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Conrad Hotel Confidential
It’s a hotel, a pub, an art gallery, a very special rendezvous, a backstage pass to Westminster, a living scrapbook of political London, a motherlode…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Wishing the poet a Happy Birthday
A birthday bash that’s yet another chapter in the Literary London Saga.
9 months ago
The Man Who Turned London Upside Down
On the anniversary of his death, a rollicking, street-level wander through the life of John Gay – author of The Beggar’s Opera and Trivia – who turne…
9 months ago
The Woman Who Changed Everything
She was the woman who changed everything. Before her, the English stage was a men-only club – boys playing girls, audiences roaring for comedy but ne…
9 months ago
Birkbeck – London’s Night-School Miracle
A vivid, anecdotal wander through the story of Birkbeck, London’s great evening college: born in the age of gaslight, dedicated to workers hungry for…
9 months ago
Yuletide Birdcast
A festive flourish with extras. Nary a hint here about the extras – you'll have to listen to the piece. But the main course is a little appetiser fro…
9 months ago
Hail and Farewell
A reflective, elegiac tribute to Tom Stoppard, marking his death at 88. The piece traces his journey from a childhood shaped by exile to his life as …
9 months ago
London gets up a head of steam
On November 29th, 1814, in a cramped London workshop smelling of hot metal and wet ink, Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer’s steam-driven printing pr…
9 months, 1 week ago
Hampstead’s Wicked Little Secret
Fade in. Church Row, Hampstead. Late Victorian London. A perfect Georgian house, all calm exteriors and candlelit windows. Inside, one of the most ex…
9 months, 1 week ago
Tree-mendous London
Step into London at its most dazzling. From designer hotel lobbies to elegant Georgian squares, from grand department stores to quiet, candle-scented…
9 months, 1 week ago