Subterraneans Podcast
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA podcast about the underground history of London. Hidden places and forgotten stories beneath the City.
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Episodes
S07E05: Q-Whitehall
January 09, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 43 MBExploring 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
S07E04: Citronella
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 46.5 MBIn the depths of the internet lies an exact copy of you. Waiting. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S07E03: Brand New Swampland
December 12, 2023 00:01 - 27 minutes - 40.3 MBThe mischievous spirits of the Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve and planning for the swamp. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S07E02: Holy Antennae
November 28, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBPirate radio and divine broadcasts. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S07E01: Seven Dials
November 14, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 33.7 MBWe don't dance around the dials any more. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
SEASON 7 BEGINS 14.11.23
November 05, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.33 MBhttps://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S06E05: Politeness
April 11, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 29.4 MBThe season finale of Subterraneans Season 6. Learning to get rude, and a strange new job. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S06E04: The Phantom Platforms
March 28, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 42.8 MBA music box at St Pauls tube station and a song that lasts forever: exploring the Phantom Platforms that exist in the gap between waveforms.
S06E03: The Skeleton Army
March 14, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 38.6 MBQueer misery and the search for the magic words. www.patreon.com/subterpod
S06E02: The Thirteenth Man
February 28, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 53.5 MBPick-up artists and mycelium beneath a row of terraces in Feltham. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S06E01: The Aberfeldy Ghost
February 14, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 48.4 MBEchoes and whispers in a Poplar housing estate. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S05E05: The Carrot
September 06, 2022 00:00 - 18 minutes - 29.8 MBIn 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
S05E04: Doves Type
August 23, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutes - 37.2 MBThe 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 river? www.patreon.com/subterpod
S05E03: Not Deer
August 09, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutes - 28.3 MBWhy have mysterious creatures from Appalachian folklore begun appearing in the roads near Richmond Park? www.patreon.com/subterpod
S05E02: Mole Men
July 26, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes - 34.8 MBThe Mole Man of Hackney, and a discovery beneath Finsbury Park. www.patreon.com/subterpod
S05E01: The Stick
July 12, 2022 00:00 - 22 minutes - 36.4 MBHypnosis, murder, and the music industry. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S4E5: Ephemera
August 13, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes - 31.7 MBEphemera: 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
S4E4: Cutting the Line, Part 2
July 30, 2021 00:00 - 21 minutes - 33 MBMansel Wheeler strikes back against the Returners. Part two of the Mass Rock Heist. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S4E3: Cutting the Line, Part 1
July 16, 2021 00:00 - 23 minutes - 37.4 MBPart 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
S4E2: Luddites and the River Lea
July 02, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes - 54.3 MBFortunes in flux along the East End's industrial riverfront. https://www.patreon.com/subterpod
S4E1: Classified Material
June 18, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutes - 56.9 MBThis is a love story. http://patreon.com/subterpod
Season 4: Episode 0
June 07, 2021 05:00 - 43 seconds - 1.12 MBSubterraneans Season 4 will begin on Friday 18 June 2021. http://patreon.com/subterpod
S3E5: The Estuary
January 09, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 42.4 MBSearching 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
S3E4: Panic Rooms & Priest Holes
December 12, 2020 00:01 - 28 minutes - 41.7 MBWren'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
S3E3: Underground Shopping
November 28, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutes - 49.1 MBRaves 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
S3E2: Little Compton Street
November 14, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes - 31.3 MBA 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
S3E1: Gasometers
October 31, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 42.4 MBSubterraneans 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
S2E5: Reinterment in Clerkenwell and Camden
April 17, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 36.7 MBClerkenwell 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
S2E4: Nuclear Apocalypse
April 03, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 38 MBNuclear 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
S2E3: The New Cross Tube Experiment
March 20, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 44.1 MBThe natural world, tube lines, and giant sloths. Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/subterpod Follow my twitter: twitter.com/Subterpod
S2E2: Blackfriars
March 06, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 34.5 MBI 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
S2E1: Burial
February 21, 2020 00:00 - 20 minutes - 32.1 MBSeason 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
Episode 5: Return to Aldgate
October 03, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 44.6 MBIn 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 for more information as it's ready. https://twitter.com/subterpod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265
Episode 4: Billionaires' Row
September 14, 2019 00:00 - 29 minutes - 50.6 MBIn 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 beneath London's quiet residential streets. Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265 Or follow the show on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Subterpod
Episode 3: Going to Aldwych
August 30, 2019 00:00 - 21 minutes - 37 MBIn 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. All my feeds can be found at https://twitter.com/Subterpod
Episode 2: The Amphitheatre
August 15, 2019 18:16 - 22 minutes - 38.1 MBIn 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
Subterraneans Episode 1: The Aldgate Tunnel
August 10, 2019 00:00 - 20 minutes - 35.3 MBEpisode 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 Thompson. Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265 Follow the podcast on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/subterpod