Guests

Ep 4 Jonnie Fielding

Jonnie Fielding is the founder of Bowl of Chalk 'One of the best London walking tours' (Time Out London), a self-confessed curistorian and poster of fun London facts on numerous social media platforms. In September 2025 his first book 'Why is Downing Street Painted Black? And 364 other fun London facts', was published by Mudlark, a Harper Collins Imprint. 'Jonnie made me see London through a whole new set of eyes - the beauty in every corner of it. He is full of intrigue, facts and fun and has been a huge part of my love for the place I now call home'. James Corden .The man is a conduit for the city's soul, distilling its chaotic history into digestible, engaging narratives'. The Times

Ep 3 David Fathers

David Fathers is a writer, illustrator and designer of six guidebooks to the capital. In 2012, his first book, The Regent's Canal, was published and he has since gone on to create books on The London Thames Path, London's Hidden Rivers, Bloody London and Diverse London. His latest book, Green London, explores the verdant spaces and pathways within the capital.

Ep 2 Ann Laffeaty

Ann Laffeaty has worked as a journalist for 45 years. She has been fascinated by pubs since childhood when she would spend hours sitting outside one in the back of the car with a Pepsi squabbling with her brother while waiting for her parents. She began her pub blog - Where London's History Happened: in a Pub - in 2017 and has uncovered numerous stories about plots, muders and historic meetings in London pubs.

Season 2 Ep 1 Look back on 2025 with Tam

To begin 2026 and introduce Season 2 of TimeTable London Tam looks back over the dozen 2025 episodes and relives some of the memorable podcasting moments those episodes have produced.

Ep 12 Christmas from the Devereux with Patrick Kidd and Mark Mason

Back by popular demand, guests Patrick Kidd and Mark Mason descend upon the Newton Corner at the Devereux to tell tales of festive fun and London Christmases past and present.

Ep 11 Maureen Lipman

Maureen Lipman left Hull in 1965 to train at LAMDA. Film credits include Up the Junction, Educating Rita and The Pianist. She spent 3 years in Olivier's Old Vic company, has appeared in over 30 West End plays and 4 one-person shows including Re Joyce and Rose. She has starred in sitcoms, Agony, Agony Again and Ladies of Letters and her own series of plays, About Face, as well as the award winning plays of her late husband Jack Rosenthal, Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bennett and Alan Plater. She has also filmed reality and travel documentaries, such as Memory, DNA Journey, Art Deco, Style and Celebrity Gogglebox. For the past 6 years she has shouted at everyone in Coronation Street as the battle-axe Evelyn Plummer, winning best comedy award 4 years running. She has published 120 books of autobiography and cartoons and is the proud recipient of Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Hull, Salford, Sheffield and Tel Aviv. She was awarded a CBE in 1999 and a Damehood in 2020. Maureen has writer children, Amy and Adam Rosenthal, and her grandchildren (geniuses naturally) Ava (13) and Sacha (10) are budding poets and painters. Maureen lives in London.

Ep 10 Patrick Kidd

Patrick Kidd is a journalist who has written for the Times since 2001 and, now freelance, also writes on sport, politics, culture and religion for a variety of newspapers and magazines. An anthology of his political sketches, The Weak are a Long Time in Politics, was published in 2019.

Ep 9 Giles Milton

Giles Milton is the million-copy, internationally bestselling author of thirteen works of narrative history. His books have been translated into twenty-five llanguages. Milton's most recent book is The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War. It was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'. Milton is the writer and narrator of Sony's acclaimed podcast series, Ministry of Secrets:

Ep 8 David Styles

David Styles has been a London cabbie for over 25 years, was features editor at Radio Taxis and is author of CabbieBlog.com which relates the many entertaining stories and facts about London he picked up while driving around the streets of the capital and acquiring 'The Knowledge'.

Ep 7 Clare Button

Clare Button is an archivist, writer, proof-reader and pub tour guide with Liquid History Tours. She has written for popular and academic audiences on subjects from folk song and dance to animal genetics (and promises there is a link between the two). She is also on a one woman mission to drink in every one of London's pubs - and yes, she has a spreadsheet

Ep 6 Michael Mainelli

Professor Michael Mainelli is a scientist and economist promoting social advance through better finance and technology. He is Chairman of Z/Yen Group, the City of London's leading think-tank and President of the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Michael was the 695th Lord Mayor of London 2023-2024 and Sheriff 2019-2021, is active in 17 livery companies, past Master of the World Traders and an Alderman of the City of London for Broad Street, with charity interests in the environment, education and care. Michael and his German wife are obsessive Londoners, amateurs in the true sense of the history, the geography and the psychogeography of this wonderful city, but especially the City of London.

Ep 5 Henry Williams

Henry Williams began his Fleet Street career on the street's last surviving weekly, covering daily fluctuations in the short term bond market. Jealousy at covering the same material as bankers at a fraction of the cost led him into the private security and corporate investigations sectors, with periodic outings at the Evening Standard's Londoners Diary and other magazines to still his occasional literary yearnings.

Ep 4 Laura Miller

Laura Miller is Clerk of the Chamberlain's Court at Guildhall, the first woman to assume the post since it was established in 1297. A major part of her role involves admitting people to the Freedom of the City of London in an ancient ceremony dating back to the 13th century. Laura is a member of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and imparts her considerable knowledge of the City as a Green Badge Guide and a City of London Guide.

Ep 3 Katie Wignall

Katie Wignall is a London tour guide and history presenter. She's been running award-winning London walking tours since 2015 and qualified as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide in 2018. Her business, Look Up London is ranked one of the top 5 London tours out of thousands on Tripadvisor and each week she shares a blog about a slice of London's hidden history in her Wednesday morning newsletter on Substack.

Ep 2 Matt Brown

Matt Brown has been a contributor, editor and now editor-at-large of Londonist for 20 years. His explorations of the capital have taken him into the sewers (five times), various catacombs and bunkers, abandoned Tube stations and *inside* London Bridge. He's had tea with the Lord Mayor and driven a double-decker bus. In short, he's London obsessed. His books include Everything You Know About London is Wrong and the award-winning Atlas of Imagined Places. He also writes the popular Londonist: Time Machine substack, which delves into London's history from peculiar angles.

Ep 1 Mark Mason

Mark Mason’s book Walk the Lines saw him walking the entire London Underground system, overground. He spends his time writing for the Spectator, leading guided London walks, and hosting team-building sessions based around magic tricks. Head to his homepage for details of his portfolio career (one friend called it ‘more port than folio’).

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