A podcast about the underground history of London. Hidden places and forgotten stories beneath the City.
Subterraneans Season 9 begins on November 4th 2025. Get early access to the first two episodes by subscribing now at patreon.com/subterpod. Additional music on this teaser episode by the Tottenham Noise Ensemble.
A little update during the off-season. With love to you all. Hypogean Tapes - Like the Sky: https://palacetapes.bandcamp.com/album/like-the-sky EHRC Consultation: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/equality/equality-act-2010/codes-practice/code-practice-services-public-functions-and-associations TransActual guidance on filling out the survey: https://transactual.org.uk/equality-act-campaign/responding-to-the-ehrc-consultation/
The season finale of Subterraneans Season 8. Stepping out into nothingness. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
The Bull & Mouth; strange omens in the gaping maw of history. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
A new job. This episode contains extreme frequencies and some upsetting violence. Please listen with care. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Life above the clouds in the path of the Moselle. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
A body in the park outside my flat, and rituals down by the Thames. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Season 8 begins shortly. Get early access at patreon.com/subterpod
Exploring Q-Whitehall, the network of tunnels beneath the heart of the government, and the strange installations in the bloodstream of the city. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
In the depths of the internet lies an exact copy of you. Waiting. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
The mischievous spirits of the Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve and planning for the swamp. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Pirate radio and divine broadcasts. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
We don't dance around the dials any more. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
The season finale of Subterraneans Season 6. Learning to get rude, and a strange new job. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
A music box at St Pauls tube station and a song that lasts forever: exploring the Phantom Platforms that exist in the gap between waveforms.
Queer misery and the search for the magic words. www.patreon.com/subterpod
Pick-up artists and mycelium beneath a row of terraces in Feltham. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Echoes and whispers in a Poplar housing estate. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
In the season finale of Subterraneans, I listen to the tapes that Flick sent me. We listen to the tapes that Flick sent me. You listen to the tapes that Flick sent me. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
The Doves Press and its unique typeface printed what have been described by design historians as “some of the finest books ever produced in England”. Why, then, did it end up spending a hundred years at the bottom of the river? www.patreon.com/subterpod
Why have mysterious creatures from Appalachian folklore begun appearing in the roads near Richmond Park? www.patreon.com/subterpod
The Mole Man of Hackney, and a discovery beneath Finsbury Park. www.patreon.com/subterpod
Hypnosis, murder, and the music industry. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Ephemera: Four stories from the edge. Rat boat, walking into traffic, creatures of the tube, and a painting from another dimension. The finale of Subterraneans Season 4. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Mansel Wheeler strikes back against the Returners. Part two of the Mass Rock Heist. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Part one of a two-part series on Mansel Wheeler, the Returners, and a heist which split the city in two. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
Fortunes in flux along the East End's industrial riverfront. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
This is a love story. http://patreon.com/subterpod
Subterraneans Season 4 will begin on Friday 18 June 2021. http://patreon.com/subterpod
Searching for Parthenope in the cold mud of the estuary. Sewers, sirens, wading birds, and bovril boats, in the season finale of Subterraneans. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: www.twitter.com/Subterpod
Wren's churches, Chaucer's clergy, and the sanctuary within the sanctuary; I take a look at the secret codes in the City's churchyards. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: www.twitter.com/Subterpod
Raves at the end of history in the failed shopping malls of late capitalism. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: www.twitter.com/Subterpod
A mysterious grate in the centre of Charing Cross Road, and the troubled organics of a restless city. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod
Subterraneans Season 3 kicks off with a tribute to the suburbs, and the Victorian gasometers, of the ex-industrial estuary. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod
Clerkenwell Prison, the Camden Catacombs, and the drowned. The season finale of Subterraneans Season 2. The show will now be on hiatus as I regroup and prepare for the next step. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod
Nuclear war, plague, and learning to fly at the end of the world. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod
The natural world, tube lines, and giant sloths. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod
I visit Blackfriars Bridge, conspiracy theories, numbers stations, and the search for truth. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod
Season two of Subterraneans picks up where we left off, exploring the hidden city and its secret hinterlands beneath the earth. Stories of burial, exhumation, reburial, drowning, and surviving beneath the cold earth. Subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Subterpod
In the season finale of Subterraneans, I return to the Aldgate Cavern to try to connect it to the rest of the City. Subterraneans will now be on hiatus until season 2 is ready. Follow on Twitter or subscribe on iTunes for more information as it's ready. https://twitter.com/subterpod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265
In the wealthy suburbs of Kensington and Hampstead, billionaires are building super-basements to artificially extend their properties an extra five of six storeys below the ground... but that's not all they're doing. In this episode, I explore money and power beneath London's quiet residential streets. Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265 Or follow the show on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Subterpod
In episode 3 of Subterraneans, I discuss the building of the tube, the kind spirits who walk with us through the darkness, and the ghost stations and hidden vaults which lie beneath London. Subterraneans is written and produced by James Thompson. All my feeds can be found at https://twitter.com/Subterpod
In Episode 2, we explore the Amphitheatre which lies beneath Guildhall Yard, and the founding of the Roman city. All music and words by James Thompson. Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265 Follow the podcast on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/subterpod
Episode 1 of a new podcast about the hidden underground stories which lie beneath London. I tell the story of the Aldgate Tunnel, the men who built it, and what they found beneath the City. All music and words by James Thompson. Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265 Follow the podcast on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/subterpod
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