Subterraneans Podcast

Subterraneans Podcast episodes:

• 01.09.2024

  S07E05: Q-Whitehall

  Exploring Q-Whitehall, the network of tunnels beneath the heart of the government, and the strange installations in the bloodstream of the city. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 12.26.2023

  S07E04: Citronella

  In the depths of the internet lies an exact copy of you. Waiting. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 12.12.2023

  S07E03: Brand New Swampland

  The mischievous spirits of the Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve and planning for the swamp. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 11.28.2023

  S07E02: Holy Antennae

  Pirate radio and divine broadcasts. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 11.14.2023

  S07E01: Seven Dials

  We don't dance around the dials any more. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 11.05.2023

  SEASON 7 BEGINS 14.11.23

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• 04.11.2023

  S06E05: Politeness

  The season finale of Subterraneans Season 6. Learning to get rude, and a strange new job. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 03.28.2023

  S06E04: The Phantom Platforms

  A music box at St Pauls tube station and a song that lasts forever: exploring the Phantom Platforms that exist in the gap between waveforms.

  
• 03.14.2023

  S06E03: The Skeleton Army

  Queer misery and the search for the magic words. www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 02.28.2023

  S06E02: The Thirteenth Man

  Pick-up artists and mycelium beneath a row of terraces in Feltham. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 02.14.2023

  S06E01: The Aberfeldy Ghost

  Echoes and whispers in a Poplar housing estate. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 09.06.2022

  S05E05: The Carrot

  In the season finale of Subterraneans, I listen to the tapes that Flick sent me. We listen to the tapes that Flick sent me. You listen to the tapes that Flick sent me. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 08.23.2022

  S05E04: Doves Type

  The Doves Press and its unique typeface printed what have been described by design historians as “some of the finest books ever produced in England”. Why, then, did it end up spending a hundred years at the bottom of the...

  
• 08.09.2022

  S05E03: Not Deer

  Why have mysterious creatures from Appalachian folklore begun appearing in the roads near Richmond Park? www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 07.26.2022

  S05E02: Mole Men

  The Mole Man of Hackney, and a discovery beneath Finsbury Park. www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 07.12.2022

  S05E01: The Stick

  Hypnosis, murder, and the music industry. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 07.06.2022

  SUBTERRANEANS SEASON 5

  PREMIERES 12 JULY 2022

  
• 08.13.2021

  S4E5: Ephemera

  Ephemera: Four stories from the edge. Rat boat, walking into traffic, creatures of the tube, and a painting from another dimension. The finale of Subterraneans Season 4. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 07.30.2021

  S4E4: Cutting the Line, Part 2

  Mansel Wheeler strikes back against the Returners. Part two of the Mass Rock Heist. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 07.16.2021

  S4E3: Cutting the Line, Part 1

  Part one of a two-part series on Mansel Wheeler, the Returners, and a heist which split the city in two. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 07.02.2021

  S4E2: Luddites and the River Lea

  Fortunes in flux along the East End's industrial riverfront. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 06.18.2021

  S4E1: Classified Material

  This is a love story. http://patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 06.07.2021

  Season 4: Episode 0

  Subterraneans Season 4 will begin on Friday 18 June 2021. http://patreon.com/subterpod

  
• 01.09.2021

  S3E5: The Estuary

  Searching for Parthenope in the cold mud of the estuary. Sewers, sirens, wading birds, and bovril boats, in the season finale of Subterraneans. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: www.twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 12.12.2020

  S3E4: Panic Rooms & Priest Holes

  Wren's churches, Chaucer's clergy, and the sanctuary within the sanctuary; I take a look at the secret codes in the City's churchyards. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: www.twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 11.28.2020

  S3E3: Underground Shopping

  Raves at the end of history in the failed shopping malls of late capitalism. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: www.twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 11.14.2020

  S3E2: Little Compton Street

  A mysterious grate in the centre of Charing Cross Road, and the troubled organics of a restless city. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 10.31.2020

  S3E1: Gasometers

  Subterraneans Season 3 kicks off with a tribute to the suburbs, and the Victorian gasometers, of the ex-industrial estuary. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 04.17.2020

  S2E5: Reinterment in Clerkenwell and Camden

  Clerkenwell Prison, the Camden Catacombs, and the drowned. The season finale of Subterraneans Season 2. The show will now be on hiatus as I regroup and prepare for the next step. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 04.03.2020

  S2E4: Nuclear Apocalypse

  Nuclear war, plague, and learning to fly at the end of the world. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 03.20.2020

  S2E3: The New Cross Tube Experiment

  The natural world, tube lines, and giant sloths. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 03.06.2020

  S2E2: Blackfriars

  I visit Blackfriars Bridge, conspiracy theories, numbers stations, and the search for truth. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 02.21.2020

  S2E1: Burial

  Season two of Subterraneans picks up where we left off, exploring the hidden city and its secret hinterlands beneath the earth. Stories of burial, exhumation, reburial, drowning, and surviving beneath the cold earth. Subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Subterpod

  
• 01.24.2020

  Broadcast

  A broadcast from somewhere...

  
• 10.03.2019

  Episode 5: Return to Aldgate

  In the season finale of Subterraneans, I return to the Aldgate Cavern to try to connect it to the rest of the City. Subterraneans will now be on hiatus until season 2 is ready. Follow on Twitter or subscribe on iTunes...

  
• 09.14.2019

  Episode 4: Billionaires' Row

  In the wealthy suburbs of Kensington and Hampstead, billionaires are building super-basements to artificially extend their properties an extra five of six storeys below the ground... but that's not all they're doing. In this episode, I explore money and power...

  
• 08.30.2019

  Episode 3: Going to Aldwych

  In episode 3 of Subterraneans, I discuss the building of the tube, the kind spirits who walk with us through the darkness, and the ghost stations and hidden vaults which lie beneath London. Subterraneans is written and produced by James Thompson....

  
• 08.15.2019

  Episode 2: The Amphitheatre

  In Episode 2, we explore the Amphitheatre which lies beneath Guildhall Yard, and the founding of the Roman city. All music and words by James Thompson. Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265 Follow the podcast on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/subterpod

  
• 08.10.2019

  Subterraneans Episode 1: The Aldgate Tunnel

  Episode 1 of a new podcast about the hidden underground stories which lie beneath London. I tell the story of the Aldgate Tunnel, the men who built it, and what they found beneath the City. All music and words by James...