• The Thames Twenty Rivers of the World Audio Tour
Why did the wobbly bridge wobble? How do the river’s tides work? What is the hidden world under the riverbed? Working with academics from King’s College London we have created this audio tour to explore the answers to these and many more fascinating questions about our great river and its unique history.
Take your audio tour down to the river and follow the sound trail on the Rivers of the World columns along the Festival site, or listen online.
Recordings produced by Hannah Andrassy.
View from London Bridge at Night –
Steve Hollingshead
Track 1
Clip time – 123 seconds
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‘The Great Stink’ Punch Illustration –
Museum of London
Track 2
Clip time – 96 seconds
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Waterloo Bridge –
Wikimedia Commons
Track 3
Clip time – 126 seconds
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Somerset House c.1850 before the Embankment –
print from a drawing by W. Monk
Track 4
Clip time – 123 seconds
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Strand Chapel –
Paul Grundy
Track 5
Clip time – 93 seconds
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Eel –
Tony Bark
Track 6
Clip time – 93 seconds
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Millennium Bridge & Beyond –
Steve Hollingshead
Track 7
Clip time – 90 seconds
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Queen Victoria opening Blackfriars Bridge in 1869 –
Illustrated London News
Track 8
Clip time – 84 seconds
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Bankside Power Station at night, c. 1965 –
Southwark Local Studies Library
Track 9
Clip time – 126 seconds
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The Blitz –
Imperial War Museum
Track 10
Clip time – 120 seconds
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Sheep on Millennium Bridge –
Steve Hollingshead
Track 11
Clip time – 123 seconds
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1809 Drawing of the Globe Theatre based on Merian’s 1638 Illustration –
Guildhall Library
Track 12
Clip time – 96 seconds
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Frost Fair in 1683 –
Museum in Docklands
Track 13
Clip time – 96 seconds
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Barges by Hungerford Bridge, c.1870 –
Illustrated London News
Track 14
Clip time – 93 seconds
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‘The Silent Highwayman’ Punch Illustration –
Guildhall Library
Track 15
Clip time – 129 seconds
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Morris Dancers beside the Golden Hinde –
Steve Hollingshead
Track 16
Clip time – 87 seconds
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Old London Bridge: Part of Visscher's Panoramic View of London, 1616 –
Guildhall Library
Track 17
Clip time – 135 seconds
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City Hall –
Steve Hollingshead
Track 18
Clip time – 69 seconds
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D-Day –
Federal Government USA
Track 19
Clip time – 87 seconds
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A ‘stackie’ delivering hay, c. 1890 –
English Heritage National Monuments Archive
Track 20
Clip time – 129 seconds
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