Londonist Out Loud: Recent Episodes
N Quentin Woolf
Londonist Out Loud is a weekly podcast devoted to life, history and culture in London, UK. Join novelist N Quentin Woolf (www.nquentinwoolf.com) and his special guests, as he peels off the skin of the city and delves into deep-level London, discovering new and hidden qualities of the capital. Recommended by the Telegraph and the Guardian.
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Heather Agyepong is this week's guest, and the credit for the cover picture is hers.
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This week's guest is Peter Watts.
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This week's special quiz features 30 questions for the Londonphile, taken from Curiocity by Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose, The National Geographic London Book of Lists by Tim Jepson and Larry Porges, and Everything You Know About London Is Wrong by Matt Brown. Photo by Matt Brown.
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A look back at 2016, and the 6 most miserable clips from the last 12 months of Londonist Out Loud. Thanks to Sheldon Goodman, Rob Smith, Eva Mak, Sarah Wise, Katie Wignall, Alice Bell, Max Wakefield and Katie Harris.
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This week we're at the Royal Festival Hall with Larry Porges, previously an editor at National Geographic, a London-lover who co-wrote the London Book of Lists, an illustrated compendium covering the city’s best, worst, highest, smallest, first, last, and everything in-between.
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This week's guests are Vicky Lane and Tim White
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In this episode we're talking toys with Catherine Howell collections manager at the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London.
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This week's guest is John Boughton
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My guest this week is Rachel Kolsky. Picture credit: Louis Berk
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This week's guest is Rachel Kolsky. Pictures copyright Louis Berk.
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John McKiernan of Platform 7 is this week's guest
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Jesse Scharf and Alice Bell are this week's guests.
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This week's guest is Caroline Shenton.
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Brace yourself - it's all doom and gloom in this podcast. Rob Smith from Footprints of London to hear about dystopian presentations of London. From Boudicca to HG Wells, there have been many tales of the city being destroyed. Join us on this terrifying journey...
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This week's guest is Henry Eliot
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Jamie Owens is this week's guest.
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Tina Baxter is this week's guest.
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Ben Judah is this week's guest
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This week we're learning the skills of bushcraft in London with Wendy Paton.
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What's it like being one of London's 'knights of the road' - a cycle courier? We meet Jon Day to find out...
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The 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London is September 2016, so we're visiting The Monument with David Laird, and taking a trip to the top of the doric column in the City.
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The rather unassuming facade of Ben Uri in St John's Wood hides one of the best collections of emigre art in the country. We went to find out more about this fascinating place with learning manager, Katie Harris and Artuner's Eva Mak.You can read Eva's article on the gallery here: http://www.artuner.com/insight/best-kept-secrets-finale-ben-uri-gallery-museum/.
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In the second world war some 40,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped on London. What was that like, and what effect did such a bombardment have on the population? We find out with this week's guest, Robert Fleming, manager of the Templer Study Centre.
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Sarah Wise is this week's guest.
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This week's guest is our own Matt Brown.
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This week NQW talks to food expert Kim Smith of Gluten-Free Gatherings about eating on a restricted diet in London, finds out where to eat like a caveman, and uncovers her past in the murky world of artificial flavourings and ready meals...
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Guests this week are Sue Sinton Smith, Rachel Matthews and Liz Clough.
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This week we're at the home of Alfred Hitchcock, Leystonstone, with Dee Wood.
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A trip to Leighton House Museum with Daniel Robbins. Photo by Will Pryce.
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Ben Pedroche shows N Quentin Woolf around King's Cross - and an abandoned tube station.Picture credit: dakota_boo from the Londonist Flickr pool
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We're at the world’s first purpose-built public art gallery - Dulwich Picture Gallery - with Ian Dejardin, the gallery's Sackler Director. The gallery is one of London's most wonderful gems, and owner of one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the world.
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We're at the Museum of Immigration just off Brick Lane with Susie Symes, chair of trustees at 19 Princelet Street -- aka the Museum of Immigration.London wouldn't be what it is without immigration across the ages. Here we're exploring what that's meant for the city and how refugees, economic migrants, and other immigrants have changed the face of the capital.
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Lace up your running shoes: this week we're in the City of London with Amy Coats and Vanessa Cain are this week's guests, who run secret running tours of London. Yes, that means jogging between the sites...
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Mike Althorpe is this week's guest as we take a walk through Regent's Park.
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We're looking at a pile of salt -- but don't worry, we haven't gone mad, it's an installation by artist Philip Hall Patch, at Elements Gallery. Rebecca Feiner tells us more.
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This week we find out about London's energy with Alice Bell and Max Wakefield.
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N Quentin Woolf and Mathew Lyons duke it out with the weather and aircraft noise at Chiswick House to discuss how the history of London got made. Photo: shadow_in_the_water
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This week NQW heads to Salieri, the longest-standing family-run restaurant on the Strand, to hear from not just the owners but the Federation of Small Businesses about the pressures being faced in London as property prices rise and rise.
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David Fathers, author of The London Thames Path, joins N Quentin Woolf for a real time walk along the river from the Thames Barrier to Greenwich.
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London's Tin Pan Alley is one of the most musical areas of the city. But it's seen huge change and redevelopment in recent years, with many concerned about it losing it character. We meet Henry Scott-Irvine of the Save Tin Pan Alley campaign.Photo credit: Terry O'Neil
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Sheldon Goodman is this week's guest as we head to West Norwood Cemetery to hear about the history of one of the Magnificent Seven, the famous people interred there and some fascinating trivia.
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Chef Michelle Francis is this week's guest, as we go on a tour of Soho via its food.
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Clare Skelton talks about FoodCycle's work taking unused food and cooking meals for vulnerable people.
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Alice May Williams talks about her film Dream City – More, Better, Sooner, a meditation on the changing face of Battersea Power Station.
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We explore the back alleys around Embankment with Katie Wignall of Look Up London. Plus we meet an underwater photographer and find out where to get a cup of coffee for £1 near Temple tube. Seriously.
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Yannick Pucci and N Quentin Woolf go in search of green tea.
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Geoff Leong is this week's guest.
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The Coronet in Notting Hill was built as an opera house in 1898 and has since been a theatre and more recently a cinema. In 2014 it was bought by fringe theatre The Print Room. Anda Winters explains how the group is bringing it back to its former glory.
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N Quentin Woolf goes on a tour round (the) Strand with Vic Norman of London Pub Tours, digging up some fascinating trivia and history on the way. Oh, and stopping on the way at a gin palace, London's oldest wine bar and the only pub that's in two halves.
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Vic Norman of London Pub Tours takes N Quentin Woolf on a tour of three pubs around Temple and Strand.
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This week we're on the fringes of Soho to meet Andreas Kambanis of one of the capital's best cycling blogs, londoncyclist.co.uk. N Quentin Woolf puts his own personal problems with cycling to Andreas. Can he convince him to change he mind?
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N Quentin Woolf goes into the vaults with Stuart Black and Ioanna Karavela to talk about what will be big in London film this year.
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This week, we look back at some of the highlights from the last 12 months of Londonist Out Loud. We travel across the city and through time, with Matthew Beaumont, Anna Spender, Caroline Shenton, Yannick Pucci and Claire Sexton. If you missed any of these episodes, make sure to check the archive, where you'll find a London treasure trove. Photo by EZTD from Flickr.
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Soho is synonymous with the creative industries, and every year it's home to the Soho Create festival, which brings together people from a host of disciplines to talk and share experiences. In this episode we meet festival CEO Tom Harvey, who tells us more about the endeavour.
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The East End has long been a hotbed of rebellion and social change. In this podcast, N Quentin Woolf meets David Rosenberg, author of Rebel Footprints a guide to the history of protest and struggle in this part of London.
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Who introduced the Christmas tree to London? Tina Baxter and Miss Kitty take us on a tour of parts of the City to tell us about Georgian London -- and Christmas in particular, where we hear their theory on how the tree came to be part of celebrations.
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Should Twitter trolls be prosecuted for their horrible views? Should people who tell racist jokes receive threats of violence? These are some of the tricky issues being tackled by London organisation, English Pen, which defends the people's freedom of expression.
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Of all London's children Samuel Pepys must be one of the best-known and loved. His diaries recorded the city at a time of incredible change -- not least the most devastating fire in its history. This week we are given a tour of the National Maritime Museum's blockbuster exhibition dedicated to the great man, by curators Robert Blyth and Kris Martin. Image (c) National Portrait Gallery.
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This week's guest is Dr Christine Corton, Lady Evans, talking about London fogs past and present.
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Victoria Northridge and Paul Reid from the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton talk about black Londoners, particularly from the Georgian era.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're at the Sherlock Holmes Hotel with Bonnie MacBird, screenwriter, producer, novelist and Sherlock Holmes enthusiast.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A bumper episode - N Quentin Woolf meets Russell Edwards, who thinks he's unmasked Jack the Ripper. Except the interview takes an unexpected turn...
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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.
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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.
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N Quentin Woolf heads to Nunhead in south east London to discover how the local community saved the historic Ivy House pub.
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This week N Quentin Woolf meets Claire Sexton of the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History Society for a tour round Rotherhithe past and present.
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N Quentin Woolf meets Chris Roberts at the Victoria Embankment Gardens to talk about the controversial Garden Bridge proposal.
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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...
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News, views and interviews from around London, by N Quentin Woolf for Londonist.
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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.
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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.
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This week N Quentin Woolf meets Lisa Belletty and Zion Zakari of the Fostering Network, to hear about fostering in London.
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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.
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News, views and interviews from around London, by N Quentin Woolf for Londonist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This week, N Quentin Woolf follows in the footsteps Dickens, Ruskin and Tennyson as he visits the home of Thomas and Jane Carlyle in Chelsea. He meets custodian, Lin Skippings, who actually lives in the home of the renowned 19th century social commentators. She shows him around the building, noting quite how much has changed in the area since the couple lived there - not least how salubrious the area has become.
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This week, N Quentin Woolf meets political activist and Levellers expert John Rees, to discuss the rise and fall of this 17th century political movement, and what their legacy is in London and the rest of the UK.
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The life and times of the UK’s smallest cetacean in our busiest waterway. N Quentin Woolf goes to Ipswich to get a tour of the research vessel Song of the Whale, and learn more about our cetacean friends, the Harbour Porpoises.
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The word Bedlam conjures up thoughts of an 'asylum' and all sorts of negative connotations around the way people with mental illness were treated in the past. Today the situation couldn't be more different: the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham is a specialist in mental health matters, and home to a fascinating museum about the subject. N Quentin Woolf takes us on a tour of the new museum and hears about the history of the institution.
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Be honest with yourself - exactly how much do you know about Art Deco? You may be able to identify the style, but can you be more specific than that?This week, N Quentin Woolf goes to Bloomsbury to meet tour guide Yannick Pucci, who explains more about the style, and gives a tour of the wonderful Tavistock Court.
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N Quentin Woolf is joined by Dr Simon Chaplin, director of culture and society at the Wellcome Trust, where the renowned library has been refurbished and transformed into a place not just for serious science but furthering the trust's mission of engaging the public. In his former role as Head of the Wellcome Library, Simon oversaw the physical and digital transformation of this great medical history resource into one of the world's most innovative libraries.
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This week N Quentin Woolf is at Westminster Hall - the historic heart of the British parliament. He hears from Caroline Shenton, author of The Day Parliament Burnt Down, about the incredible moment in 1834 when the houses of parliament were destroyed by fire, leading to the building of the iconic Victorian gothic structures known worldwide. Westminster Hall itself was only saved by heroic firefighting efforts.
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What's the latest in London's cocktail scene? How old fashioned is an Old Fashioned? N Quentin Woolf heads up high to Aqua Shard to meet head of bars Miles Donneky and cocktail writer Janan Jay and hear about what the current trends and why London leads the world in this community.
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This week, N Quentin Woolfe meets Sheyi Bankale, editor of Next Level magazine, which highlights photography as a form of fine art. The two discuss what identifies London's photographic scene and the forthcoming Hackney edition of the magazine.
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A listen back at the last 12 months of our podcast.
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Discussing our favourite Londonist stories from 2014.
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The first Chinatown and the original Olympic village.
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You thought the Suffragettes were long gone? Think again.
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Shooting the breeze with a pageant master.
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N Quentin Woolf with mind maps, cycling, news and views.
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An edible playground in Streatham.
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Panoramas of the Thames' past and present.
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The history and culture of Hackney, with N Quentin Woolf.
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Londonist is 10 years old - here's the story.
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The power of libraries and left-wing politics.
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A peek inside Goldfinger's flat at Balfron Tower.
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A nostalgic amble through Stratford.
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A journey into London's nooks and crannies.
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Ever heard of a dwarf elephant?
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How does London handle its old paperwork?
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One man and his giant ball of tights, with N Quentin Woolf.
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This week's broadcast comes from Feast food festival in Tobacco Dock.
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A newsagent shop entirely made of felt.
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Visiting London's sewer system.
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The bridges of London explored at Museum of London Docklands, with N Quentin Woolf.
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N Quentin Woolf talks to Robert Hulse, director of the Brunel Museum.
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Dance performances and physical theatre about Planet Earth's destruction.
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Map disputes, threats and monopolies.
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Joe Kerr is both a historian at RCA and a London bus driver.
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Spotting 'ghost signs' around town.
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N Quentin Woolf visits the home of the only newspaper press left in Fleet Street.
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The Spitalfields Music charity talks about the East End music scene, with N Quentin Woolf.
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N Quentin Woolf visits a business on the A40 with a Tardis on the roof and a missile in the warehouse.
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A special extended episode visiting The Somme, to find the role Londoners played in the WWI battle.
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The women who made history in Whitechapel.
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Trinity Buoy Wharf, with London's only real lighthouse.
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N Quentin Woolf brings us up to date with London's food scene.
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The gruesome collection of Bart's Pathology Museum.
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The history of the East India Company on focus.
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An independent publishing company based in East London.
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N Quentin Woolf talks to CEO of Thames Clippers Sean Collins about the only commuter transport where you're legally guaranteed a seat.
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Up the ArcelorMittal Orbit with N Quentin Woolf.
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A look at the history of black people in London, with N Quentin Woolf.
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N Quentin Woolf talks to Keith Best of Freedom From Torture. With content that some listeners may find disturbing.
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Exploring Chiswick House and Gardens with N Quentin Woolf.
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How London Bridge moved to America, with N Quentin Woolf.
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Should shops keep their front doors closed? N Quentin Woolf investigates.
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Around London Bridge and Borough Market, with N Quentin Woolf.
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Can music stop prisoners reoffending? With N Quentin Woolf.
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Poetry and plants in the library, with N Quentin Woolf.
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The best bits of 2013, with N Quentin Woolf.
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A look back at 2013 in London, with N Quentin Woolf.
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Up the Oxo Tower with N Quentin Woolf.
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London news dissected by a KaraUke ukuleleist and the editor of Open Pen Magazine, with N Quentin Woolf
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N Quentin Woolf meets a volunteer who works to shed light on underrepresented issues such as poverty, sleeping rough and social housing crises.
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N Quentin Woolf meets The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London, at Mansion House.
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Inside the National Army Museum in Chelsea, with N Quentin Woolf.
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Behind the scenes at the Museum of London Dockland's Estuary exhibition, with N Quentin Woolf.
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An insight into the history of branding at the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, with N Quentin Woolf.
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Inside Heathrow Airport's Animal Reception Centre, with N Quentin Woolf.
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Discover what Sir Isaac Newton 'borrowed' and how Sir Patrick Moore helped put man on the moon, at the Royal Observatory Greenwich with N Quentin Woolf.
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A look at the dynamic collection of leading 18th century architect Sir John Soane, with N Quentin Woolf.
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A touching look at the Foundling Hospital where many unwanted children were left in the eighteenth century.
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London games, history, pubs and museums, plus a look around the St James Theatre.
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The history of the Jewish East End.
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N Quentin Woolf meets Jake F Burger at The Ginstitute, for a ginteresting ginitiation ginto the ginner gintricacies of gin.
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Eclectic treasures, Christian movements and sacrificial beheadings, with N Quentin Woolf
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N Quentin Woolf meets Gareth Edwards to talk train disasters and their social impact
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Knitting, crafting, and comic books from Deptford, with N Quentin Woolf
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Politics, lolitics, activism and this week's London stories. Warning: contains opinions.
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Mystical London, from Atlantis Bookshop in Bloomsbury.
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A tour of the Heygate Estate with N Quentin Woolf and Vanessa Woolf-Hoyle.
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London's dullest wall, up the Shard, sex shops and Silent Opera. A real mix this week.
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Dissection, blue plaques, Old Flo and highlights of the Museum of London.
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A special episode in which N Quentin Woolf and guests look ahead to the next 12 months in London.
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N Quentin Woolf looks back at the highlights of 2012 for London.
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An extended Christmas edition from the offices of one of London's more controversial residents.
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From the Museum of Writing at Senate House.
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From the Horniman Museum, with N Quentin Woolf, Paolo Viscardi and Geoff Marshall.
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Jerry White, Stephen Walter and Chris Moncrieff join N Quentin Woolf to discuss recent London stories.
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Mercury-nominated Sam Lee speaks to N Quentin Woolf at Dalston's Cafe OTO.
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Elizabethan England, the week's top stories and a double quizzing with N Quentin Woolf.
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Phoneboxing, the changing East End and more, with N Quentin Woolf.
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The treasures of the Wellcome Library, medical curiosities, and London's languages.
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Crossbones cemetery, poppies on the Tube, and the history of Dulwich and Southwark.
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Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper two Bloomsbury institutions.
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Underground spaces, London mythology and secret history.
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Dangerous cats, ugly buildings, the real East End and lots of beeping.
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Cutty Sark controversy, Hampton Court naughtiness and stitched-up Peckham.
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London chat from Conway Hall in Holborn.
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Archeology of the Crossrail digs.
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The historic traditions and institutions of the City of London.
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NQW tours the Jewish East End with Rachel Kolsky.
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