’s a love-letter to

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00:13:57

A Love Letter to Stucco

London Walks ·

2025/10/07

A lively, anecdotal wander through the creamy world of stucco — the material that gave London’s grand western terraces their smooth Italianate glamour. From its humble mix of lime and sand to its starring role in John Nash’s Regent’s Park and Little Venice, this is the story of how plaster and paint pulled off one of the greatest visual conjuring tricks in urban history: turning brick into marble, speculation into splendour, and Paddington into “Venice.”

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00:38:47

How London Got Gazumped

London Walks ·

2025/10/06

Gazumped. London Calling's on the case. Sniffs out one of the great London words – gazump! From its East End Yiddish roots to its 1970s rebirth in the city’s cut-throat property market, this is the story of how a market-stall cry for “don’t get swindled!” became the headline-grabbing curse of London homebuyers.It’s a word that sounds like what it means – half comedy, half cruelty – and it could only have been born in London. Pointer David’s on the scent again, and he’s tracked down a linguistic gem

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00:15:13

Tails of the City

London Walks ·

2025/10/05

London told through the creatures that know it best: the rat in the tunnel and the dog on the lead. From the sewers to the parks, from Herbert’s scuttling hordes to Ann’s faithful pack, this is the secret animal history of the capital – cheeky, vivid, and unmistakably alive.

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00:13:28

London by Gaslight

London Walks ·

2025/10/04

When Alison leads her Old Palace Quarter Walk into Pickering Place – that exquisite little centuries-old courtyard off St James’s Street – a sharp-eyed walker spots a mysterious oval plaque numbered 8100. What is it? Not a relic, not a door number, but a clue to one of London’s best-kept secrets: the city’s living network of gas lamps.

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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

London Walks ·

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...

London Walks ·

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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