Episodi

  • London Calling: Changing Gear

    London Calling: Changing Gear
    Nov 6 2026
    Five hundred consecutive daily podcasts. Half a million listens. And now a change of gear. London Calling isn’t going away. Far from it. We’re trading seven daily editions for one longer, richer, more varied Saturday programme. The sidecar isn’t being abandoned. I’m simply climbing back onto the motorcycle. Come along for the ride.
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    12 min
  • The House of Bones

    The House of Bones
    Nov 5 2026
    Where did London put its dead when the graveyards were full? A journey into a lost world of bones, burial, belief and some of the strangest chapters in the city’s history.
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    14 min
  • The Little Red Flower That Remembers

    The Little Red Flower That Remembers
    Nov 5 2026
    A little red flower. A terrible history. How the poppy became the emblem of remembrance, why we wear it, and how something so fragile came to carry the weight of millions of lives lost in war.
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    16 min
  • The Many Lives of a London Guide

    The Many Lives of a London Guide
    Nov 4 2026
    Law, surveying, dispatch riding, art, even a black belt in judo. Brian’s had more lives than a cat. Meet the award-winning London Walks guide who’s done just about everything.
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    13 min
  • “Just Ourselves and Pirandello”

    “Just Ourselves and Pirandello”
    Nov 3 2026
    Meet “the Coalbox”, Lady Sibyl Colefax, one of London’s great hostesses. When the King came to dinner, he brought Wallis Simpson. Rubinstein played Chopin. Noël Coward sang.
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    17 min
  • Lady Chatterley in the Dock

    Lady Chatterley in the Dock
    Nov 2 2026
    A book in the dock. A nation on trial. How the 1960 Lady Chatterley obscenity trial became a turning point in British social and cultural history.
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    28 min
  • The Night the Year Turns

    The Night the Year Turns
    Nov 1 2026
    An ancient Celtic festival, a Hampstead chapel and the mysterious turning of the year. A journey into Samhain, where summer gives way to winter and the boundary between the living and the dead grows tantalisingly thin.
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    15 min
  • London Doesn't Just Reward Curiosity. It Creates Curiosity.

    London Doesn't Just Reward Curiosity. It Creates Curiosity.
    Oct 31 2026
    A closer look at a tank memorial in Whitehall turns a familiar London sight into a story of five men, steel armour and seconds to escape. That’s London: even something you’ve passed a hundred times can send you somewhere you’ve never been.
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    14 min