Proving that video really didn’t kill the radio star, the 40th anniversary of the Beeb’s London radio station will be celebrated today with a lunchtime classic clips show presented by airwave legend, Tony Blackburn. Now known as BBC London 94.9, the station has been providing …
How much space would the Pentagon take up if, for some absurd reason, it had been built in Trafalgar Square? How about the Giza pyramids? Or Stonehenge? Or even a deep sea trawler net? And did you know that the deepest hole ever drilled, if …
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson / image from the BBC “Most people blunder around this city and all they see are streets and shops and cars; walk with Sherlock Holmes, you see the battlefield.” What? No way. Is he …
The Antiques Roadshow is coming to the British Museum. Shut up, this is cool. Dig out your Ming vases / Staffordshire pottery / that weird thing you picked up at a car boot sale and take them along to Bloomsbury on 2 September to be …
London’s greatest musical festival, the BBC Proms kicks off this evening for the first night of nine weeks worth of events. The first night is dedicated to the 150th anniversary celebrations of Mahler’s birth and is set to be quite the intense opener with over …
The BBC has taken a tour (video) around St Mary’s tube station for part of their ongoing series, The London Nobody Knows. Opened in 1884, the station was situated between Whitechapel and Aldgate East; when the latter shifted eastwards and opened a new entranceway just …
Know any acrobatic squirrels they could talk to? Is London’s most acrobatic squirrel raiding your bird feeders or are there birds nesting on your balcony? Have you ever met a Cockney badger or witnessed mallard gang rape? Have you seen a snake slithering along the …
The weekend saw almost constant coverage of nothing in particular happening in Westminster, so today we decided to take a walk around the media circus that still remains to see what a mammoth effort goes into telling us that nothing in particular is happening. The …
All is not what it seems at The Invisible Dot‘s Swiss Spaghetti Harvest Festival, as they celebrate – appropriate to the season – the many ways the public has been duped by the media into believing a load of old bunkum. The third film to …
Photo / Daniel_C_C A report by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has accused the BBC, among other broadcasters, of being too biased towards London, and “culturally neglecting” the country’s hinterland beyond the twelve-lane bracelet of the M25. Beeb-bashing is nothing new, and in certain sections …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 28th December 1065: Westminster Abbey is consecrated by Edward the Confessor, a week before his death. Tuesday – 29th December 1940: During the course of a massive air raid, London sustains so much damage that the night is …
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