Podcast episodes
Season 2
S02 E29 - Chapter 29- London Bridge Stands (c.1013)
The Story of London takes a moment to examine one of the great urban myths of London- the idea that the nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ was based on a real life attack by some Vikings in or near the year 1013. Was i...
S02 E28 - Chapter 28- The King in the North (1010-1013)
This is it… the start of the end game of King Æthelred of England; three years of destruction, mayhem, murder, intrigue, false hopes, and growing problems in both England AND Denmark was to set up for another battle at the walls o...
S02 E27 - Chapter 27- The War of the Thames (1003-1009)
In the winter of the year 1009, an overlooked conflict broke out on the river Thames; on one side the fleet of the most feared Vikings in Europe. The other? London. This chapter explains how this campaign came about, and how an...
S02 E26 - Chapter 26- A most just extermination? (1001-1003)
London was to witness one of the darkest moments of the era with the St. Brice’s Day Massacre; but what actually happened? Did the King really order the deaths of all the Danes of England? And how did that impact London going for...
S02 E25 - Chapter 25- The Wolves of London (995-1001)
Fresh from the defence of the city, the residents of London suddenly have to cope with some dramatic changes. A new Bishop of London exploded upon the city, with barnstorming sermons and a ferocious legal mind… and the King sudde...