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
Top Gear
1978
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
7.1
History 101
2020
7.4
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy
2023
7.5
Paranormal Witness
2011
7.5
Baseball
1994
7.6
30 for 30
2009
7.9
Deadly Women
2005
6.7
Biography
1987
7.6
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
8.2
Mind Field
2017
7.5
How Do They Do It?
2006
7.4
Horizon
1964
6.4
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
8.9
Mysteries at the Museum
2010
6.5
American Experience
1988
7.1
Grand Designs
1999
7.8
History's Greatest Mysteries
2020
8.2
Formula 1: Drive to Survive
2019
7.5
MegaStructures
2004
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The 800 Million Pound Railway Station
2007
7.7
Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube
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7.9
The Savoy
2020
The Night Bus
2015
Pineapple Dance Studios
2010
6
The Great Smog: Winter of '52
2022
Notorious London: A City Tour
2021
10
The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson
2019
8
7/7: The London Bombings
2025
10
The Great Fire: In Real Time
2017
9.3
Hospital
2017
5.8
Camden
2024
8
The Magnificent Three: Amsterdam, London, New York
2017
8
Inside London Fire Brigade
2017
3.7
London Calling
2015
8.2
Murder Maps
2015
7.2
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2025
7
School Swap: UK to USA
2025
10
BBC Inside Out: London
2002