Londonist Out Loud

Heather Agyepong is this week's guest, and the credit for the cover picture is hers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's guest is Peter Watts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's special quiz features 30 questions for the Londonphile, taken from Curiocity by Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose, The National Geographic London Book of Lists by Tim Jepson and Larry Porges, and Everything You Know About London Is Wrong by Matt Brown. Photo by Matt Brown. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A look back at 2016, and the 6 most miserable clips from the last 12 months of Londonist Out Loud. Thanks to Sheldon Goodman, Rob Smith, Eva Mak, Sarah Wise, Katie Wignall, Alice Bell, Max Wakefield and Katie Harris. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we're at the Royal Festival Hall with Larry Porges, previously an editor at National Geographic, a London-lover who co-wrote the London Book of Lists, an illustrated compendium covering the city’s best, worst, highest, smallest, first, last, and everything in-between. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's guests are Vicky Lane and Tim White See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we're talking toys with Catherine Howell collections manager at the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's guest is John Boughton See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My guest this week is Rachel Kolsky. Picture credit: Louis Berk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's guest is Rachel Kolsky. Pictures copyright Louis Berk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John McKiernan of Platform 7 is this week's guest See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jesse Scharf and Alice Bell are this week's guests. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's guest is Caroline Shenton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brace yourself - it's all doom and gloom in this podcast. Rob Smith from Footprints of London to hear about dystopian presentations of London. From Boudicca to HG Wells, there have been many tales of the city being destroyed. Join us on this terrifying journey... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's guest is Henry Eliot See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jamie Owens is this week's guest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tina Baxter is this week's guest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Judah is this week's guest See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we're learning the skills of bushcraft in London with Wendy Paton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What's it like being one of London's 'knights of the road' - a cycle courier? We meet Jon Day to find out... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London is September 2016, so we're visiting The Monument with David Laird, and taking a trip to the top of the doric column in the City. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The rather unassuming facade of Ben Uri in St John's Wood hides one of the best collections of emigre art in the country. We went to find out more about this fascinating place with learning manager, Katie Harris and Artuner's Eva Mak. You can read Eva's article on the gallery here: http://www.artuner.com/insight/best-kept-secrets-finale-ben-uri-gallery-museum/. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second world war some 40,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped on London. What was that like, and what effect did such a bombardment have on the population? We find out with this week's guest, Robert Fleming, manager of the Templer Study Centre. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah Wise is this week's guest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's guest is our own Matt Brown. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week NQW talks to food expert Kim Smith of Gluten-Free Gatherings about eating on a restricted diet in London, finds out where to eat like a caveman, and uncovers her past in the murky world of artificial flavourings and ready meals... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guests this week are Sue Sinton Smith, Rachel Matthews and Liz Clough. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we're at the home of Alfred Hitchcock, Leystonstone, with Dee Wood. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A trip to Leighton House Museum with Daniel Robbins. Photo by Will Pryce. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Pedroche shows N Quentin Woolf around King's Cross - and an abandoned tube station. Picture credit: dakota_boo from the Londonist Flickr pool See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're at the world’s first purpose-built public art gallery - Dulwich Picture Gallery - with Ian Dejardin, the gallery's Sackler Director. The gallery is one of London's most wonderful gems, and owner of one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're at the Museum of Immigration just off Brick Lane with Susie Symes, chair of trustees at 19 Princelet Street -- aka the Museum of Immigration. London wouldn't be what it is without immigration across the ages. Here we're exploring what that's meant for the city and how refugees, economic migrants, and other immigrants have changed the face of the capital. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lace up your running shoes: this week we're in the City of London with Amy Coats and Vanessa Cain are this week's guests, who run secret running tours of London. Yes, that means jogging between the sites... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mike Althorpe is this week's guest as we take a walk through Regent's Park. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're looking at a pile of salt -- but don't worry, we haven't gone mad, it's an installation by artist Philip Hall Patch, at Elements Gallery. Rebecca Feiner tells us more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we find out about London's energy with Alice Bell and Max Wakefield. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

N Quentin Woolf and Mathew Lyons duke it out with the weather and aircraft noise at Chiswick House to discuss how the history of London got made. Photo: shadow_in_the_water See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week NQW heads to Salieri, the longest-standing family-run restaurant on the Strand, to hear from not just the owners but the Federation of Small Businesses about the pressures being faced in London as property prices rise and rise. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Fathers, author of The London Thames Path, joins N Quentin Woolf for a real time walk along the river from the Thames Barrier to Greenwich. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

London's Tin Pan Alley is one of the most musical areas of the city. But it's seen huge change and redevelopment in recent years, with many concerned about it losing it character. We meet Henry Scott-Irvine of the Save Tin Pan Alley campaign. Photo credit: Terry O'Neil See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sheldon Goodman is this week's guest as we head to West Norwood Cemetery to hear about the history of one of the Magnificent Seven, the famous people interred there and some fascinating trivia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chef Michelle Francis is this week's guest, as we go on a tour of Soho via its food. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Clare Skelton talks about FoodCycle's work taking unused food and cooking meals for vulnerable people. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alice May Williams talks about her film Dream City – More, Better, Sooner, a meditation on the changing face of Battersea Power Station. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We explore the back alleys around Embankment with Katie Wignall of Look Up London. Plus we meet an underwater photographer and find out where to get a cup of coffee for £1 near Temple tube. Seriously. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yannick Pucci and N Quentin Woolf go in search of green tea. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Geoff Leong is this week's guest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Coronet in Notting Hill was built as an opera house in 1898 and has since been a theatre and more recently a cinema. In 2014 it was bought by fringe theatre The Print Room. Anda Winters explains how the group is bringing it back to its former glory. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

N Quentin Woolf goes on a tour round (the) Strand with Vic Norman of London Pub Tours, digging up some fascinating trivia and history on the way. Oh, and stopping on the way at a gin palace, London's oldest wine bar and the only pub that's in two halves. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Vic Norman of London Pub Tours takes N Quentin Woolf on a tour of three pubs around Temple and Strand. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we're on the fringes of Soho to meet Andreas Kambanis of one of the capital's best cycling blogs, londoncyclist.co.uk. N Quentin Woolf puts his own personal problems with cycling to Andreas. Can he convince him to change he mind? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.