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We get green this week with Daniel Raven-Ellison, who's spearheading a campaign to make London a National Park City. Find out what that means and what the status could mean for London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do we save London's pubs - as places of social, architectural and historic interest, AND as lovely places to have a drink? This week, N Quentin Woolf is at the Rose and Crown in Stoke Newington to find out what can be done to protect our pubs from the worst ravages of developers, the economy and more. He meets the pub's landlord Martin Harley, and Emily Gee from Historic England. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Seth Kriebel creates brilliant choose your own adventure games that let you explore a building without leaving your seat. He tells N Quentin Woolf about his latest game at Battersea Arts Centre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We're at the Sherlock Holmes Hotel with Bonnie MacBird, screenwriter, producer, novelist and Sherlock Holmes enthusiast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, N Quentin Woolf goes deep into the bowels of Tower Bridge to meet Iain Chambers, who's using the sounds of the bridge to create sweet music as part of the Totally Thames festival.Photo by Steve Stills. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we're underground in Bloomsbury at the Comedy Museum. N Quentin Woolf is joined by curator David Hardcastle, finding out how on earth you can fill such a museum with exhibits, when its focus is something as abstract as comedy.Tommy Cooper photo by John Claridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the second part of our trip round some of London's most interesting pubs, Vic Norman of London Pub Tours taken N Quentin Woolf to boozers with connections with famous writers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, N Quentin Woolf meets Vic Norman, of London Pub Tours, for a trip to some of the capital's best pubs. The pub is a ubiquitous part of British life, and many of them have a varied and fascinating history, which we hear about in this week's episode. If you like the sound of the pubs in this episode, why not check the Londonist best pubs guide at londonist.com/pubs where we have selected over 400 of the capital's best boozers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Cemeteries are not among the first places one thinks of when considering a day out, but London's are not only fascinating places of history, but beautiful and peaceful places which are increasingly operating as more than places for burying the dead. This week N Quentin Woolf heads to Hampstead Cemetery to meet Sheldon Goodman, a Westminster Guide and specialist in cemeteries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A bumper episode - N Quentin Woolf meets Russell Edwards, who thinks he's unmasked Jack the Ripper. Except the interview takes an unexpected turn... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
N Quentin Woolf is at Town House, in Spitalfields, east London, where he learns about the immigration of religious refugees, the Huguenots, and hears many of their ancestors still visit the area. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
N Quentin Woolf is at the Bank of England Museum, where he hears why the bank was first established in 1694, where it was situated until it found its home on Threadneedle Street and who gave the building its distinctive look. He also hears about the development of paper currency in the UK, and gets his hands on a gold bar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
N Quentin Woolf heads to Nunhead in south east London to discover how the local community saved the historic Ivy House pub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week N Quentin Woolf meets Claire Sexton of the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History Society for a tour round Rotherhithe past and present. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
N Quentin Woolf meets Chris Roberts at the Victoria Embankment Gardens to talk about the controversial Garden Bridge proposal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do you go about setting up your own currency? N Quentin Woolf went to Brixton to meet Tom Shakhli and Max Wakefield, two of the people behind the Brixton Pound. Find out how to get it, spend it and even win a Brixton Bonus... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
News, views and interviews from around London, by N Quentin Woolf for Londonist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Croydon gets a bad rap — and unfairly. This week, N Quentin Woolf visits the beautiful Elizabethan Whitgift almshouses in the heart of the town centre to talk to people who are determined to change perceptions of this southern edge of London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Clothes. You're wearing them right now (we hope). N Quentin Woolf meets fashion historian Amber Butchart at the Hoxton Hotel in Holborn to chat about London fashionable quarters Savile Row and east London, the history of fashion and where to find out more about togs and history across London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week N Quentin Woolf meets Lisa Belletty and Zion Zakari of the Fostering Network, to hear about fostering in London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Probably the most famous cricket ground in the world, the home of the MCC is where every cricketer wants to play. The centuries of the sport are so intertwined with this club, and N Quentin Woolf uncovers some of the secrets of this past at the museum, with libraries and research manager, Neil Robinson. As well as encountering artefacts such as the famous Ashes urn, he hears how cricket was used by the British Empire, and how that legacy has endured today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
News, views and interviews from around London, by N Quentin Woolf for Londonist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Whether you know it from the song Doing The Lambeth Walk, as the home of William Blake or from the contemporary street art of the Leake Street tunnel, Lambeth has a fascinating and varied history. N Quentin Woolf meets Diane Burstein for a stroll around part of the borough. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, N Quentin Woolf meets Dr Tom Pey from the Royal London Society for Blind People, and discovers what it's like for blind people living in the city. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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London is a fertile ground for urban myth, tall tales and legend. From the story of the corpse on the tube carriage, to the Hackney bear, N Quentin Woolf explores the truth behind the city's stories with Scott Wood of the London Fortean Society. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How much do you really know about London at night? Author of Night Walking, Matthew Beaumont, talks to N Quentin Woolf about the history of the city's life after sunset. Discover a world of nightwatchmen, prostitutes, curfews, and more - a time of moral and literal darkness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do we fund 'affordable' housing and infrastructure? What is the impact of regeneration on social housing stock? Should we rethink the Green Belt? In this second of a two-part special on London's housing crisis, Londonist writers Jonn Elledge, Rachel Holdsworth and Beth Parnell-Hopkinson talk to N Quentin Woolf about the solutions being proposed and which ones make sense. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is London in a housing crisis? How bad has it got and what can be done about it? N Quentin Woolf talks to Oxford University's Professor Danny Dorling, author of books such as Inequality And The 1%; Alex Hilton, director of campaign group Generation Rent; and David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation. Featured image by Andy Worthington. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week N Quentin Woolf is at the Royal Veterinary College in Camden, where he hears how the centre has progressed the science of animal medicine, from the early days with race horses, to achieving realistic special effects in Harry Potter films. WARNING: Contains bits squeamish people might find makes them go a bit wonky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
