Londonist Out Loud

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're at the Sherlock Holmes Hotel with Bonnie MacBird, screenwriter, producer, novelist and Sherlock Holmes enthusiast.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A bumper episode - N Quentin Woolf meets Russell Edwards, who thinks he's unmasked Jack the Ripper. Except the interview takes an unexpected turn...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

N Quentin Woolf heads to Nunhead in south east London to discover how the local community saved the historic Ivy House pub.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week N Quentin Woolf meets Claire Sexton of the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History Society for a tour round Rotherhithe past and present.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

N Quentin Woolf meets Chris Roberts at the Victoria Embankment Gardens to talk about the controversial Garden Bridge proposal.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week N Quentin Woolf meets Lisa Belletty and Zion Zakari of the Fostering Network, to hear about fostering in London.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.