This week, we wander into the beating heart of London — Covent Garden — where opera echoes off Victorian ironwork, and punk once growled beneath the colonnades. From flower girls to Blitz Kids, Handel to Bowie, Covent Garden is a stage that never goes dark.

Join JJ Creenan as he steps through the Piazza’s shifting light - past Inigo Jones’s “handsomest barn,” the echoes of Oscar Wilde’s trial, the ghost of Dryden’s quill, and the last blooms of the old flower market.

Here, cobblestones carry centuries. Every street corner hums with past lives: poets and performers, magistrates and misfits. This isn’t just a market square, it’s London’s theatre of memory.

Covent Garden doesn’t just preserve history. It performs it. 

Exploring the Soul of London, One Street at a Time is written and narrated by JJ Creenan. New episodes every week. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to keep the stories flowing and the streets speaking.

Camden doesn’t whisper its history — it shouts it in graffiti, stomps it in Doc Martens, and sings it in punk chords and Amy Winehouse lyrics. In this first episode, we wander from Camden Town Station to the summit of Primrose Hill, taking in the Irish Palace of Arlington House, the eccentric turrets of the Pirate Castle, and the ritual hydraulics of Camden Lock.

Exploring the Soul of London, One Street at a Time is written and narrated by JJ Creenan. New episodes every week. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to keep the stories flowing and the streets speaking.