In this week’s episode, hosted by Stephen Fry, discover how Covent Garden adapted to the trials and tribulations thrown it’s way by Britain’s fight against Nazi Germany:

• Put on Your Dancing Shoes written and performed by Joanna Clarke [The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden]
• Mrs Smith’s Coffin written by Joanna Clarke and performed by Stephen Fry [Dawlish, Devon and Covent Garden, London]
• Keeping Calm and Carrying On written by Joanna Clarke and performed by Jasmine Elcock [The Piazza and Bow Street, Covent Garden]

In this week’s episode, hosted by Stephen Fry, discover how Covent Garden adapted to the trials and tribulations thrown it’s way by Britain’s fight against Nazi Germany:

• Put on Your Dancing Shoes written and performed by Joanna Clarke [The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden]
• Mrs Smith’s Coffin written by Joanna Clarke and performed by Stephen Fry [Dawlish, Devon and Covent Garden, London]
• Keeping Calm and Carrying On written by Joanna Clarke and performed by Jasmine Elcock [The Piazza and Bow Street, Covent Garden]

In the first episode of our second season, hosted by the celebrated Dame Joanna Lumley, we look at Covent Garden's vice industry in the eighteenth century:

• Haddock Hogarth and Harlots written by Jasmine Silk and performed by Lulu Freeman [Covent Garden Piazza]
• Mrs Jenkins' Flogging House written by Joanna Clarke and performed by Stephen Fry [27 Catherine Street]
• Carnal Pleasures written by Robbie Stamp and performed by Kate Reid [The Shakespeare Tavern, Covent Garden Piazza]

Warning, these stories contain adult themes.

Three percent of London’s population was black in the eighteenth century. Your host Stephen Fry introduces:

• An Enslaved Child and His Two Inheritances written by Milo Harries and performed by Cassius Konneh [17 Gough Square, Holborn, London]
• A Genius in Bondage written by Sara Fleming and performed by Jasmine Elcock [the Tower of London]
• Beethoven Could Not Believe His Ears written by James Rampton and performed by Stephen Fry [Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London and The Augarten Concert Hall in Vienna]

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius”. This week we look at the downfall of Oscar Wilde with host Dame Joanna Lumley:

• Intrigue for Intrigue’s Sake written by Jasmine Silk and performed by Stephen Fry [Mayfair, Picadilly and Covent Garden]
• Still the Sight to See in London written by Jasmine Silk and performed by Stephen Fry [Holding Cell, Magistrate’s Court, Bow Street]
• From Gaol to Exile written by Jasmine Silk and performed by Stephen Fry [31 Upper Bedford Place, Bloomsbury]

“Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, Fame”. Host Dr Shama Rahman looks at people who were famous in their time, but have faded from memory, with:

• The Diva and Her Diamonds written by Sarah Fleming and performed by Dame Joanna Lumley [Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London]
• Not a Page in Petticoats written and performed by Kate Reid [Theatre Royal, Vere Street, London]
• I Have Been a Slave, I Know What Slaves Feel written by James Rampton, performed by Jasmine Elcock [7 Solly Terrace, Pentonville, London]

For this week’s episode we journey back in time with host Dame Joanna Lumley to Anglo-Saxon London, with:

• Wattle, Wyrms and Wyrd Sisters written by Robbie Stamp and performed by Shama Rahman [under the foundations of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London]
• The Lay of Nine Herbs written by Robbie Stamp and performed by Olivia Bell [Maiden Lane, Covent Garden]
• Run For Your Life written by Robbie Stamp and performed by Lulu Freeman [earthworks under the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London]

This week’s episode does exactly what it says on the tin, as host Stephen Fry bobs about with:

• Go On Then, Impress Us written by James Rampton and performed by Cassius Konneh [Peckham Manor School, south east London and the Lyceum Ballroom, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London]
• Not Your Usual Busker written by James Rampton and performed by Dame Joanna Lumley [near Covent Garden tube station, London]
• The Bob That Changed the World written by James Rampton and performed by Shama Rahman [108 Bond Street, London]

In this episode, with host Dame Joanna Lumley, we look at seventeenth and eighteenth century celebrity criminals, with:

• The Highwayman of Hearts written by Olivia Bell and performed by Joanna Clarke. [Hampstead Heath, Chandos Place and St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden]
• The Pregnant Pickpocket with Four Hands written by Olivia Bell and performed by Lulu Freeman. [Lodgings in Long Acre and in and around Covent Garden]
• Somone’s Sneakin’ Round the Corner written by Olivia Bell and performed by Zak Ghazi-Torbati. [The Black Lion Pub, Drury Lane, various London gaols and Tyburn]

In this episode, hosted by Robbie Stamp, we look at the history of the Covent Garden Piazza, with:

• This Beautiful Fruitful Rectangle written by Robbie Stamp, performed by Stephen Fry [Covent Garden Piazza, London]
• A Much Tidier View for the Duke written by Joanna Clarke, performed by Jasmine Elcock [Covent Garden Piazza, London]
• Concrete Garden Anyone? written by Joanna Clarke, performed by Dame Joanna Lumley [Covent Garden Piazza, London]

Your Host Shama Rahman looks at the artistic side of Covent Garden in this week’s episode, with:

• Black Swans written by Viel Richardson and performed by Jasmine Elcock [Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London]
• Theatre of Blood written by Becky Stamp and performed by Stephen Fry [The Lyceum Theatre, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London]
• Jane Austen Sees a Portrait written by Sarah Fleming and performed by Kate Reid. This story contains adult themes [Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London]