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
The Great Stink – How London Finally Got Its S**t Together
As London swelters through record-breaking June temperatures in 2026, we look back to another scorching June that changed the city forever. In 1858, soaring temperatures turned the Thames into a foul-smelling open sewer, creating the Great Stin...
Wimbledon - More Than Tennis
The Fox & Grapes - A London Country Pub by Wimbledon Common. “One of the few pubs in London that's best reached by horse,” and, “About as rural as you can get in Zone 3.” [Londonist]London pubs are more th...
Day Trips From London – Cardiff’s Victorian Splendor
Planning a trip to London and looking for an easy day trip from London by train? Skip another packed day in the UK capital, and head two hours west to Cardiff, the grand coal-built capital of Wales. A whole other country, with its own language,...
Hidden London - Stunning Victorian Backstreet Boozer
Planning a trip to London and looking to go beyond the usual tourist checklist? In this Summer Shorts episode of Love Letter to London Pubs, Expat Andy takes you to Stockwell, a South London neighborhood that offers a fascinating glimp...
Bow – Experience London on a Human Scale
Tired of London crowds? Build a day off into your trip. London Travel Expert, Expat Andy shares the perfect escape from the tourist treadmill. A slow, self-guided day in Bow in the East End of London. Just a few Tube stops from central London b...
Summer Shorts Series Trailer - London Pubs & Day Trips Ideas
Planning a trip to London? Publicity – Your London Travel Toolkit helps travelers build a London itinerary that hits the highlights without burning out.All summer, two short series alternate weekly. Love Letter to London Pubs takes you i...
Old Isleworth – London's Hidden Thames Village Escape
Discover Old Isleworth, London's hidden Thames village, home to the 500-year-old London Apprentice pub, Lady Jane Grey, Syon House, Henry VIII, riverside walks, and one of London's most peaceful day trips. Planning a London trip and...
King's Cross: From Run-Down to London's Hottest Neighborhood
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...
London's Hardest Pub to Find - Where Elizabeth I Danced
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 - London's Roman Wall Pub
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...
Beyond Borough Market - Bermondsey Beer Mile
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 &...
Pie & Mash Explained – London's Strangest Great Meal
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...
How London Created Charlie Chaplin
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...
Eat Your Way Through History – London's Best Street Foods
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...
Marylebone - Posh Streets & Dark Secrets
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 ...
Covent Garden Explained – Hidden Stories, Pubs & History
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...
Why The City of London Pubs Feel Different
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's Lost River Rediscovered - 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's Lost River Rediscovered - 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 – The Boom and Bust Behind a London Icon
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...
Decode London - Why Every Neighborhood Feels Different
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...
