Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s guests are Francis Marshall, Senior Curator of Art, and George Young, Senior Curator of Contemporary History at the Museum of London Docklands. 

The guests take a tour of the museum’s latest exhibition, Estuary, while discussing the landscape, history and influence of this compelling environment.

Estuary opens today at Museum of London Docklands and runs until 27 October 2013. Open daily 10am-6pm, free entry. 

See also:

• The abandoned Estuary sea forts
• Museums of London’s upcoming late event with live entertainment, food, drink and a Londonist-hosted quiz

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Show notes by Ruth Hargreaves.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s guest is Robert Opie, founder of the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising. 

The pair tour the museum, discuss the history of product advertising and to what extent brands reflect contemporary culture and lifestyle.

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Show notes by Ruth Hargreaves.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s guest is Ross Hayes, an Animal Attendent Supervisor at Heathrow Airport’s Animal Reception Centre.

The pair take a tour of the Animal Reception Centre and discuss the work done at Heathrow and other airports to control the arrival of animals into this country.

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Show notes by Matt Brown.

Royal Observatory Greenwich

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s guest is Dr Marek Kukula, who is Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. 

The pair discuss the incredible influence that the Royal Observatory Greenwich has had on our perception of time and space both for our planet, and the entire universe. We are also introduced to some amazing artefacts and learn how they have helped make the modern world what it is today.

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Show notes by Ruth Hargreaves.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes to you from Sir John Soane’s Museum with guest Dr Frances Sands, Catalogue Editor at the museum. 

The pair explore this house museum, which was the home of Sir John Soane, leading architect of his generation and Professor or Architecture at the Royal Academy, until his death in 1837. They discuss the home’s history, Soane’s work, and of course the varied paintings, sculptures, antiquities, books and drawings that make up his extensive collection.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes to you from the exhibition Fate, Hope and Charity at The Foundling Museum. The guests are Janette Bright, independent researcher of the exhibition and Stephanie Chapman, the curator. 

The trio discuss the history of the Foundling Hospital, where between 1741-60 impoverished or unfortunate mothers could leave their children. They use the exhibition to explore the touching stories behind some of the families who made use of the hospital and also reveal how they are able to piece some of these stories back together.

Fate, Hope and Charity is at The Foundling Museum until 19 May 2013.

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Image by Tom Cronin.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from St James Studio in Victoria. This week’s guests are:

• Fiona-Jane Weston, actress, singer and cabaret artiste
• Kathy Brown, ringleader of London Street Games and writer of London Treasure Trails
• James Albrecht, associate artistic director of the St James Theatre

The guests discuss recent London news and features, including London’s best museums, the joys of London history, repurposed toilets, London housing and poverty issues, a Tube puzzle, London pub news, the redevelopment of the Olympic Park, and a new series of books themed around Tube lines. Fiona-Jane and Kathy also take part in the historical quiz.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Whitechapel Gallery, with guest Clive Bettington, Chairman of the Jewish East End Celebration Society. The pair discuss the fascinating Jewish history of east London.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes to you from The Ginstitute on Portobello Road with gin instructor and all-round gin expert, Jake F Burger.

Jake provides an enlightening education on the long and miserable history of gin, including how its turbulent past is deeply entwined with London. The pair then take a look at some gin-related treasures in the basement museum, before proceeding upstairs to The Still Room to concoct a bespoke, one-of-a-kind Londonist Out Loud gin.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes to you from All Hallows by the Tower with the director of London Historians, Mike Paterson.

As the pair tour the oldest church in London they discuss its blighted history, the historical figures who are inexorably linked to it, and its past and present connections with the City of London.

Discover the eclectic treasures stored in the Crypt Museum, find out whose headless bodies were carried to the church for burial, and where the phrase ‘dim as a Toc-h lamp’ comes from. 

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes to you from next to a chilly railway line with transport journalist, historian and editor of www.londonreconnections.com, Gareth Edwards.

Under discussion are the railways, both in London and nationally. The pair delve into the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, its scale, the medical response at the time and its legacy. Also find out Transport for London’s response to the question: where do all the newspapers left on their trains and buses go?

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. The show comes from The Fleece Station in Deptford, hang-out of this week’s guests.

• Lauren O’Farrell, knitter and organiser of Stitch London
• Sarah McIntyre, illustrator and writer
• Gary Northfield, creator of children’s comics

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Soho Theatre, with guest Chris Coltrane, a political comedian, activist and unashamedly outspoken leftie.

Topics of conversation include the cuts to Lewisham Hospital, tax avoidance, the Pinnacle pickle, Crossrail 2, Boris Bike expansion, local news channels and improvements to the National Theatre.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Atlantis Book Shop, and looks at the more mystical side of London, with two guests whose interests include folklore, magic and the occult. Needless to say, the name Aleister Crowley gets a mention or two.

• Nigel of Bermondsey: Who describes himself as a site-specific troubadour and post-rationalist, and runs the South East London Folklore Society
• Geraldine Beskin of Atlantis Bookshop

The guests discuss occult London before turning to the week’s news. Topics include the aftermath of the Vauxhall helicopter crash, airport expansion, busker auditions, London’s rubbish and littering, transport updates, LGBT History Month and other matters.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the Heygate Estate in Walworth, with professional storyteller Vanessa Woolf-Hoyle. The pair tour the condemned estate, discussing its history, future and cultural significance.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show, from BBC offices in Marylebone High Street.

• Callum Thorpe, singer and musician
• Oliver Clarke, musical administrator
• Daisy Evans, Director of Silent Opera

The guests discuss the week’s London news and features, including the Vauxhall helicopter crash, Westminster’s legal challenge against the EU’s sex shop regulations, parking problems, phone theft in London, London’s dullest wall, the Shard’s viewing gallery, and the closure of fire stations.

Daisy Evans then introduces Silent Opera’s L’Orfeo at Trinity Buoy Wharf. The usual historical quiz follows.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show, from the Museum of London, highlighting the current Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men exhibition.

This week’s guests are:

• Sharon Ament, Director of the Museum of London
• Neil Denny, producer and presenter of the Little Atoms podcast

The guests discuss the week’s London news and features, including cycling developments, the suspension of the Blue Plaque scheme, a map of pubs, attacks on the Tube, London’s 200 museums, the Old Flo sculpture, and a tour of the museum’s new exhibition.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show, from Rocket on Bishopsgate, is a special episode, looking ahead to what 2013 holds for London. All three guests this week are drawn from Londonist’s writing team:

• Matt Brown, Editor of Londonist
• Rachel Holdsworth
• Beth Parnell-Hopkinson

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show is a special episode, looking back at some of the highlights from the show during 2012, a remarkable year for London.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from L. Ron Hubbard’s Fitzroy House.

This week’s guests are:

Tim Vyner: artist, educator and illustrator
Diane Burstein: historian, author and Blue Badge Guide
Matthew Crampton: angler and author of The Trebor Story

News and Views

Our guests look back on 2012 including the Olympic effect and the transformation of east London. Under discussion is iPad art, finding the unexpected on London’s streets, air pollution, bygone sweets, the 2011 census, Twitter, visual representations of London and the strange tradition of Santacon.

Our question of the week is what have you put in to London in 2012 and what have you got out? And the guests are tested with a bumper historical quiz.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the Museum of Writing at Senate House (pictured).

This week’s guests are:

• Mark Duncan: Artistic Director of Cornucopia Theatre Company
• Gareth Edwards: Historian and Editor of London Reconnections
• Tom Miles: Project Co-ordinator Museum of Writing
• Alan Cole: Original collector Museum of Writing

Under discussion: fountain pens through the ages, the invention of Christmas crackers (including some very bad jokes), an urban panto project, the completion of London Overground, World War II bomb sites, Wi-Fi for cabs, as-yet undeciphered handwriting, homelessness and rare meat in Westminster.

Our question of the week is ‘What gadgets, widgets or apps might London be in need of?’. As usual, the guests are tested with the historical quiz.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the Horniman Museum

This week’s guests are:

• Paolo Viscardi: Deputy Keeper of Natural History at the Horniman Museum and zoological blogger
• Geoff Marshall: Former holder of the record for visiting all the Tube stations in one day, blogger and film-maker

Under discussion: the wonders of the Horniman Museum, including the famous walrus; the Great Smog of 1952, the closure of A&E units, the ‘Honesty Shop’ in St Katharine Docks, drunk and disorderly behaviour, London’s changing skyline, future transport plans and Boris Johnson’s trip to India. Our question of the week is ‘Where is the Centre of London’. As usual, the guests are tested with the historical quiz.

Marie Benton also introduces The Choir With No Name and their upcoming gig at Union Chapel in Islington on 11 December.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Birkbeck College

This week’s guests are:

• Chris Moncrieff, journalist, former political editor of the Press Association, and the man after whom Moncrieff’s press bar in the Houses of Parliament is named
• Stephen Walter, artist and creator of The Island map of London, and the recent subterranean map
• Jerry White, noted London historian and expert.

Under discussion: Jerry’s trilogy of London history books, Chris’s political adventures, Stephen’s detailed maps of the city, the naked man of Whitehall, squatting in commercial properties, the 50% of Londoners who want to get out and the prettiest sights in London.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Cafe OTO in Dalston.

This week’s guest is Sam Lee, Mercury-nominated folk musician. Cafe OTO’s Hamish Dunbar also contributes.

Under discussion, the London folk scene, the changing face of Dalston, changes to London’s emergency services, the housing shortage, favourite London music experiences, confusion over Abbey Road, a new bridge over the Thames, cycling round London, a defecating statue outside City Hall, and the beauty of Victoria Park.

And find out how Sam Lee does in the Londonist Out Loud history quiz.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Hampton Court Palace.

This week’s guest is Mathew Lyons: writer and historian, author of The Favourite: Ambition, Politics and Love – Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth I’s Court.

Under discussion, Elizabeth England, public/private space, the Houses of Parliament, London Overground and other top stories from the week. Our guest faces a double grilling over London’s “golden oldies” and, as ever, the historical quiz.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Rich Mix on Bethnal Green Road.

The guests this week are:

• Neil Fraser: author of Over the Border: the Other East End
• Trystan Shaw: photographer of London phone boxes

The guests discuss their own projects and recent London news and features. Topics include the changing nature of the East End, the possible closure of police stations and displacement of Scotland Yard, wealth differences between boroughs, public/private space, the return of London Ambassadors and Crossrail tunneling.

As ever, the guests then attempt the historical quiz.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the Wellcome Library on Euston Road.

The guests this week are:

• Ross MacFarlane, Academic Engagement Officer at the Wellcome Library
• Helen Arney, comedian and geek songstress
• Carla Connolly, pathology technician at St Bart’s (home of those gory cakes)

The guests discuss their own projects and recent London news and features. Topics include the map of London’s languages, cuts to the fire service, problems with the taxi manufacturer, Eros in a snowglobe, inequality by borough and the success of the Olympics. Ross also shows off some of the Library’s many treasures.

As ever, the guests then attempt the historical quiz.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes, RSS or Stitcher.

This week’s show is sponsored by Audible.co.uk and to celebrate we’re offering you a FREE digital audiobook from their expansive catalogue.

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Choose any title from their online library of over 60,000 digital audiobooks, with a special 30 day free trial of the Audible service. You can listen to your audiobook on all iPods, iPhones, iPads and on compatible phones and MP3 Players – you can even burn to a CD and listen in the car. Your free audiobook is yours to keep, whether you decide to cancel in your trial period or not.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the Crossbones graveyard in Southwark, an former unconsecrated burial site for London’s outcasts.

The guests this week are:

• John Constable, playwright, poet, folklorist and custodian of Crossbones graveyard
• Ingrid Beazley, supervisor, co-editor and ex-chair of the Friends Committee of Dulwich on View

The guests discuss their own projects and recent London news and features. Topics include the community sharing Street Bank scheme, the re-emergence of Occupy, the celebration of Remembrance day on the Tube, regeneration of King’s Reach Tower, Wrap Up London and cleaning up the Thames. John then takes the group on a tour of Southwark. As ever, the guests then attempt the historical quiz.

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This week’s podcast is sponsored by Doing Something, a London dating site without the awkwardness. Start by finding something fun to do — perhaps ping-pong or bowling — then look for other people who want to do it.Give it a try now.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury, which currently includes an exhibition about Charles Dickens.

• Peter Stubley: author of a new book about the other murders that happened in 1888, the year of Jack of the Ripper
• Chris West: Charles Dickens impersonator and organiser of Dickens Day for Great Ormond Street Hospital

The guests discuss their own projects, including the Londons of Charles Dickens and Jack the Ripper. Caro Howell, Director of the Foundling Museum, takes NQW for a tour of the museum’s latest exhibition on Charles Dickens’ links to the Foundling Hospital.

As usual, the guests are tested with an historical quiz, and NQW reads out some of the best upcoming shows and events around town.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes, RSS or Stitcher.

This week’s podcast is sponsored by Doing Something, a London dating site without the awkwardness. Start by finding something fun to do — perhaps ping-pong or bowling — then look for other people who want to do it.Give it a try now.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Battlebridge Basin in King’s Cross. The guests are:

• Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant and May mystery novels as well as many other things
• Fiona Rule, author of London’s Labyrinth and The Worst Street in London

The guests discuss their own projects as well as recent London news and features. Topics include: the allure of London’s history, the redevelopment of King’s Cross, underground spaces, London’s mythology, what happens to rubble from excavations, the almost forgotten Colney Hatch tragedy, Fenton the dog in book form, coats to charities and free travel for the over 60s.

As usual, the guests are tested with an historical quiz, and NQW reads out some of the best upcoming shows and events around town.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes, RSS or Stitcher.

This week’s podcast is sponsored by Doing Something, a London dating site without the awkwardness. Start by finding something fun to do — perhaps ping-pong or bowling — then look for other people who want to do it.Give it a try now.

Interested in sponsoring this podcast? Contact us on hello@londonist.com for more details.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Bethnal Green Gardens. The guests are:

• Patrick Dalton, of book and website Shit London
• Alan Gilbey, author of East End Back Passages

After grappling with how to introduce Patrick’s site without broadcasting a swearword, the guests discuss their own projects as well as recent London news and features. Topics include: the modern East End, the Andrew Mitchell scandal, viruses and dangerous cats, Time Out’s new launch as a free rag, the Walkie Talkie building, cuts to the fire service budget, and complaints about bus drivers.

The guests also take part in the usual historical quiz, and NQW runs through upcoming events and exhibitions.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes, RSS or Stitcher.

This week’s podcast is sponsored by Doing Something, a London dating site without the awkwardness. Start by finding something fun to do — perhaps ping-pong or bowling — then look for other people who want to do it. Give it a try now.

Interested in sponsoring this podcast? Contact us on hello@londonist.com for more details.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Bermondsey Street. The guests this week are:

• Sian Meades, Founding Editor of Domestic Sluttery
• Lara Hailey, artist who recreated the Peckham peace wall as a patchwork quilt

The guests discuss their own projects as way as recent London news and features. Topics include the changing face of Peckham, an extension to the cycle scheme, the history of sex at Hampton Court, a new Mario Testino exhibition, the Cutty Sark’s carbuncle award, London’s newly listed structures, Mayor’s Question Time, and changes to squatting laws.

The guests also take part in the usual historical quiz, and NQW runs through upcoming events and exhibitions.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes, RSS or Stitcher.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from Conway Hall in Holborn. The guests this week are:

• Sid Rodrigues – host of London Skeptics in the Pub
• Geoff Marshall – film-maker, former record holder for visiting all the Tube stations, and creator of the Station Master app.
• James Hyland – adaptor, performer and producer of Fagin’s Last Hour.

The guests discuss their own projects as way as recent London news and features. Topics include Tube trivia, the history of Conway Hall, Tube accessibility ramps, the ongoing airport expansion saga, Boris Johnson’s mayoral style, filming Dickens and things London can look forward to.

The guests also take part in the usual historical quiz.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes or RSS.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from South Molton Street in Mayfair, at the Crossrail archaeological exhibition. NQW tours the exhibition, picking out some of the highlights and interviewing visitors and archaeologists.

The guests this week are:

• Ursula Lawrence, Geotechnical Engineer, Crossrail
• Robert Hartle, Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London
• Caroline Derry, Caroline’s Miscellany
• Ambrose Hide, London Black Plaques
• Jay Carver, Project Archaeologist, Crossrail

The guests discuss their own projects as well as recent London news and features.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes or RSS.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.

This week’s show features an interview with Murray Craig, Clerk of the Chamberlain’s Court at Guildhall, who explains some of the historical traditions, honours and institutions of the City of London.

Before the interview, NQW discusses recent London news, including Boris Johnson’s half-hatched scheme to run cycle lanes along rail lines, affordable rent, online bookings for Open House London and wheelchair advice for bus drivers. He also sets an historical quiz, with answers at the end of the show.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes or RSS.

Kindertransport memorial, Liverpool Street

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show includes a tour of the Jewish East End with Blue Badge Guide and co-author of new book, Jewish London, Rachel Kolsky.

Today’s podcast includes several ways to while away the hours, wondering whether London exists, admiring knitted Olympians and tracking London’s air traffic. NQW poses his usual historical quiz with answers at the end of the podcast.

This week NQW walks the Jewish East End with tour guide, Rachel Kolsky, discussing the history of immigration, the changing face of Spitalfields and admiring an enclave of miraculously well-preserved historic streets. They also meet a Pearly Mandeville.

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Guildhall in the City of London.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show includes an interview with Peter Rees, Planning Officer for the City of London.

Today’s topics include how London’s mood changed during the Olympics, readers’ opinions about the Games, the London Stone and the Blue Plaque Scheme. NQW poses his usual historical quiz at the beginning of the podcast and gives the answers at the end of the show.

NQW interviews Peter Rees, who is the Planning Officer for the City of London, talking about his tasks and typical working day. He also gives us an update on the stalled Pinnacle building, and tells us that “even Milton Keynes will be habitable one day”.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show visits the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court.

His interviewee this week is:

• Charles Henty, Under-Sheriff and Secondary of London

Today’s topics include the impact of the Olympics Opening Ceremony, a popularity boost for Boris, Londonist readers’ comments on what minor changes they’d like to see to our city, the unexpectedly good public transport during the Games, the complaints of shops in Oxford Street and Covent Garden about decreasing trade due to the Olympics, changes to the Olympic Route Network, plaques in the Olympic Park, and alternative events during the Games.

NQW interviews Charles Henty, who runs the Old Bailey, talking about the traditions and history of the court. He also shares stories with us from the everyday life of the court.

NQW also rounds up the week’s best openings and events.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

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Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show visits the Florence Nightingale Museum’s ‘Bone’ exhibition.

The guests this week are:

• Rhiannon Armstrong, artist and curator of the ‘Bone’ exhibition.
• Simon Gould, curator of the ‘Bone’ exhibition.

NQW discusses recent London news and features. Today’s topics include the Olympics Opening Ceremony and Twitter comments about it, the number of Boris bikes users, Critical Mass, the occasionally overreacting attitude of British police, getting around the city during the Games, problems with TfL’s Journey Planner, Londonist’s new E-book on The London Olympics, and the usual historical quiz, for which you can hear the answers at the end of the podcast.

NQW also rounds up the week’s best openings and events.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes or RSS.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from London Bridge and is dedicated to the family of Ian Tomlinson.

The guests this week are:

• Lloyd Shepherd, author of The English Monster
• Mike Paterson, director of London Historians

The guests discuss their own projects as well as recent London news and features. Today’s topics include Olympic militarisation, Tobacco Dock, opinions and feelings about the Olympics, Londoners’ advice to tourists coming for the Olympics, the Doggett’s Coat and Badge race , the London Eye’s changing colour based on positive and negative Twitter comments, and Olympic merchandise, all followed by an historical quiz.

NQW also rounds up the week’s best openings and events, and treats the guests to an historical quiz.

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