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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.

London Walks


    • Jul 29, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Latest episodes from London Walks

    Harrow School – Follow up! Follow up!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 19:17


    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 Tuesday, July 29th, 2025. And here's the spin of the roulette wheel. Where's the ball – aka the pill – coming to stop? Ah, there […]

    “The first and last BBC woman announcer”

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 12:13


    "the past is a foreign country"

    London Street Furniture – Link Extinguishers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 13:57


    "thou art an everlasting bonfire light"

    Make Kensington Fun Again

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 21:17


    "She's our greening expert"

    St James’s Day, football and Chiswick

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 17:43


    "traditional Polish fare...the dumplings are my favourite"

    Tie one on

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2025 15:31


    egg and bacon

    Knightsbridge – the Velvet Ghetto

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2025 12:15


    A touch of Camelot in Cadogan Square

    Update: The Ultimate London Walk

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 37:01


    "walkways and pathways along rivers and brooks"

    From prison to gallery, punishment to pleasure

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 14:57


    "I was moved to tears"

    He was a human cannonball

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2025 14:51


    Not just an Admiral – a Force 9 Gale in a uniform

    A shape for sorrow

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 15:07


    It became sacred

    Not just articulate, inspiring…

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025 28:37


    "the differences between the U.S. and the U.K."

    Paris & London

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 13:12


    "London is a riddle, Paris is an explanation"

    A certain slant of light

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 19:21


    Slava Ukraini!

    Bow Street – let’s go to Will’s Coffee House

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2025 12:41


    "catch the hum of history"

    Bow Street – the Young Dancer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 15:12


    But she's also eternally young and in London, just over the way from Royal Opera House where she was a royal ballerina.

    A young woman’s death by hanging

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 13:05


    the past is a lighthouse, not a port

    A building very important in English history

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 9:10


    "he was paralytically drunk"

    What happened today changed world history

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 18:22


    "the notorious bankrupt and womaniser who was tried for treason"

    Let’s go to Kensington!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 35:11


    "it's every bit as bewitching as the Bridge of Sighs itself"

    Fundamentals, Wimbledon, etc.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 15:20


    the first-ever Wimbledon champion was also the father of the volley.

    Bow Street

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 17:17


    "then we see it, the most terrifying sight we'll ever see"

    This is London – Gay Pride, Wimbledon, Kneecap & Trams

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 15:50


    “the tramcar was very nicely arranged with chairs and pink cushions"

    This one’s personal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 12:37


    "doing one-hand handstands"

    Karen guiding in the National Portrait Gallery

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2025 11:23


    "looking at a portrait transcends time"

    London on July 4, 1776

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2025 19:29


    General Howe had no choice but to put the torch to New York City

    The book burning

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 11:17


    Wars don't end when they end

    Constitution Hill is London’s grassy knoll

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 18:04


    The world has raised its whip. Where will it descend?

    July & Julius Caesar and Robert & Rotherhithe

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 13:07


    Married in July with flowers ablaze

    London Nightlife

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 15:19


    100 years ago nobody was doing a better job of telling the London story

    She had 200 lovers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 14:05


    "She was popularly known as 'Lady Randy'"

    The Monument

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2025 13:02


    The Monument is a 17th century skyscraper

    Theatre Director and Novelist

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 54:11


    "in fact colour were vibrant in the late Victorian age"

    Pied Piper Day

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 16:59


    "they fought the dogs and killed the cats"

    Gamechanger! David guides the charge of the Light Brigade

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 13:28


    "How did three titled dunderheads get to be in charge of an army?"

    Gamechanger – David G., the platonic ideal of a great guide

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 56:26


    "I started guiding before I finished lawyering"

    Midsummer Eve

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 14:41


    "you could make yourself invisible"

    Laurie lives in Florida but she’s a Londoner

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 17:15


    "there's always a bit of wistfulness. Laurie misses London"

    The Albany – you’re not in Kansas any more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 20:03


    "the most interesting street in London"

    The Complete Works of Shakespeare will never look the same

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 13:33


    think of each one of those 800,000 words as the life of a young soldier or officer

    “Sexual intercourse makes your teeth fall out”

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 11:43


    "look, there's the football coach in the chair getting a buzz cut for his palms"

    I wear purple

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 13:48


    "You have to wash your mouth out with carbolic"

    “Power is my mistress”

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 17:46


    he blacked out when he ejaculated

    Why go on the Mrs Dalloway’s London Walk?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 19:39


    The walk explores the London of 1923

    All About June 8th

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 17:34


    bye bye influencers, hello Goths

    Stewart’s Scoop!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 6:49


    "we had images of glaring demons with horns sprouting from their heads"

    London on D-Day

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 19:06


    "those wounds are nicks in a living oak"

    Mrs Dalloway – The Centenary Walk – Limited Edition

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 13:47


    “There is only one recipe – to care a great deal for the cookery.”

    Lonely in London, two human skulls, a jar of bull’s sperm…

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 13:29


    Item: two human skulls in a bag. Item: a jar of bull's sperm

    Roses, Spies, Roman Goddesses, Peacocks, Poetry…

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 14:36


    it gets a big dodgy here. Juno wasn't just Jupiter's wife. She was also his sister.

    Laurie from Florida, heroes & human sacrifices

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 17:43


    "a hero was one who urinated standing up"

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