Cast
Peter Ackroyd
Himself - Presenter
Jim Carter
Henry Fielding
Derek Jacobi
Tacitus
Michael Feast
Christopher Wren
Alex Jennings
Stephen Spender
Tom Hollander
T.S. Eliot
Chris Langham
Ned Ward
Philip Jackson
Samuel Pepys
Toby Stephens
Casanova
Ronan Vibert
Joseph Conrad
John Woodvine
Henry Moore
Jack Shepherd
Thomas de Quincey
Don Warrington
Ignatius Sancho
Timothy West
Henry Mayhew
Danielle Rees
Charlie Meyer
Episodes
Recommended
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
7.9
Top Gear
1978
7.1
History 101
2020
7.4
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy
2023
7.6
Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones
2023
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
7.5
30 for 30
2009
7.9
Deadly Women
2005
6.4
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
7.5
Baseball
1994
7.7
Down to Earth with Zac Efron
2020
7.4
Marvel's 616
2020
7.4
Horizon
1964
7.2
The New York Times Presents
2020
7
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
7.6
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
6.7
Biography
1987
6.6
American Experience
1988
6.2
The F Word
2005
8.1
Earth at Night in Colour
2020
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7.9
The Savoy
2020
8.5
Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube
2024
The Night Bus
2015
Pineapple Dance Studios
2010
8
WWII: The Lost Color Archives
2000
6
The Ride London to Beijing
2018
7.4
Being Gordon Ramsay
2026
The Ark
1993
The 800 Million Pound Railway Station
2007
8
7/7: The London Bombings
2025
10
The Great Fire: In Real Time
2017
9.3
Hospital
2017
8.3
Murder Maps
2015
8
Inside London Fire Brigade
2017
3.7
London Calling
2015
7
School Swap: UK to USA
2025
5.8
Camden
2024
8
The Magnificent Three: Amsterdam, London, New York
2017
8.3
The Tube: Going Underground
2016
7.2
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2025