All Episodes
London Walks — 70 episodes
To see London you have to hear it
Bayswater – “that diamond of London place-names”
My Favourite Interview – Hampstead Artist Matt Phillips
David on Memorial Day
The Dark Side of the London Moon
“We never closed…we never clothed”
Famous Londoners, Epiphanies & Serious History – a David podcast
Come Ashore – this is Hampstead & Hampstead Heath
David on Downing Street
This Sunday is David’s Virtual Tour of Kensington – here’s how it opens
David recommends – Part II (the perfect route across Regent’s Park)
David’s Recommendation – Part I
Where to eat in Kensington
Let’s meet a Londoner – actor William Wilde, runs Hornets today
Universal flux – David tucks in
“She lost her virginity in a graveyard”
When a neighbour floods your cellar with urine – David reports
David’s Charles Dickens Manuscript Discovery
What’s in a London name? David finds out
The best house in London
God’s Assassin
David on Dickens (No Christmas Dickens in this one, that’s for sure)
Swapping Stories – James Bond, the naked actress at the door, etc.
Cartoonist savages Boris Johnson, 10-year-old girl bests the City of London
Tombs, Secret Doors & Hidden Gardens – David on Westminster Abbey
This is why you go on walking tours (well, it’s one reason, a helluva good reason)
October 31 is a membrane “they” can pass through, get in amongst us.
Let’s meet a Londoner!
Let us now praise famous guides – Charles Chilton, the legendary BBC producer
The Perfect October Afternoon in London
And if I speak of paradise
The Wall Street Journal
Favourite moment, favourite memory on a favourite walk
How to sort the wheat from the weeds – Part 2
Trouble at Mill
London’s history crystallised in a single word
How do you sort the wheat from the weeds – Part I
When David met Boris Johnson
“If you understand 9 Buckingham Gate you understand the world”
“like school for grownups – all the good bits and none of the bad bits”
Virginia Woolf Bombed
A London Battlefield
London, October 1940
Swimming the English Channel
The Great Fire of London – the moment they realised…
Where the Fire of London really started
The Great Fire of London – Pudding Lane, the spark, the first two hours
The Great Fire of London – what was London like?
Panegyric for June, Jean and Joan – the 3 Js, late, great London Walks guides
The poet, the swans, the sorrow, the beauty… In Hampstead
Shakespeare and London – David explores the interface
London placenames are x-rays. They show us the past.
David introduces Hampstead – “a cutlass clenched between your teeth”
Let’s visit a 312 year old house – and its famous resident
London Walks Smorgasbord
Where do London Walks guides get their information?
Day One of the London Walks Resurgam – David reports from the front lines
David Cracks Open a “Nondescript Corner” of Kensington
Secret Westminster
London Walks History – The Day Trips
“Do you ever cross paths with famous people on London Walks?”
You’re directly above Kensington Palace – 80 feet up, looking down
“What do we see on the Kensington tour?”
The History of London Walks – Part I, the 1960s
Hampstead – David guides it (well, part of it)
Mary’s parents both had close calls during the Blitz
Hampstead Tube Stop – David gives us a little tour
In the Beginning – David serves up a London tour de force
Brussels, dawn, October 12th, 1915 – David takes aim
Schitt’s Creek without the Roses – David on Kensington