London Walks

The Guardian

Inside guides and information on the hottest places to go from the Guardian

  • 37 minutes 5 seconds
    The Guardian Dickens walk five: Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum
    Follow a tour around the house where Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth 200 years ago
    7 February 2012, 3:20 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Dickens audio tour: Heart of the City
    Follow a walking route around the City of London to see key sites from Dickens' novels. Starting at St Mary-at-Hill and ending at St Paul's Cathedral
    2 January 2012, 12:21 pm
  • 30 minutes 33 seconds
    Dickens audio tour: David Copperfield
    Follow a walking route around key sites from the London of David Copperfield, Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. Starting at Victoria Embankment and ending near Covent Garden
    24 November 2011, 10:47 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    The Guardian Dickens audio tours: Rochester
    Download the mp3 and map. Follow a walking route through Rochester, charting the course of Charles Dickens life, in the second of three audio tours marking the Books Season
    31 October 2011, 9:35 am
  • 59 minutes 26 seconds
    The Guardian Dickens audio tours: Oliver Twist
    Download the mp3 and map follow Oliver Twist's walking route with Jon Henley and Veronica Horwell from Angel Islington to the courthouse of Mr Fang the magistrate in Clerkenwell
    23 September 2011, 3:39 pm
  • 36 minutes 43 seconds
    London walks podcast: Poetry and literature in Kensington Gardens
    The Guardian's online books editor Sarah Crown strolls through Kensington Gardens, an enduring source of inspiration for authors and poets
    23 February 2011, 12:08 pm
  • 37 minutes 34 seconds
    London walks podcast: Islington's pub theatres
    The Guardian's online arts editor Andrew Dickson walks us through London's vibrant fringe theatre scene, where the likes of Hugh Grant and the Mighty Boosh cut their teeth
    2 February 2011, 3:27 pm
  • 40 minutes 48 seconds
    London walks podcast: Ghostly Bermondsey
    The fourth in our series of six downloadable London walks takes us to Bermondsey, an area rich with history, and full of legends and superstitions
    10 January 2011, 10:23 am
  • 40 minutes 21 seconds
    London walks podcast: Oxford Circus
    The third of our series of six downloadable London walking guides sees architecture critic Jonathan Glancey looking beyond the shop windows around Oxford Street
    15 November 2010, 10:36 am
  • 31 minutes 37 seconds
    London walks podcast: Coffee house tour
    Coffee connoisseur Matt Green walks us through the coffee houses of London, from the atmospheric 17th-century to the present day, from Covent Garden to Soho
    25 October 2010, 9:40 am
  • 35 minutes 11 seconds
    London walks podcast: Iain Sinclair's Thames
    In the first of six downloadable London walking guides sponsored by Visit London, Iain Sinclair discovers characters and stories from the Millennium Dome to the Thames barrier
    8 October 2010, 8:58 am
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