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This bonus episode is our love letter to Ye Olde Mitre, one of London's most hidden and historically rich pubs. When we visited recently, the bar staff gave us one of the most friendly welcomes we've experienced in a busy city center pub. So, this episode is our return gift to you.

Tucked down a narrow alleyway off Hatton Garden, accessible only through a passage barely wide enough for two people.

We trace the site's remarkable 700-year backstory. From a medieval Bishop of Ely's palace that hosted John of Gaunt, King Henry VII, and King Henry VIII, through the story of Christopher Hatton (the dancing commoner who became Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor and gave Hatton Garden its name), to the street's evolution into the world's diamond capital and the scene of the 2015 Hatton Garden Heist.

We also explore Ye Olde Mitre's famous jurisdictional quirk. The the land belonged to the Diocese of Ely in Cambridgeshire, the pub was technically not in London for most of its existence, meaning Victorian criminals could outrun the Metropolitan Police by ducking through its alleyway.

The episode closes with a practical guide to the pub's interior and a warm personal note from Host & Producer Expat Andy after a recent visit.

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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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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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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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Step into the bustling streets of old East London, where the air is thick with history and the scent of freshly baked pies, and discover the story behind one of the city’s most iconic comfort foods, now part of Britain's "Heritage Foods Movement".

This bonus episode serves up more than just pie and mash—it’s a journey through generations of grit, flavor, and tradition, from eel-slinging street vendors to the tiled institutions still standing today. You’ll meet the legendary families who built this culinary empire, uncover the surprising origins of that vivid green “liquor,” and feel the pulse of a city that fed its people fast, cheap, and with heart. By the end, you won’t just be hungry—you’ll be planning your own pilgrimage to London, ready to pull up a marble-topped table, order a “two and two,” and taste a living piece of history.

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Join Publicity – The Guidebook Gap in our two-mile walking tour of Charlie Chaplin’s London neighborhood. Our walk maps how institutional poverty and family chaos produced the raw material of Chaplin’s art.

We’ll visit pubs, music hall sites, residences, markets, and street art in Walworth, Kennington, Lambeth, and Camberwell. Discover how Chaplin’s character of The Tramp was not invented in California but assembled from lived experience on these specific streets.

We begin with Chaplin's disputed birth on East Street in 1889, run through his parents' separation, mother Hannah's mental collapse, the workhouse, the pauper school at Hanwell, and the death of his alcoholic father.

We then follow Chaplin’s professional growth from a childhood spent absorbing crowd mechanics at the Canterbury Music Hall, to Fred Karno's mime-based training at the Fun Factory in Camberwell, where the grammar of silent performance was drilled into him six years before Hollywood needed it.

We pivot through Chaplin’s American ascent, The Tramp's debut at Keystone in 1914, the political courage of The Great Dictator, and the revocation of his re-entry permit at sea in 1952, before closing with his honorary Oscar, his 1975 knighthood, and that stolen coffin.

At our final stop at the Chaplin Mosaics at Chandler Hall on Lambeth Walk where we consider that pub back rooms created music hall, music hall created Chaplin, and Chaplin by removing dialogue, turned a South London street education into a global art form.

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In 1850, a Victorian journalist walked into Bermondsey and wanted to head back for the door. His senses assaulted by raw hides, tanning pits, human urine, pigeon and dog feces, slaked lime, and ground oak bark.

The unmistakable fragrance of a neighborhood that had been turning dead animals into leather for five hundred years.

Today it's barley malt over dead cows and dog feces, a significant upgrade for the community.

How do you get from bovines to barley, cows to craft beer in one postcode? We’re going to decode that in this episode.

Our story involves a cheesemonger who went to New York and came home furious. An Austrian general who made the catastrophic decision to tour a brewery full of people who despised him. And a working-class community that held an entire neighborhood together long enough for something remarkable to happen inside it.

It's a pub crawl, of sorts. By the end I'll make the case that a taproom in a Victorian railway arch isn't a departure from the London pub. It's the most honest evolution of it in fifty years and built on a logic that's been running in this neighborhood for half a millennium. Find the space nobody else wants and do something essential in it.

This is Publicity – The Guidebook Gap. I’m your host, Expat Andy, broadcasting from Miami in the Sunshine State. My job is to be your insider guide to the London that doesn’t make it onto the highlight reel - the London that’s hidden in plain sight, decoded through its pubs – if you know where to look.

Pull out your walking shoes. Episode Eleven - The Bermondsey Beer Mile, Going The Extra Mile drops Monday April 20 wherever you get your podcasts.

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A late 19th century South London childhood shaped by poverty, illness, and instability. These are the tough beginnings of a generational creative talent that would emerge into global stardom, and exile.

On these South London streets, and in the backrooms of its pubs, the music hall begins. Unruly, unforgiving audiences. If you wanted attention, you earned it. This is where Charlie Chaplin learned his craft – born out of survival.

A performer at aged five. Workhouses at age seven. On stage again before age ten. By his twenties, Chaplin leaves for America to join a new start up industry - moving pictures. Within years, he becomes the most recognizable figure on earth, a self-made man.

The Tramp. The walk, the resilience, the quiet defiance. It originated not in California, but South London. In the next episode of Publicity – The Guidebook Gap, we’ll walk Charlie Chaplin’s formative years through Walworth, Kennington, and Lambeth. The workhouse, music halls, eviction addresses, and the pub where he last saw his father. Every stop a chapter in how a South London kid in borrowed clothes became the most recognizable person on earth.

Charlie Chaplin’s London - Poverty. Pubs & Music Halls, Episode 10 available Tuesday April 7 wherever you get your podcasts.