London Undone

Episode 42: City of London Churches - St Margaret Lothbury

June 14, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 42. St Margaret Lothbury’s name is curious… and so are its features. It contains a hoard of ecclesiastical items taken from other (now gone) City of London Churches including an unusual candy-cane wooden screen, a giant tester board, some impressive mem...

Episode 41: City of London Churches - St Bartholomew the Great

June 06, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 17 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 41. All that remains of St Bartholomew the Great is still indeed great. Some of the spectacular features of this 900 year old half-church are its Norman architecture, its delightful memorial to the Whitings family, a golden Damien Hirst sculpture of St ...

Episode 40: City of London Churches - St Mary Abchurch

May 24, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 40. St Mary Abchurch demonstrates yet another of Christopher Wren's methods of creating a large domed roof. It also contains superb wood carving by Grinling Gibbons. Hear about the many details contained within its unassuming brick walls as a few myths ...

Episode 39: City of London Churches - St Mary-le-Bow

March 13, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 39. Hear Rector George Bush explain once and for all that the bells of St Mary-le-Bow were indeed the Bow bells! More than this, this church has the most extraordinary stained glass windows, has a 9ft dragon as a weather vane, and has always been connec...

Episode 38: City of London Churches - St Andrew Holborn

February 12, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 38. Oddly Christopher Wren's largest parish church (now a guild church) is well hidden below Holborn Circus. But don't miss out on St Andrew Holborn which has recently been refurbished and brought back to its former splendour. Connected to the church ar...

Episode 37: City of London Churches - St Bride's

December 13, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 37. This is the only church in the East of England dedicated to St Bridget and there is much to learn about it… layers and layers of London’s history… of stones… of unusual treasures… of people: From the Roman pavements in the depths of the crypt to the...

Episode 36: City of London Churches - St Botolph without Bishopsgate

November 02, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 36. Woof! The only church in the city of London to deliver an animal blessing service. Hear from the pets and their owners about this annual event. Also hear from Rector Fr. David Armstrong about the rebellious nature of this liberal church, its tennis ...

Episode 35: City of London Churches - St Mary Moorfields

September 30, 2022 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 35. This is the only Roman Catholic church in the square mile and it's easily mistaken for a shop! But do take a walk through its oft open doors for some peace and tranquility and tune in to this podcast where Fr Chris Vipers shares its history, feature...

Episode 34: City of London Churches - St Olave Hart Street

August 19, 2022 14:17 - 13 minutes - 8.75 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 34. St Olave Hart Street has been described by John Betjeman, once poet laureate, as a ‘country church’ but was also described by Charles Dickens in one of his essays a century earlier as ‘the church of ghastly grim’. It was also the local church for th...

Episode 33: City of London Churches - St Mary-at-Hill

July 27, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes - 9.56 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 33. St Mary-at-Hill – home of the Fish Harvest Festival. Tucked in between two atmospheric, cobbled alleys up from old Billingsgate market is another church with peculiar and diverse associations including trombone playing vicars and plague pits. Hear h...

Episode 32: City of London Churches - City Temple

November 27, 2021 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MB

The London Undone 'City of London Churches' podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and may churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 32. City Temple: In the City but not "of the city". This is a a non-conformist church with a polycultural congregation and behind the Victorian facade is a post-war building full of surprises. Want to know more? With thanks to Rev Rodney Woods for sharin...

Episode 31: City of London Churches - St Stephen Wallbrook

September 24, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 31. This is said to be the most perfectly proportioned building in the world. It is also where Samaritans began its life and where you can sing to your hearts content every week. Step inside and hear about this and more from Fiona Lukas and Tony Tucker...

Episode 30: City of London Churches - St Katharine Cree

September 15, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 30. St Katharine Cree was built to keep the riff raff out of the nearby Priory. It pre-dates the Great Fire of London. Every year a sermon is preached from here entitled 'In the Lion's Den'. And most movingly, it is the church where people who have a co...

City of London Churches - Salvation Army IHQ Chapel

November 12, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 29. You may challenge my inclusion of this private, floating, chapel in the City of London Churches series… but I think its story is worth hearing. And it is, after all, within the boundaries of the City, hiding in plain sight. Listen to Commissioner Da...

575 Wandsworth Road

October 27, 2020 10:15 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

Behind a very plain door of an ordinary terraced house on a main road in South West London you’ll find the incredible craftsmanship, vision and atmosphere as created by the Kenyan civil servant Mr Asalache. Pass through the door to hear more… or just listen to this. Thanks to the National Trust and Rachel Pearson.

City of London Churches - St Giles Cripplegate

September 01, 2019 00:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 28. In the middle of the brutalist Barbican stands the medieval church of St Giles Cripplegate with some prominent and some touchingly simple memorials to many famous men, and one intriguing woman. With thanks to Tony Tucker from the Friends of the City...

City of London Churches - St Clement Eastcheap

August 22, 2019 00:00 - 8 minutes - 5.95 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 27. The smallest and least obvious of all City of London churches, St Clement Eastcheap is the church that features in the nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’. Today it’s an office! Thanks to Tony Tucker from the Friends of the City Churches.

City of London Churches - St Nicholas Cole Abbey

August 05, 2019 00:00 - 14 minutes - 9.7 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 26. Fish, coffee and smudgy windows all appear in this beautifully restored Christopher Wren church which is also very well attended by the young city workforce.

City of London Churches - All Hallows London Wall

July 28, 2019 00:00 - 8 minutes - 6.1 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 25. No other City of London church is as surprising as this one. Its bleak and foreboding exterior betrays its crisp classical and bright interior. Thanks to Friends of City Churches, and author Tony Tucker

City of London Churches - St Sepulchre without Newgate

July 20, 2019 22:51 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 24. This church will delight you with its fabulous combination of music and death! And who was St Sepulchre? Thanks to Jill Finch, Alexandra Epps and the Halcyon Quartet www.halcyon-quartet.com

City of London Churches - St Mary Aldermary

July 11, 2019 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 23. St Mary Aldermary is one of the few 17th century gothic churches you'll find in the City of London. At lunch you'll hear the hum of local workers enjoying their break but at the start and end of the day the relaxed breath of a meditation group. Thanks...

City of London Churches - St Vedast alias Foster

July 05, 2019 00:00 - 20 minutes - 13.7 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 22. St Vedast Alias Foster has a secret garden containing an ancient Syrian rock familiar to Agatha Christie, a Roman pavement and a memorial to a Russian soldier who is described thus: “This was a man”. With thanks to Jill Finch and Tony Tucker from Fri...

City of London Churches - St James Garlickhythe

June 23, 2019 00:00 - 14 minutes - 9.89 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 21. Start your pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela here, but before you leave don’t forget to listen to the church’s famous bells and look for the mummified corpse hiding in the tower. With thanks to Bell Ringer Dickon Love, Church Watcher Susan Konowich...

City of London Churches - St Lawrence Jewry

June 15, 2019 00:00 - 30 seconds - 18.1 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 20. Prominently placed on Guildhall Yard, this grand church has strong links with the City of London Corporation and the livery companies. Step inside for ceremonies, symbols and sensational stained glass windows. Thanks to Alexandra Epps from Art in the ...

City of London Churches - St Botolph without Aldgate

June 03, 2019 00:00 - 23 minutes - 12.7 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 19. Just outside the eastern gate of the City of London, the welcoming church of St Botolph without Aldgate hides London's oldest organ. Hear it played and enjoy its Georgian surroundings. Thanks to Church watcher Becky Banfield, Rev Laura Jørgensen and ...

City of London Churches - St Michael Cornhill

May 28, 2019 00:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 18. St Michael Cornhill looks like like all the other 18th century City churches on the outside, but walk inside to find a church full of Victorian gothic details. Thanks to City Guides Alexandra Epps, Jill Finch and Church Watcher Steve Welsh.

City of London Churches - St Martin within Ludgate

May 18, 2019 15:15 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 17. By some miracle, St Martin's is one of the most original of Christopher Wren's churches in the City of London and is used today for traditional Anglican services as well as for Chinese gospel singing worshippers. Tune in to hear more about it's bread ...

City of London Churches - St Peter upon Cornhill

May 18, 2019 00:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 13. The church of St Peter upon Cornhill is hidden in plain sight and it's also one of a few Christopher Wren churches to be left unscarred by the Blitz. Step inside and hear more about its history as well as the mandarin speaking congregants who worship ...

City of London Churches - The Dutch Church at Austin Friars

May 14, 2019 00:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 15. The Dutch Church is one of the most hidden of the City churches and one of the newest... but its history stretches back to the 16th century and its internal features are extraordinary. With thanks to the warm congregation and mister Bertjan van de Lag...

City of London Churches - St Mary Aldermanbury

May 14, 2019 00:00 - 14 minutes - 9.61 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 16. You have to travel to another continent to find St Mary Aldermanbury, but here you'll find wildlife, horses, birds, swamp cypress trees and a memorial to those who brought us William Shakespeare.

City of London Churches - St Ethelburga the virgin within Bishopsgate

April 25, 2019 00:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 14. This tiny medieval church survived the Great Fire and the Blitz but in the 1990s it was very badly damaged by an IRA bomb. Step inside for some peace and reconciliation.

City of London Churches - St Anne and St Agnes

April 01, 2019 00:00 - 13 minutes - 9.4 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 12. Hidden behind bushes and trees, the red bricks of St Anne & St Agnes can only be glimpsed, but push your way through and you’ll be rewarded by architectural beauty and musical delights. Thanks to Jan Kerilis and Harry Bennet from the VCM charity https...

City of London Churches - St Botolph without Aldersgate

March 24, 2019 00:00 - 14 minutes - 9.72 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 11. One of three remaining churches dedicated to St Botolph in the City of London, this one may seem plain on the outside but it is full of Georgian surprises inside! Tune in to hear the Scottish style acapella singing by the Presbyterians who use the ch...

City of London Churches - St Andrew by the Wardrobe

March 17, 2019 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 10. Q: What do a Scottish saint, Shakespeare, the Indian Orthodox Church and a King's wardrobe all have in common? A: St Andrew by the Wardrobe. This is another Christopher Wren church. Approached from the north it is hard to find through alleyways but fr...

City of London Churches - St Edmund King and Martyr

March 10, 2019 23:10 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 9. Don't overlook this small City of London church with some unusual features, old and new. It's also the home of that rare ecumenical community. With thanks to Julie Dunstan from the London Centre for Spiritual Direction and Tony Tucker from the Friend...

City of London Churches - St Benet Paul's Wharf

March 01, 2019 19:52 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 8. This small cosy church is full of quirky features and unusual associations. Tune in to hear about Shakespeare, graffiti, celebrity weddings, heralds and women playwrights. On top of that, a warm welcome and rousing music awaits you in this Welsh Chur...

City of London Churches - St Michael Paternoster Royal

February 22, 2019 00:28 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 7. The movement and colours of the magnificent modern windows of this Christopher Wren church are a sight for sore eyes as the scenes they depict slowly emerge the more you look at them. Look closely at another window and you'll see the story of local m...

City of London Churches - Christchurch Greyfriars

February 15, 2019 00:00 - 11 minutes - 7.61 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 6. Alongside a busy City road stands a ruined Christopher Wren church with plants growing inside it. Listen and you’ll find that this is a church with a new and different mission. With thanks to Marion Blair from Friends of City Gardens and Tony Tucker ...

City of London Churches - St Margaret Pattens

February 10, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 9.66 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 5. Another Christopher Wren church, St Margaret Pattens today is dwarfed by the tall buildings around it. Nevertheless its tall lead spire still pricks the City skyline and retains its elegance. Hear about its association with the death of Charles I, K...

City of London Churches - St Magnus the Martyr Bells

February 02, 2019 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB

The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 4. The tower of St Magnus the Martyr contains 12 bells cast in the now defunct Whitechapel Bell Foundry. In this episode, the unusually named Ancient Society of College Youths tell us about the churches wobbling tower and the skills needed to ring them...

City of London Churches - St Mary Woolnoth

January 15, 2019 00:00 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MB

The London Undone 'City of London Churches' podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 2. This week we head to St Mary Woolnoth: austere on the outside, cosy on the inside. This is the only church in the City of London that is the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor. With thanks to Melina Herman from the Cosy Coffee Corner and Tony Tucker from Fri...

City of London Churches - An Introduction

January 12, 2019 00:00 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MB

Before we get properly started with this series, here is an episode to give you some context. In this podcast you'll hear about the general history of the City of London churches and some useful background information on this subject which will help you appreciate and understand them a bit more.

City of London Churches - All Hallows by the Tower

January 07, 2019 13:25 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MB

The London Undone 'City of London Churches' podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 1. This episode tells the story of All Hallows by the Tower. Is this the oldest church in the City of London? Hear about its many American connections and its strange ceremonies. With thanks to Adey Grummet at All Hallows by the Tower.

Croydon Airport

December 31, 2018 00:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB

Fly back in time to Croydon Airport and the early days of air travel. Find out how those magnificent (wo)men in their flying machines truly did change our lives. Hear about the experience of early flight from the people that are keeping the site alive.

Westminster Abbey - Diamond Jubilee Galleries

December 18, 2018 00:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MB

To find out about the extraordinary treasures contained within the new museum at Westminster Abbey, listen here. You may be surprised to learn that the museum is located in a part of the church that hasn't been open to the public before. The space is as impressive as its contents which include the Liber Regalis and funeral effigies of many Kings and Queens buried inside. To get to the Diamond Jubilee Galleries you have to climb a brand new tower in The Royal Church and when you ge...

Clapham South Deep Shelter

August 23, 2018 00:00 - 11 minutes - 7.43 MB

A shelter was built underneath Clapham South tube station during the Second World War to protect civilians from aerial bombardment. What was life like deep underground and what happened to the deep level tunnel after the war?

Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge

August 23, 2018 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.1 MB

When we think about the Royal Air Force we think about aeroplanes in the skies… think again! Deep underground the plotters and controllers of the Royal Air Force managed air operations during the Second World War. Let’s go down and meet WAAF plotter Helen who worked here during the war.

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