Come with me as we brave the crowds and the confusion to visit the neighbourhood Shakespeare would have known. There's so much to see that we will need at least two episodes!

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Meet Patrick Colquhoun, slave-trader, wartime profiteer, founder of the Thames River Police. As much as anyone, he created modern London.

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This episode considers London's changing relationship with the rivers flowing through it, paying particular attention to the attempt to make the Fleet River respectable after the Great Fire.

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In this episode, we meet another pillar—the magnificent Maori carving rising through the centre of New Zealand House. In a bit of Westminster thick with sculpture, this one puts all the others to shame.

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We take a walk through the history of Brick Lane, and eventually witness -- and celebrate -- the construction of Banglatown’s jewel, the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid’s minaret.

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In this episode we meet Anna Hassall, in many ways a typical female entrepreneur of early 18c Jamaica. But Anna, unlike her business partners competitors, ended up in Westminster Abbey. Why?

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Meet Elizabeth Montagu, doyenne of the Feather Room and hostess of the Chimneysweeps' Feast, who gently feminized London society for half a century.

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Why would one of the most famous, successful, influential women of Victorian Britain, one of the greatest and most effective champions of progressive causes, spend twenty years campaigning to deny herself political power? I wish I knew . . .

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Two young men on the make decide that Christmas is a marketing opportunity disguised as a holiday. In London during the third week of September 1843, modern consumerism comes of age.

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In this episode, we head back to the 60's when Thames geese competed with Eric Clapton's guitar riffs and the wail of Rod Stewart's harmonica, and the hush of Richmond's middle-class respectability was delightfully disturbed by the birth of British rhythm and blues.

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