ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Do London Differently is a podcast series hosted by London National Park City Ranger Emily Langston and produced by Michael Shilling.
Have have relaunched in 2025 with a new format - sharing how Londoners are making the city Greener, Healthier and Wilder.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
31 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
60 episodes
since Oct. 19, 2021
episodic
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Sixty years on from the opening of the BT Tower, and with its redevelopment into a hotel and leisure complex now underway, this audio walking tour explores Fitzrovia and the neighbourhoods living in the shadow of the tower.
Cultural historian David Anderson and artist researcher and London National…
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How does a scientific society founded in 1788 end up funding teenagers to build ponds and paint murals?
Michael sits down with Dan Simonsen, Education Manager at the Linnean Society, to unpack the Our Local Nature Grant and its Youth Panel. These are grants of up to £1,000 for youth-led nature proj…
Walking artist, activist and academic Morag Rose, founder of the Loiterers Resistance Movement, explores how walking can be a creative art form and an act of resistance. Drawing on her book The Feminist Art of Walking, she makes the case that the streets belong to everyone, and that keeping public …
Recorded at the University of Westminster on 15 May 2026, introduced by Dr Tom Cohen. A Do London Differently production.
Iain Sinclair arrived the way he always travels. On foot. That morning he set out from his front door in Hackney, followed a Footways route across the city, and treated the keyn…
Episode type: London Walking Festival 2026 Special (final episode)
Recorded at: Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London
Guest: David Harrison, co-founder of Footways and creator of the Historic Ways map
In the final walking festival special of the series, Michael talks to David Harrison at St B…
Walking is London's most common form of transport, but it rarely gets the attention it deserves. In this London Walking Festival special, Michael Shilling sits down with Will Norman, London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner, to unpack TfL's new Walking and Wheeling Action Plan.
Will…
Filmed on location along the route by Michael Shilling, with Lola May (Community Climate Action Coordinator, Paddington Development Trust) and Eman Asir (Library Officer, Westminster Libraries).
What is The Natural Way? A fully accessible, six-mile circular walking route through North Paddington, i…
Episode: Walking Festival Special Recorded at: London National Park City Visitor Centre, Mortimer Street Host: Michael Shilling
Guests: Catherine Woodhead, CEO, Living Streets Emma Griffin, Co-founder, Footways
Episode Summary: A National Walking Month special exploring the state of walking in Lond…
London Rivers Week turns 10 this year, and we are celebrating with a special episode. Liz Gyekye, Communications Manager at Thames 21, joins host Michael Shilling to talk about the festival, the charity's work protecting the River Thames and its tributaries, and how you can get involved.
Runni…
Episode summary: Michael Shilling talks to Scott Oughton-Johnson, founder of The Proper Blokes Club, about how a single walk in Southwark in September 2020 grew into a network of 25 to 30 walk-and-talk groups for men across London. They discuss men's mental health, the power of walking side by…
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