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. In the studio with him this week:
- Tom Bolton, author of London's Lost Rivers, a Walker's Guide
- Eoin Quiery of London band Burning Wheel
The guests discuss recent London news including the rebranding of London neighbourhoods (NoGo, Midtown et al.), the rewriting of laws to prevent ambush marketing at the Olympics, private security, magic wands in Parliament and bull's semen on a Tube train, the Thames cable car, lost rivers, boundary changes, the Brixton Pound and quirky London maps.
Events Around Town
NQW rounds up some of the best upcoming openings and events around London this week.
MusicEoin plays a ballad about one of his favourite characters on the London Underground. He then goes on to set Victorian poem London Misnomers to music.