Episode Details

The Ghosts of Piccadilly by George Slythe Street audiobook.

Genre: history

In The Ghosts of Piccadilly, British critic and satirist G. S. Street turns one of London's most famous thoroughfares into a after-hours promenade through memory. The 'ghosts' here are not supernatural apparitions, but the lingering presence of the men and women who once lived, argued, flirted, schemed, and celebrated behind Piccadilly's townhouse facades and club doors - along with the vanished buildings that shaped the street's character. Street guides the listener from address to address, pausing at quiet doorways to spin anecdotes drawn from letters, gossip, and biographical fragments. His tour is deliberately personal rather than encyclopedic: he follows his own tastes, lingering on figures who amuse or move him, and gliding past others with dry wit. Along the way, Piccadilly becomes a miniature history of fashionable London, where reputations are made in drawing rooms, fortunes are wagered, and public lives leave private traces. By blending social history with sharply observed commentary, Street invites you to see a familiar street as a crowded stage, and to listen for the echoes still embedded in its stones.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:03) Chapter 02

(00:53:36) Chapter 03

(01:14:22) Chapter 04

(01:35:26) Chapter 05

(01:54:34) Chapter 06

(02:15:39) Chapter 07

(02:38:28) Chapter 08

(02:56:52) Chapter 09

(03:17:26) Chapter 10

(03:40:47) Chapter 11

(03:59:42) Chapter 12

(04:15:54) Chapter 13

(04:36:21) Chapter 14

(04:57:32) Chapter 15

(05:17:58) Chapter 16

(05:37:00) Chapter 17

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