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Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was not without precedent. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII - glamorous, cosmopolitan and extraordinarily popular - died in May 1910, the political, social and cultural anxieties of a nation in turmoil were temporarily set aside during a summer of intense and ritualised mourning. In The King Is Dead, Long Live the King! Martin Williams charts a period of tension and transition as one era slipped away and another took shape.

Welcome to Long Live the Queen, where we talk about some of the women who made history. And by we, I mean the royal we because ... it's just me.

Today it's easy to feel unmotivated to do, to feel and to fight for the causes that you believe in. We look at activists today – people throwing soup at Van Gogh and glueing themselves to a million-year-old dinosaur bones – and see no talent or bravery. But humans have been fighting for their freedom for many centuries. That fight had its ups and downs, for sure. But it's important to remember the "ups," so that "downs" wouldn't be so painful. That's what this podcast is about.

Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street; from a Pakistani currency trader to a Guardsman at Buckingham Palace - together, these voices paint a vivid, epic and wholly fresh portrait of 21st Century London.