I am a massive fan of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 most Thursdays at 9am. There are various ways you can search it, but as a service to our readers, here is a list of the London-related ones.
Aphra Behn
Annie Besant
Athelstan
Thomas Becket
Bedlam
The Black Death
The Bluestockings
The Book of Common Prayer
Boudica
Robert Boyle
Brunel
Fanny Burney
Caxton and the Printing Press
Chaucer
Mrs Dalloway
The Death of Elizabeth I
Dickens
The Domesday Book
The East India Company
Englishness
The Enlightenment in Britain
Michael Faraday
The [Great] Fire of London
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
The Gin Craze
The Great Exhibition of 1851
William Hazlitt
Octavia Hill
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Robert Hooke
Titus Oates and His ‘Popish Plot’
The Peasants’ Revolt
Pocahontas
[Alexander] Pope
The Putney Debates
The Restoration
The Royal Society
The Scriblerus Club
Seventeenth Century Print Culture
The South Sea Bubble
Suffragism
The Trial of Charles I
The Tudor State
Mike Paterson