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Publicity - Your London Travel Toolkit

Publicity - Your London Travel Toolkit

Written by: Andy Meddick The London Travel Podcast Guy
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Planning a London trip has never been easier, or more overwhelming. We have access to infinite information, yet zero clarity. Every blog, listicle, algorithm-driven 'Top Ten' pulls us in a different direction, burying the things that actually matter under an avalanche of noise.


The hidden gem, the neighborhood that makes no sense until someone explains it, the pub that unlocks three hundred years of history through silent observation of the neighborhood, none of that surfaces in an online search.


Publicity is your signal in the static. Your London Travel Toolkit, built by a Brit, to help you curate the trip you actually want to take.


On this travel podcast we explore neighborhoods through everyday spaces, including pubs – revealing rhythms, stories, and hidden histories. Favoring observation over itinerary, we give you the tools to make best use of your travel time, and not return home having missed out.


Nothing substitutes for a local, skilled, personality driven tour guide to help you navigate the streets in real life. However, by listening to this podcast before your walking tour, you'll be ready to focus your walking tour guide on the questions you need answering.


Publicity - Your London Travel Toolkit. A signal in the travel information static.

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Episodes
  • Bonus Episode - The Lord Raglan Pub, Holborn
    Apr 26 2026

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    The Lord Raglan pub recently proudly announced the launch of their new food menu.

    To congratulate the pub on this great news, we decided to gift them with a special, short, bonus episode featuring the history of their pub - The Lord Raglan, Holborn.

    Enjoy and share the joy! Send this episode onto your network. It's a great way to support British tourism, and the host of small businesses that are our historic pubs.

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    8 mins
  • Ep 12 Trailer - King's Cross/St Pancras, Look Ahead to Season 2
    Apr 23 2026

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    A preview of Episode 12 – King’s Cross, Up Down Up Again.

    The episode traces the neighborhood's arc from quiet rural crossroads to Victorian industrial powerhouse. We move through post-war decline and the grim decades of the 70s–90s, to the dramatic revival anchored by Eurostar's move to St Pancras in 2007. We end with Argent's massive £5 billion regeneration project.

    As always, the area's surviving pubs frame the whole story.

    We also make a broader announcement with a look ahead to Season 2.

    The show is rebranding as "Publicity – Your London Travel Toolkit" with the tagline "A signal in the travel information static".

    Season 2 will introduce rotating guest contributors including London tour guides and publicans. A reminder the show is a partner, not a competitor, to the London travel and tourism industry.

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    7 mins
  • Bermondsey Beer Mile - Going The Extra Mile
    Apr 21 2026

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    Before craft beer, before the taprooms, before the Saturday crowds with their route maps, Bermondsey smelled of rotting hides, urine, and dog filth. In short, industry!

    Episode 11 of Publicity - Your London Travel Toolkit pulls us south of the Thames to trace the evolution of one of London's most overlooked neighborhoods.

    From stinky medieval tanneries banished across the river by the City of London, the world's largest brewery, Victorian railway arches built of sixty million bricks, post-war council estates that held a community together through decades of industrial collapse, to the night a furious Irish cheesemonger returned from New York, rented an arch on Druid Street, and accidentally started a revolution.

    The Bermondsey Beer Mile gets decoded, Publicity style. Not just as a fun Saturday crawl, but as the latest chapter in a five-hundred-year story about what happens when a place is cheap enough and overlooked enough for the right people to do something important in it.

    The episode where a railway arch becomes the most honest expression of a pub in centuries, and where the smell of malt derives from the same story as those nose curling tanning pits, except now we have Instagram.

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    32 mins
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