Podcasts and audio files
Download one of the Museum’s audio files to hear past lectures and especially recorded podcasts.
Boris Johnson’s lecture on Samuel Johnson
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, gave an entertaining and insightful lecture about Samuel Johnson at the Harcourt Lecture and Museum Annual Dinner on Wednesday 11 November 2009. The Mayor’s famously dishevelled locks also found their historical antecedent in our collections in the form of an Edwardian coachman’s wig that bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson’s own coiffure.
Listen to this: Boris Johnson’s lecture (MP3 20mb) - please note this file may take a long time to download.
Boris Johnson’s speaks about Samuel Johnson at the Museum of London with Jack Lohman, the Director of the MuseumPodcasts from the past
Podcasts from the London Before London gallery explain how the first Londoners utilised natural resources to amazing effect, constructing flint hand axes, wooden clubs, antler combs, clay pots and bronze spearheads.
