All Episodes

John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS Part 2: hit the beach at North Foreland, Kent, in search of dastardly German spies

John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS Part 1: experience the thrill of a chase through Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part Two: a North Foreland discovery

Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part One: Shady goings-on in Ramsgate

Geoffrey Household’s ROGUE MALE Part 2: pursuit across Dorset – tracking down a secret holloway-hideaway

Geoffrey Household’s ROGUE MALE Part 1: pursuit across London – Hurlingham steps to the Aldwych tube

AA Milne’s WHEN WE WE VERY YOUNG Part 2: the ghost of a golf course, and a swan called Pooh

AA Milne’s WHEN WE VERY YOUNG Part 1: down to Buckingham Palace with Alice

Alice Oswald’s DART Part 2: from Buckfast Abbey to the Mew Stone via a derelict dairy and a boatyard

Alice Oswald’s DART Part 1: Dartmoor to Buckfastleigh on foot, in a car – and on a steam train!

Edward Thomas’s IN PURSUIT OF SPRING Part Two: From Rudge to the Quantocks

Edward Thomas’s IN PURSUIT OF SPRING Part One: From Clapham to Salisbury

Nell Dunn’s UP THE JUNCTION Part 2: drill rap, sweets and trains on the Winstanley Estate, Battersea

Nell Dunn’s UP THE JUNCTION Part 1: from glamorous Chelsea to industrial Battersea

Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA Part Two: Go West, Young Man

Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA Part One: From Bromley to Penge

Angela Carter’s WISE CHILDREN Part 2: drinking, dancing & writing in Clapham, London

Angela Carter’s WISE CHILDREN Part 1: the lost theatres, music halls & cinemas of South London

Ruth Rendell’s FROM DOON WITH DEATH Part Two: The body in the woods

Ruth Rendell’s FROM DOON WITH DEATH Part One: Searching for Kingsmarkham

Dorothy L Sayers’s THE NINE TAILORS Part 2: inspecting drains and viewing sluices in the soggy Fens

Dorothy L Sayers’s THE NINE TAILORS Part 1: motoring across the Fens in search of bellringers

Agatha Christie’s THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD Part Two – a young writer’s imagination

Agatha Christie’s THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD Part One – Poirot’s house and Poirot’s marrows

Ben Aaronovitch‘s RIVERS OF LONDON Part 2: from Mister Punch at Covent Garden to Old Mother Thames at Wapping

Ben Aaronovitch‘s RIVERS OF LONDON Part 1: following the Thames from source to outer London

Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR Part Two

Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR Part One

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere Part Two: discovering an ancient wall in the Barbican, plus many other London underground secrets

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere Part One: wandering across London – from Albert Bridge to Soho – in search of portals to the underworld

Now That's Curiously Specific Part Two: Lloyd's Festive Five

Now That’s Curiously Specific Part One: Tim’s Festive Five

Mayor of Casterbridge Part Two: A skimmity ride beyond the city walls

Mayor of Casterbridge Part One: Is it Casterbridge? Or is it Dorchester?

Rebecca Part Two: completing a sunny circular walk around Manderley/Menabilly

Rebecca Part One: we’re off to Fowey in Cornwall in search of Manderley

The Remains of the Day Part Two: what the hell are we doing on Dartmoor?

The Remains of the Day Part One: a repressed butler drives to the West

Life After Life Part Two: swanky Kensington pads and WW2 Soho drinking dens

Life After Life Part One: exploring the Buckinghamshire stockbroker belt

The Night Watch Part Two: a walk through a City of London air raid

The Night Watch Part One: ‘conchies’, air raids and hidden love

Crooked Heart Part Two: a wartime wander in North London

Crooked Heart Part One: join us on an evacuation to St Albans

Get Carter Part Two: The quarry and the Humber

Get Carter Part One: Welcome to Scunthorpe

A Kestrel for a Knave Part Two: getting lost

A Kestrel for a Knave Part One: to Barnsley and Hoyland Common

Cold Water Part Two: a walk in search of Manchester (and Salford) bars

Cold Water Part One: a drive from Macclesfield to central Manchester

The Rats Part Two: Poplar and the Regent’s Canal

The Rats Part One: Whitechapel to Stepney

Dracula Part Two: Gunpowder, graves and insanity

Dracula Part One: Sea and ships, graves and benches

Woman in Black Part Two: The flat lands

The Woman in Black Part One: Yorkshire hauntings

Day of the Triffids Part Two: Escape to Sussex

Day of the Triffids Part One: Darkness falls on London!

Riddley Walker Part Two

Riddley Walker Part One

The War of the Worlds Part Two

The War of the Worlds Part One

Track down Smiley's Circus in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy': S1 Ep15

Practise being a spy in Noughties London in 'Slow Horses': S1 Ep14

Explore swinging 60s Soho with 'The Ipcress File': S1 Ep13

Discover the seamier side of 1980s Brighton & Hove with 'Dirty Weekend': S1 Ep12

Enjoy the 1930s West London & Brighton drinking holes of 'Hangover Square': S1 Ep11

Find out exactly where Pinkie lived & died in 'Brighton Rock': S1 Ep10

Using Lovejoy novels to navigate 1970s Essex: S1 Ep9

Walk across Suffolk with 'The Rings of Saturn' as your only guide: S1 Ep8

Plan your own 1943 invasion of Norfolk using 'The Eagle Has Landed': S1 Ep7

A 1950s pub crawl through South London with 'The Ballad of Peckham Rye': S1 Ep6

1880s London West End erotica & beer-drinking with 'The Secret Agent': S1 Ep5

Tramp the Old Ways in 1970s Eton and Windsor with 'The Dark Is Rising': S1 Ep4

Learn to drive down the A20 like Bond in 'Moonraker': S1 Ep3

S1 Ep 2 Extra: Eccleshare on Stig

A tour of rural Kent in search of Stig of the Dump: S1 Ep2

Travel to 1840s Rochester with 'Edwin Drood': S1 Ep1 (pilot)