Publicity - Your London Travel Toolkit
London trip planning meets storytelling. A podcast to listen to before you pack your bag. An audio-guided London exploration experience.
Explore London through immersive walking stories, historic pubs, hidden streets, food culture, and self-guided adventures.
Planning a London trip has never been easier, or more overwhelming. We have access to infinite information, yet zero clarity. Every blog, listicle, algorithm-driven 'Top Ten' pulls us in a different direction, burying the things that actually matter under an avalanche of noise.
The hidden gem, the neighborhood that makes no sense until someone explains it, the pub that unlocks three hundred years of history through silent observation of the neighborhood, none of that surfaces in an online search.
Publicity is your signal in the static. Your London Travel Toolkit, built by a Brit, to help you curate the trip you actually want to take.
On this London travel podcast we explore neighborhoods through everyday spaces, including pubs – revealing rhythms, stories, and hidden histories. Favoring observation over itinerary, we give you the tools to make best use of your travel time, and not return home having missed out.
Nothing substitutes for a local, skilled, personality driven tour guide to help you navigate the streets in real life. However, by listening to this podcast before your walking tour, you'll be ready to focus your walking tour guide on the questions you need answering.
Publicity - Your London Travel Toolkit. A signal in the travel information static.
Episodes
22 episodes
Historic London Hidden Riverside Pub - The London Apprentice
Planning a London trip and looking for hidden London pubs beyond the usual tourist crowds? Our podcast shorts series is perfect for quick travel research tasks and a great way of supporting London pubs.In this episode of Publicity – Your...
King’s Cross London Pub Walk – History & Hidden Gems
King's Cross sounds like it should have an ancient, heroic origin story, but the name comes from a mocked 1830 monument demolished fifteen years after it was built. This episode traces the incredible arc of one of London's great tra...
Ye Olde Mitre Holborn – London’s Hidden Historic Pub
This bonus episode is our love letter to Ye Olde Mitre, one of London's most hidden and historically rich pubs. When we visited recently, the bar staff gave us one of the most friendly welcomes we've experienced in a busy city center pub. So, t...
The Lord Raglan, Holborn - A Hidden London Pub With A Secret
The Lord Raglan pub recently proudly announced the launch of their new food menu.To congratulate the pub on this great news, we decided to gift them with a special, short, bonus episode featuring the history of their pub - The Lord Ragla...
Ep 12 Trailer - King's Cross/St Pancras, Look Ahead to Season 2
A preview of Episode 12 – King’s Cross, Up Down Up Again. The episode traces the neighborhood's arc from quiet rural crossroads to Victorian industrial powerhouse. We move through post-war decline and the grim decades of the 70s–90s...
Bermondsey Beer Mile - London's best craft beer walking tour
Before craft beer, before the taprooms, before the Saturday crowds with their route maps, Bermondsey smelled of rotting hides, urine, and dog filth. In short, industry! Episode 11 of Publicity - Your London Travel Toolkit &...
London Pie and Mash – History, Best Shops & Where to Try It
Step into the bustling streets of old East London, where the air is thick with history and the scent of freshly baked pies, and discover the story behind one of the city’s most iconic comfort foods, now part of Britain's "Heritage Foods Movemen...
Charlie Chaplin’s London – Historic Pub & Music Hall Walking Tour
Join Publicity – The Guidebook Gap in our two-mile walking tour of Charlie Chaplin’s London neighborhood. Our walk maps how institutional poverty and family chaos produced the raw material of Chaplin’s art.We’ll visit pubs, music hall si...
Ep 11 Trailer - Bermondsey Beer Mile - Going The Extra Mile
In 1850, a Victorian journalist walked into Bermondsey and wanted to head back for the door. His senses assaulted by raw hides, tanning pits, human urine, pigeon and dog feces, slaked lime, and ground oak bark. The unmistakable frag...
Ep 10 Trailer Charlie Chaplin’s London, Poverty, Pubs & Music Halls
A late 19th century South London childhood shaped by poverty, illness, and instability. These are the tough beginnings of a generational creative talent that would emerge into global stardom, and exile. On these South London streets...
London Street Food Guide - Markets, History, Where To Eat
It's all about London's great street food in this episode. We start with a famous Earl who named the humble sandwich. John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, is remembered not for his long career at the Admiralty, nor for giving Hawaii its first...
Ep 9 Trailer Bite Me - The Upper Crust & Underbelly of London Street Food
Bite Me – The Upper Crust & Underbelly of London Street FoodApril 1779. A man waits outside a London theatre with two loaded pistols. A lady he’s enamored with is about to leave the building. The problem is she’s the mistress ...
Marylebone London Walking Guide – Hidden Pubs & Dark History
We're off to Marylebone - using the neighborhood's dark origins as a launch pad for a story of spectacular reinvention. Our walk begins at Marble Arch, where a barely-noticed pavement plaque marks the site of Tyburn Tree - London's ...
Ep 8 Trailer Body Snatchers & Marylebone Pubs
Trailer for Episode 8 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Marylebone StyleThis is Marylebone. Its story - told through its pubs - is one of execution and resurrection, bodysnatching and high society, muddy fields and marble halls.
Covent Garden London - History, Pubs, and What Tourists Miss
In this episode, we rip the polished Instagram filter off Covent Garden and ask a far more interesting question than “Where’s the Apple Store?”We ask what scene this place is playing. Beneath the street performers and opera c...
City of London History – Ancient Pubs, Walking Guide, M&S
What if the secret to understanding a London neighborhood and its pubs… were the grocery stores?In this episode of Publicity – The Guidebook Gap, Expat Andy takes us to the City of London - where historic pubs and modern finance...
London Riverside Pubs – London’s Lost Rivers, Part 2
Brutalist estates, haunted pubs, Roman temples, and a river you've never seen—Part 2 of our world exclusive Walbrook walk dives deep into the hidden heart of London. Join Expat Andy as he traces the true, long-lost path of the Walbr...
London Riverside Pubs – London’s Lost Rivers, Part 1
Beneath London’s bustling streets flows a river you’ve never seen—and until now, we’ve all been walking it wrong. In this world exclusive, Publicity uncovers the true path of the lost Walbrook River, hidden for over 600 years. Join ...
Notting Hill London - Historic Pubs That Built Notting Hill
A guided walk through 275 years of urban failure, reinvention, and the long, slow gentrification of Notting Hill - told through the pubs that developers built first (usually before they went bankrupt). From gravel pits and pig farms...
London Pub Guide - A Map Determined By Geology
Why did Bermondsey’s working-class pubs serve up pints to tanners reeking of dog poo. While Hampstead boasts literary haunts filled with poetry and spa visitors? It’s not luck. It’s topography - for the answer is buried deep. From g...
Chelsea London Walking Tour – History and Best Pubs
Welcome to Publicity - London By Pub - the travel podcast that helps you actually experience London, not just tick off landmarks.In this debut episode, we crack open Chelsea - London’s posh-meets-punk neighborhood -where ...
Publicity -The Guidebook Gap Trailer
Ever traveled only to realize you walked past everything that mattered? Hosted by British expat Andy from Miami alongside an American traveler and a London local, Publicity explores London's neighborhoods through their historic pubs - not as dr...
