St. James's Park is a beautiful landscaped mix of lake, woodland and grassy areas between Buckingham Palace and Whitehall (home of UK Government). In this episode, filmed Thursday 15th May 2008, we take a stroll through the park observing the peaceful scenery and watching the people make their way from work, as well as ducks and squirrels (who are already home). A peaceful park in the middle of London's urban bustle.

The Woolwich Ferry is a boat service across the River Thames which is operated by the London Borough of Greenwich, and licensed and financed by London River Services, the maritime arm of Transport for London. The boats carry foot passengers and any sized vehicles from bicycles to the largest lorries. The service links Woolwich in the London Borough of Greenwich with North Woolwich in the London Borough of Newham. It also links two ends of the inner London orbital road routes - the North and South Circular Roads. A ferry service had operated across the river at Woolwich since at least the 14th century. The free ferry service was instigated by Sir Joseph Bazalgette using powers granted in the Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act 1885, and was officially opened on 23 March 1889. This episode will take you on the crossing over the Thames, observing the Thames barrier from the seaward (unprotected) side. The two ferry boats in operation 'synchronise' with each other, passing each other as one heads south and one heads north, swapping shores every few minutes.

The Thames Barrier, built over ten years from 1974, protects London from the occasional tidal storm surges that could cause massive flooding by an overflowing Thames. It's a beautiful 'building' on the river, seen in this video from both land and the river itself. Filmed Friday 18th April 2008.

Spring in Trafalgar Square - a great meeting place for Londoners and visitors alike. As warmth takes hold in London, we join people meandering through the square, watching the fountains, checking their maps, climbing over the lions at the base of Nelson's Column, and sightseeing the 'fourth plinth' which is currently holding Thomas Schütte’s sculpture Model for a Hotel 2007, unveiled in November 2007. It is built of specially engineered glass in yellow, red and blue which collects the light, reflecting it through the edges. Filmed in early April 2008, just before the weekend turned cold and snowy again!

As Sunday 30th March 2008 dawned in London it brought mild, warm winds and beautiful sunshine.- as if to make up for the fact that this particular day was only 23 hours long as the clocks have just moved forward! Jumping on the bike I pedalled into the centre of London and crossed over to the South Bank using Jubilee Bridge, which is where this episode starts. The South Bank is a term used to describe 'Queens Walk' which starts at the GLC building and the London Eye (millennium wheel) and heads East along the Thames. At every step are street entertainers, restaurants, theatres and more. As you'll see, the sunshine brought out many Londoners to enjoy this first sense of Spring. (I use the title 'South Bank Show' as it was a popular arts programme on British TV in the 80s and 90s).

If there is a slightly 'hurried' feel to this week's episode, it's because I endured the falling sleet and snow of a Bank Holiday Monday (24 March 2008) to bring you these pictures, fearing all the time for the health of the video camera seeing as how electronics and water rarely mix! So, you may not find this episode relaxing but you should find my visit to Fleet Street full of the most interesting buildings - of churches nestled in amongst the public houses, of offices ancient and modern, and of ex-printing works of well known British newspapers such as The Times and the Express. The film starts at the Temple end of Fleet Street (close to where last summer's episode 'Temple: It's The Law!' also starts which heads south through Temple Bar). We then walk towards the east end where St. Paul's Cathedral stands.

(This episode has been updated because the original video file was somehow corrupted whilst being uploaded to my podcast service provider. Please accept my apologies if you downloaded this episode twice - this 'updated' version is the one to watch). In this special edition episode I wanted to capture London from the point of view of millions of Londoners as they live and work all around London every day. The best place to to this? From an upstairs seat at the front of a typical red London bus. You’ll be taking a 23 minute near-realtime journey on London bus no. 328. The entire route of the 328 is from Golders Green to Chelsea but this episode picks up the journey from West Hampstead and ends as it arrives in Notting Hill. If you would like to follow the journey you can download appropriate maps from the www.londonlandscape.tv web site. The reason for ‘near’ realtime is that the journey I filmed involved a lot of stopping, so I have edited out unnecessary stop time which has removed 7 minutes from the usual 30-minute journey and makes the episode flow better. What will you see? You will see no world-famous landmarks, no well-known buildings, just London suburbs wealthy and not so wealthy as the bus travels through them. Observe the people, the vehicles, the buildings, the shops. This episode is an exercise in ambiance taking in the ‘ordinariness’ of one day in March 2008. The ambiance is not just visual - for the soundtrack to this episode I have recorded that day’s (14 March 2008) tune across the most popular radio stations in London. They feature, in soundtrack order: BBC London (news / talk / music) Capital Radio (chart music) Heart (middle-of-the-road + chart music) LBC (news / talk / phone-ins) Virgin Radio (rock / classic hits) Choice FM (hip-hop / r&b) Kiss 100 (dance music / youth) Magic (classic hits) Classic FM (classical music) Gaydar Radio (dance / clubbing music) Smooth FM (middle-of-the-road music) XFM (rock / indie music) BBC Radio 4 (news & entertainment). On the LLTV website, each of the above radio stations has a link to its own website where you can find out more. All the above stations give you the ability to listen online but some may be restricted to listeners in the UK only for licensing reasons. These radio stations are amongst the most popular in London by audience size but there are plenty of other stations (around 15 on FM and more than 50 on DAB digital radio) including specialist cultural community stations in various spoken languages from Greek and Polish to Punjabi and Arabic, just about any sort of music genre from pop to jazz, classical to hip-hop, as well as religious stations for christian, jewish, islamic, hindu and sikh faiths. There are radio stations just for kids, for the armed forces, and for the elderly. There’s even a station run by the UK Department for Transport called ‘Traffic Radio’ that just transmits non-stop traffic bulletins. Enjoy the trip! Technical info: In order to get the best picture quality for the smallest download size for such a long episode, the picture size in this episode is 960x540 and the bitrate averages 1485kbps.

The British Museum in Holborn, central London, is your complete guide to human history and culture. Its collections, which number more than 13 million different items from around the globe, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.

This episode explores the architecture of the museum, and visits just a few of the many galleries of objects on offer.

The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.

The Great Court opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe. The roof is a glass and steel construction with 1,656 uniquely shaped panes of glass. At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras. The Reading Room is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there.

Filmed 19 February 2008

Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge which is more than 100 years old, spanning the River Thames linking Hammersmith to Barnes. The main structure is built of wrought iron and is 700ft long and 43ft wide.

This episode takes you on a short journey from Hammersmith Bridge along the north shore of a bend in the River Thames, taking in boat communities,  rowing teams, and life on the water.

The bridge has had a dramatic life from buckling under the weight of heavy traffic to being subject to terrorist bombing. The fact that it survives and remains open today is testament to the love of the local community who have rallied to support it.

The current suspension bridge was designed by noted civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and rests on the same pier foundations constructed for an older bridge designed by Tierney Clark. It was opened by the Prince of Wales on 11 June 1887.

If you have an Apple TV it should have performed its software update by now (more info here), offering a great new interface and easy access to London Landscape TV episodes.

Follow this 2 minute tutorial to get London Landscape TV episodes directly to your Apple TV (without the need for a computer/iTunes to sync with) so you can enjoy high definition video of London on your HDTV screen.