This week we're on the fringes of Soho to meet Andreas Kambanis of one of the capital's best cycling blogs, londoncyclist.co.uk. N Quentin Woolf puts his own personal problems with cycling to Andreas. Can he convince him to change he mind?

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N Quentin Woolf goes into the vaults with Stuart Black and Ioanna Karavela to talk about what will be big in London film this year.

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This week, we look back at some of the highlights from the last 12 months of Londonist Out Loud. We travel across the city and through time, with Matthew Beaumont, Anna Spender, Caroline Shenton, Yannick Pucci and Claire Sexton. If you missed any of these episodes, make sure to check the archive, where you'll find a London treasure trove. Photo by EZTD from Flickr.

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Soho is synonymous with the creative industries, and every year it's home to the Soho Create festival, which brings together people from a host of disciplines to talk and share experiences. In this episode we meet festival CEO Tom Harvey, who tells us more about the endeavour.

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The East End has long been a hotbed of rebellion and social change. In this podcast, N Quentin Woolf meets David Rosenberg, author of Rebel Footprints a guide to the history of protest and struggle in this part of London.

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Who introduced the Christmas tree to London? Tina Baxter and Miss Kitty take us on a tour of parts of the City to tell us about Georgian London -- and Christmas in particular, where we hear their theory on how the tree came to be part of celebrations.

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Should Twitter trolls be prosecuted for their horrible views? Should people who tell racist jokes receive threats of violence? These are some of the tricky issues being tackled by London organisation, English Pen, which defends the people's freedom of expression.

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Of all London's children Samuel Pepys must be one of the best-known and loved. His diaries recorded the city at a time of incredible change -- not least the most devastating fire in its history. This week we are given a tour of the National Maritime Museum's blockbuster exhibition dedicated to the great man, by curators Robert Blyth and Kris Martin. Image (c) National Portrait Gallery.

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This week's guest is Dr Christine Corton, Lady Evans, talking about London fogs past and present.

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Victoria Northridge and Paul Reid from the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton talk about black Londoners, particularly from the Georgian era.

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