London Walks

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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.

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Rule, Britannia! – The London Story Behind the Song 12.03.2026 8:42

He died while talking about music.

Don’t Panic – Douglas Adams’ London 11.03.2026 9:15

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy began as a wildly improbable idea brought to life in London. This is the story of Douglas Adams, the BBC, and the birth of one of the funniest creations in modern fiction.

Slasher Mary – The Suffragette Who Attacked the Rokeby Venus 10.03.2026 10:22

London. The National Gallery. A suffragette. A meat cleaver. And the Rokeby Venus.

The Mini Skirt Takes Over Swinging London – When Hemlines Suddenly Went North 09.03.2026 10:07

The mini skirt explodes onto the streets of Swinging London in the 1960s. The story begins with French designer André Courrèges, a former civil engineer whose futuristic fashions helped ignite a revolution that London girls turned into a global sensation.

The Blind Beggar Murder – When Ronnie Kray Shot George Cornell 08.03.2026 8:05

The Blind Beggar shooting was too brazen.

The Man Who Made London Roar – Landseer and the Lions of Trafalgar Square 07.03.2026 8:09

He didn’t just paint animals. He gave them emotion.

Thirty-eight Seconds of Perfect Guiding 06.03.2026 2:22

He didn't know it but at that moment Charles Cross insured his immortality within the pages of history books.

The American Who Reinvented Oxford Street 06.03.2026 9:45

After Selfridge, shopping became a leisure activity.

Oxford Street Without Traffic? 05.03.2026 8:46

Now if you know Oxford Street you know the soundtrack. Buses roaring. Taxi horns. Engines revving. Delivery vans edging forward inch by inch like nervous chess pieces. It’s noisy, chaotic, gloriously unmistakably London. So imagine this: Oxford Street… without traffic.

When John Lennon Said the Beatles Were More Popular than Jesus 04.03.2026 8:46

Sixty years ago a seemingly innocuous feature in a London newspaper triggered one of the most extraordinary cultural storms of the 1960s. In a quiet interview with the Evening Standard, John Lennon made a remark that travelled from Fleet Street to the American South — and ignited bonfires of Beatles records. In this episode we trace the tiny London tremor that became an international cultural eart...

Everest – At Eve, The Rest 03.03.2026 10:10

Why is Everest called Everest? At dusk on the world’s highest peak, we discover a name, a surveyor, and, yes, a London story. A March 3rd story.

Happy New Year, Londinium – When March Was New Year 02.03.2026 8:46

Before January claimed the crown, the year began in March. In this London Walks dispatch we step back into Roman Londinium to see how New Year’s Day once fell on March 1st.

Roger Daltrey – from Shepherd’s Bush to The Who 01.03.2026 9:33

Born in Shepherd’s Bush and armed with one of rock’s great roars, Roger Daltrey helped define the sound of modern London. Today’s London Calling marks the birthday of The Who’s legendary frontman.

The Man Who Drew Wonderland 28.02.2026 14:43

Meet John Tenniel, the London artist who gave the world Alice, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat. Born on February 28, this quiet Punch cartoonist drew the definitive Wonderland.

The Bayeaux Tapestry is Coming to London 27.02.2026 13:39

It’s about the seismic shockwave that followed, and is still being felt nearly a thousand years later.

In Paper We Trust 25.02.2026 15:44

The Bank of England. did something quietly revolutionary.

The Great Trafalgar Square Pigeon War 25.02.2026 13:59

a city that understands the fine art of dignified absurdity

Extra! Extra! – Tube Etiquette, Ukraine, etc. 24.02.2026 18:17

By early evening the blue-and-yellow flags will start to appear.

Mother’s Ruin 24.02.2026 17:16

It's one of the most jaw-dropping episodes this city has ever produced.

The City’s Flag – and the Story It Tells 23.02.2026 16:56

Seven centuries of continuity