Episodes

  • Christmas from the Devereux

    Christmas from the Devereux
    Dec 25 2025
    A Merry Christmas to all our listeners. In this fun festive episode, coming to you from the convivial Devereux pub in Middle Temple, the ever popular Mark Mason and Patrick Kidd regale Tam and Geoff with jolly tales of Christmas past and present....

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    48 mins
  • The Freemasons Arms with Maureen Lipman

    The Freemasons Arms with Maureen Lipman
    Dec 11 2025
    In this very special episode Tam and Geoff ride out to the balmy heights of Hampstead to meet the wonderful theatrical dame Maureen Lipman who regales them with delightfully amusing stories about her long and glittering life in London as an actress, wife and mother.

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    49 mins
  • The Champion with Patrick Kidd

    The Champion with Patrick Kidd
    Nov 27 2025
    Join us at the Champion pub in Fitzrovia for an entertaining chat with writer, journalist, diarist, raconteur and all round sportsman Patrick Kidd as we discuss cricket, W.G Grace, Victorian heroes, Blackheath world firsts, real tennis and what makes a good obituary…

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    52 mins
  • The Crown Tavern with Giles Milton

    The Crown Tavern with Giles Milton
    Nov 13 2025
    In this episode Tam and Geoff go to the tavern in Clerkenwell where Lenin met Stalin for the first time - allegedly - to meet renowned author and historian Giles Milton who tells us all about Stalin and how the British and Americans persuaded him to enter the Second World War, the origins of MI6 and who really killed Rasputin....

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    50 mins
  • The Golden Lion with David Styles

    The Golden Lion with David Styles
    Oct 30 2025
    In this rather special episode Tam and Geoff and the team travel way outside their comfort zone to the wilds of Romford to meet top London cabbie David Styles, who teaches them about the perils of being a zookeeper’s son, how to succeed at the Knowledge, what to do with a drunk in the back of your cab and why he left Jeremy Clarkson by the side of the road in the snow….

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    45 mins
  • The Cockpit with Clare Button

    The Cockpit with Clare Button
    Oct 16 2025
    In this very pubby themed episode Tam and Geoff are joined by Clare Button who, amongst her many talents and occupations, is a pub tour guide and who gives us invaluable insights into some of London's most historic pubs and their famous clients, ghosts, William Shakespeare, Polly the Parrot and much much more....

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    45 mins
  • The Jamaica Wine House with Michael Mainelli

    The Jamaica Wine House with Michael Mainelli
    Oct 2 2025
    Our special guest for this episode is the 695th Lord Mayor of London, Professor Michael Mainelli, who gives us a fascinating insight into the history and workings of the City of London - and why he is an enthusiastic flaneur....

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    53 mins
  • The Ship with Henry Williams

    The Ship with Henry Williams
    Sep 18 2025
    Expect plenty of name dropping when Tam and Geoff chat with Henry Williams, formerly of the Evening Standard’s Londoner’s Diary, along with some serious fact dropping as we welcome back No 1 guest Mark Mason.. do you know what the City’s earliest known financial transaction was?

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    51 mins