There is no better way to see many of the landmarks of London than from the River Thames. And there's no better time to do this than in the evening as twilight descends over the city, and it lights into life. In this episode, travel with us on a river cruise and watch the night descend over some fascinating architecture from the Houses of Parliament and Millennium Wheel to Battersea Power Station and the MI5 Intelligence HQ building. Technical note: In order to maximize your viewing enjoyment (and to prevent 'motion-sickness') a great deal of image stabilization has been applied, both during recording and in post-production. The result is an amazingly smooth watching experience but you may find that the high definition pictures may a little 'soft' on detail in places. The video was shot at 1920x1080, allowing a 'stabilizing headroom' given that the finished images required 1280x720 resolution. However a couple of shots required extra work to stabilize, resulting in a few occasionally soft pictures.

This episode brings a hectic spectator-eye view of one of London's most exciting annual events, the Flora London marathon. Join me at three major vantage points on the marathon route - Canary Wharf, Tower Bridge and the finishing post at Buckingham Palace - as I jostle with a friendly and enthusiastic crowd to bring you these high definition shots with the camera held mostly at arms length vertically above my head!

Spring has truly reached London, and the first flowers bloom as we join both people and wildlife enjoying the sunshine in beautiful Holland Park, near Kensington in west London on Sunday 29th March 2009.

In this episode I have dropped the music and boosted the 'bit-rate' quality of the audio so you can enjoy the birdsong and other background sounds of spring in the park. I used the camera's forward-pointing XLR condenser microphone to avoid 'motor-whirr' being heard from the camera itself.

I hope you enjoy this episode and get that sense of spring coming from your computer or TV!

Sunday 15 March 2009 saw London presenting an excellent St. Patrick's Day Festival celebrating all things Irish.

Trafalgar Square hosted a main stage with great traditional Irish music, and was opened by London's Major Boris Johnson. With perfect blue skies and glorious spring sunshine weather, as you will see the good humour flowed. That included people offering 'Free Hugs', an excellent way to get in a really good mood and a perfect start to this episode.

So raise a Guinness and wish each other Happy St. Pats!

I have had many requests from viewers asking about how London's 2012 Olympic Village is getting on. I am pleased to say that, as this video shows, there has been a vast change since I visited the site last summer. I took the opportunity to start at the same place as I filmed from last year then cycled along the canals that surround the Olympic village site to give a full perspective on the building works as well as reveal a 'hidden' london of peaceful canals and waterways. This episode starts with a map of the Olympic Village but if you would like to cross-reference, head to http://maps.google.co.uk and search for "pudding mill lane". This is a Docklands Light Railway station which has existed for some time but now finds itself in the heart of the Olympic village site. Although the Google aerial photography has not yet caught up with the building works, you can still clearly see the main roads and canals surrounding the site. This episode was filmed on Monday 2nd March 2009 - about 1400 days to go...!

At last the snow has cleared (although the cold has not yet relented) so as London returned to normal operations, I took the camera to a work meeting and used the opportunity of my location at Charing Cross to film afterwards.

Charing Cross is next to Trafalgar Square and the Strand, and just over the river from the Millennium Wheel.

Wikipedia notes that Charing Cross is named after a long demolished monument religious cross. The name originates from the Eleanor cross erected between the former hamlet of Charing and the entrance to the Royal Mewsf the Palace of Whitehall in 1291-4 by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. The cross was the work of the medieval sculptor, Alexander of Abingdon. Originally built in wood, it was quickly replaced with a stone and marble monument. The name of the hamlet is derived from the old english word cierring, referring to the large bend in the River Thames nearby.

When you view Charing Cross today it's impossible to think that this place was once a little village (or hamlet) in the countryside!

Today Charing Cross is best known for its railway station terminus and underground station. At the front of the station is the Charing Cross hotel, an upmarket place to stay in this most busy part of central London.

ALSO: This episode includes a 10-second promo for "Norway in HD" http://norwayinhd.com a very similarly-styled podcast to LLTV, showing off the very best of a very beautiful country.

On February 2nd 2009, a snowstorm brought transport chaos to London, keeping buses in their depots and causing upset to the London tube train system.

I couldn't get to the office (I work outside London) so instead I worked from home and at lunchtime jumped on a working, if disrupted, Northern Line tube train ride to the Thames and filmed the snow scenes in the centre of London.

You can enjoy the scenes without feeling the bitter north-easterly wind and the -5C (23F) temperature....!

Hello and welcome to the first episode of LLTV for 2009! As a bitterly cold January came to an end, I was determined to get some footage of London before the month was out. I had planned more filming in January but the poor weather conditions just kept ruling it out. There's only so much freezing cold and mist a video camera can take! However, on the last day of the month, the sun shone weakly through the freezing mists and lifted them enough to persuade me to jump on my bike and cycle to Primrose Hill, an up-market district surrounding the north-east corner of Regents Park. As the episode opens we catch two Sunday League Football (soccer) teams playng in the freezing haze with the BT Tower in the background. We then progress through Primrose Hill itself taking in some park life, the beautiful architecture and the village shops. I say 'village' but of course Primrose Hill is now as much a suburb of London's great sprawl as anywhere else. It is a very pleasant self-contained community of shops and well worth visiting. So welcome to London in 2009 - the LLTV filming schedule is now underway.

As London Landscape TV celebrates one million episode downloads, here’s a chance to see both extended and unused footage of scenes from 2008. This 33 minute special edition explores various parts of London in more detail than shown in original episodes, such as Trafalgar Square, the Docklands Light railway, and the beautiful river scenery surrounding Hammersmith Bridge. This special archive episode also shows previously unseen film that never made it to air in 2008, such as the satellite earth station London Teleport, used by broadcasters and communications companies as a major satellite uplink/downlink centre. Thank you very much for joining or continuing my filmatic journey through London in 2008. It all continue a-pace in 2009 as we watch the city live through the global financial crisis. What will happen to the Olympic village? The Docklands and City? The great building works witnessed in 2008? Keep watching and you’ll see more fresh film of London reveal all!

As we approach Christmas day I took the camera down to Trafalgar Square, home to various choirs throughout December singing carols to the public. This year the addition of a Nativity Crib art work was on display. On loan from St Martin in the Fields, the church which stands on the edges of Trafalgar Square itself, the nativity scene consists of several large wooden figures, including the crib and the baby Jesus made by Japanese non-Christian artist Tomoaki Suzuki who, according to the Westminster Cathedral blog "had an enjoyable time learning about the legends associated with Christmas, and then presented it in a Japanese idiom. Certainly it has the clean, minimalist look of a Japanese home (a tourist behind me said, "What? No straw!"). But it also has something of the renaissance about it."

Wow it's been nearly a month since my last episode - alas a mix of stormy weather and all-hands-to-the mill at work meant I had little time to film. So tonight I declared that enough was enough, jumped on the tube, and made my way to the very centre to film some Christmas festivities. I ended up at that excellent heart of shopping, eating, drinking and general merriment - Covent Garden Piazza. I was delighted by the festivities I found there so I hope you enjoy this very fresh episode filmed, edited and aired all on Wednesday 17th December 2008. And yes I made a donation to the excellent group of violin'ing buskers you'll see featured! More festive episodes coming between now and Christmas Day. How can I promise this? I've got the week off from next Monday - huzzah!

Victoria is a public transport hub in the centre of London, with two rail stations joined together serving the counties of Kent (to Dover) and Sussex (to Brighton). The location also features a bus and coach depot, and a major London Underground interchange too. No wonder the main views are of thousands of people passing through Victoria from one transport mode to the next! We start not far outside London Victoria Railway station, taking a look at the architecture both ancient and modern, from a Victorian Theatre (currently playing 'Billy Elliot - The Musical') to an ornate public house, to the 'shard of glass' housing Microsoft's central London offices at 100 Victoria Street. We then venture towards the main station. You can see the differing architectures of the two conjoined rail houses. As we venture inside you can see the mix of old and new, from old architecture to modern technology signs and shop fronts. And the people - thousands of them - all moving from one transport mode to the next, or watching the electronic timetable screens waiting to be told that their train is ready, and which platform they must head to.

I have had some great feedback from the 'Dinosaurs!' episode filmed at the Natural History Museum, so I pencilled in a visit to the next-door Science Museum when I was visiting colleagues in central London.

I couldn't stay long but I wanted to give you a 'sampler' of what to expect from this museum, featuring every aspect of Science from antique engineering to the latest technology.

What you see in this episode is just the ground floor. There are 6+ floors packed with exhibits so you really need a day to take it all in.

Plus: An invitation to join the London Landscape TV Viewers Group on Facebook. Come and join in the conversation, influence future filming, and get even more out of viewing this podcast!

Brompton is a beautiful ornate district of London close to Knightsbridge. So on a bright November morning I took the camera to a charming square surrounded by old houses, and visited Brompton Oratory, a church (where filming is not officially allowed) that shows off the best of the passion of religious architecture.

** Parental Guidance - this episode shows vivid high definition pictures of dinosaur skeletons which some small children may find scary. ** The Natural History Museum (South Kensington tube station) houses one of the largest collections of dinosaur skeletons and fossils in the world. The museum brings these great beasts from millions of years ago to 'life' either by rebuilding their skeletons or by using 3D life-sized animated models. This episode reveals just some of the best exhibits - but there are many more and you'll need a whole day to explore the entire museum. The museum is free for everyone to enter and enjoy. London's museums are amongst the largest and most respected in the world; great labyrinthine buildings housing treasures from history. I'll be visiting many of the great museums in the capital over the coming weeks so that if you come to London, you'll know to put these great cathedrals of history on top of your 'must see' list.

September has been a busy month for me with rare opportunities for filming (hopefully October will be a lot better!) However I took the opportunity of break in business to grab the camera and take a walk down Whitehall, home of the offices of state of the UK Government. The sense of power is palpable in this road, which travels from Trafalgar Square almost to Parliament Square. The great buildings of government feel strong and secure alongside the traditions of old - a guard standing in front of Horseguards Parade. We also peep through the doors of an wonderful old public house serving drinks in an ornate wooden interior. I intend to get this podcast back on schedule very soon, so it's best if you subscribe using a provider such as iTunes which will automatically download the latest episodes as they appear in the schedule.

During a turbulent couple of days in the world's financial markets, the global investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The bank's European 1 million square foot HQ at 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf was open only for employees to collect personal belongings at the time of filming on the afternoon of Tuesday 16 September 2008. The camera takes a look through the windows of Lehman Brothers to see what is happening in their spacious contemporary foyer. This film also takes in the scenes throughout Canada Square including the newly built giant towers belonging to Barclays and Citigroup as well as the landmark 1 Canada Square tower. The camera also watches people milling around the square and walking to and from Canary Wharf underground station and the Docklands Light Railway station Heron Quays which is part of the Lehman Brothers building. Apologies for the delay between the last episode and this one - I caught horrid man-flu and also had some business engagements which got in the way (how dare they)!.

So, you've just enjoyed the Beijing 2008 Olympics and now have to wait four years before you visit London's Olympic Park? No way, you want come over and see London's park immediately in order to avoid sporting withdrawal symptoms - and thanks to London Landscape TV you can. In this special edition of LLTV, filmed Monday, 25 August 2008, I head over to the London Olympic Park so you can take a good look. However you should be warned: it's a bit of a building site. OK, a LOT of a building site! As I pan the HD camera across the Olympic park you'll notice.. tower cranes, bulldozers, large piles of extracted ground, concrete skeletons, and some excellent arty hoardings ... I think you'll agree there is a 'small' amount of building work to complete before 2012. Well, at least you can say you were virtually here and you've had a real sense of the beginnings of the London 2012 Olympics. I'll be back from time to time to film the work as it progresses so you' ll be familiar with the Olympic Park before anyone else. I'll also make myself known to the London Olympic Organising Committee and see if I can get some 'insider' footage on your behalf as the buildings rise from the ground. Meanwhile I better do some training. Cycling is my sport and that Chris Hoy fella is pretty good with his three Golds... and he's 31 and fit. I'm 43 and cycle about one day a week for a few hours. Hmmm....

No decent visit to London should be complete without enjoying a visit to at least one great football (soccer) match. London is home to many top clubs - Arsenal (as we have already seen in our journey), Chelsea, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United are all in the Premier League and all have a huge international following with great stadiums in which to savour the atmosphere. There are plenty more clubs too - take a look at the listing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_London for more information. But this is London Landscape TV so you get to visit the greatest, most famous home of football in the world - Wembley Stadium. The stadium has just been completely rebuilt into a state-of-the-art venue hosting top football cup finals and semi-finals, as well as major concerts. In this visit on Sunday 10 August 2008, Manchester United played Portsmouth in the Football Association (FA) Community Shield. This game was doubly significant as the Community Shield celebrated its 100th birthday at this match. Now unfortunately video equipment is not officially allowed into the ground - and my pro Sony camcorder would be a bit obvious - so I used my discreet compact 'cyclecam' camcorder for this episode. Alas the picture and sound quality is some way below what you would normally expect from LLTV so please accept my apologies and we'll continue our journey in high quality and high definition from next week. I hope you you get enough from this episode to enjoy the atmosphere and get a sense of the size of such a great stadium.

At the end of the last episode we had arrived at Highbury and Islington station. For this part of the journey, we head south from this station down Upper Street finally arriving at Angel station (featuring the longest escalator in the London Underground network). Between these two stations, we take in the sights along Upper Street which is essentially the heart of Islington. Churches and parks, old shops and public houses, and traffic and people. We even walk through the antiques shopping 'mall' not far from the tube station. Islington is a very pleasant part of London and well worth a visit. Follow the journey using your desired online mapping service such as Google or Live maps, search for 'Islington' and look for Upper Street noting Highbury and Islington station at its north end. I walked south on the west side of the road down to Angel station at the bottom end of Upper Street.

Summer In The City 2008 kicks off at Highbury, an ornate part of north London with terraced houses built in beautiful Italianate villa style. I'll describe road names here so you can follow the journey using an online map if you desire. We start at the junction of Highbury Park, Highbury Hill and Leigh Road, looking north towards the village then at the tall Highgate Clock and church at this junction. We then walk down Highbury Hill looking the beautiful italiante villas with their former glory of big houses complete with servants bell. The camera pans 270 degrees finally pointing down Martineau Road (say hello to the telephone engineer - someone has to work!) and then at the giant 'ARSENAL' 3D letters in front of the walk from Drayton Park Rail station to the Emirates Stadium, new home of Arsenal football (soccer) team. The stadium is a giant complex, and comes complete with cannons. The military connection (the name, and the cannons present in the team emblem) is based on Arsenal football team's original location in Woolwich where military weaponry (including cannon balls!) were made. We leave the stadium and head down Hornsey Road to Holloway Road, taking a look at the tube station which was surfaced in tiles and opened in 1906. We then walk south along Holloway Road and look at the unusually shaped London Metropolitan University's "Graduate Centre" building designed by the internationally renowned architect, Daniel Libeskind, whose portfolio includes the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the redevelopment of the World Trade centre site in New York. Finally we take a quick glimpse of the Church of St. Magdelan and St. David before arriving at Highbury and Islington rail and tube station before we turn right next week and walk into Islington.

As I'm away on holiday at the moment and haven't filmed any really fresh film as a result, this episode will have automatically appeared on LLTV's feed by the 'future date' scheduler. Filmed at the same time as the 'Bus Ride Through The City' episode, this journey starts at Aldwych and takes a bus ride down Fleet Street to St. Paul's Cathedral. It is not as 'exciting' as the City journey but again you do get to see the people and the buildings in this very old part of London. I hope I'm having a great time on holiday and will be back to start filming 'Summer In The City 2008' soon!

All Hallows-by-the-Tower is an ancient Anglican church located in Byward Street in the City of London, overlooking the Tower of London. This episode allows you to explore the nave with its blackened walls from a WWII bomb explosion & fire, then descend to the crypts to see burial remains and an ancient Roman road. All Hallows is steeped in drama and history. It was first established in 675 by the Saxon Abbey at Barking and was for many years named after the abbey, as All Hallows Barking. The church was built on the site of a former Roman building, traces of which have been discovered in the crypt. It was expanded and rebuilt several times between the 11th century and 15th century. Its proximity to the Tower meant that it acquired royal connections, with Edward IV making it a royal chantry and the beheaded victims of Tower executions being sent for temporary burial at All Hallows. The church was badly damaged by a nearby explosion in 1649, which demolished its west tower, and only narrowly survived the Great Fire of London in 1666. It owed its survival to Admiral William Penn, father of William Penn of Pennsylvania fame, who saved it by having the surrounding buildings demolished to create firebreaks. In 1926 a Roman pavement together with many artifacts was discovered many feet below the church. Restored in the late 19th century, All Hallows was gutted by The Blitz in World War II and required extensive reconstruction, only being rededicated in 1957. Many portions of the old church survived the war and have been sympathetically restored [2]. Its outer walls are 15th century, with a 7th century Saxon doorway surviving from the original church. Many brasses remain in the interior (where one of London's brass rubbing centres is now located). Three outstanding wooden statues of saints dating from the 15th and 16th centuries can also be found in the church, as can an exquisite font cover which was carved in 1682 by Grinling Gibbons for ₤12, and which is regarded by many as one of the finest pieces of carving in London. In 1999 the AOC Archaeology Group excavated the cemetery and made many significant discoveries[3] . The church has a museum called the Undercroft Museum. All Hallows-by-the-Tower is celebrated and remembered throughout the world in the use of its name both in Dublin (All Hallows College) and in Brisbane, Australia (All Hallows' School). (most text for the description of this episode from Wikipedia). (Opening sequence with street map and aerial photography from Google Maps).

You asked for it - and you wanted it in high definition! So here it is, another bus ride - this time the No.28 as it passes through the capital's financial heart - the City of London. This time I have included the original audio from the bus ride mixed with some ambient bass guitar music to give you a great journey through the historic City. If you fancy following the journey on a map: We start at Cannon Street at the junction with Bread Street, and head east towards Queen Victoria Street. Passing Bank underground station with the Bank of England building on the left, we head on to Threadneedle Street. The bus continues along Threadneedle Street to Bishopsgate (and the corner of Liverpool Street station) before finishing at the east end of the City at Shoreditch High Street. What is particularly interesting about this 10 minute journey is the sheer amount of building work going - particularly at the eastern end of the City. New shiny towers are being built where old building once stood. There may be a 'credit crunch' but the amount of financial trade that continues to head London's way is not denting the desire of banks and financial institutions to build here. The City's Griffin (a boundary marker at every main road entrance to the City) is all but lost amongst the builder's fencing as we leave. The building works also explain the rather jarring effects from the state of the roads in the City! This episode is in high definition but the bitrate, at 1500kbps, is half the normal bitrate for LLTV episodes so there are some compression 'artifacts' present during the journey. The lower bitrate is to fit in with the 525MB/month maximum download size of my podcast service account, and also my guarantee to subscribers of LLTV who have to keep an eye on their monthly download limit.

Summer In The City 2008, LLTV's continuous journey through central London, airs from the last week of July through to the first week of September. You can be part of it! Watch this short promotional video on how you can join in and influence the journey. (To save your bandwidth given that this is a promotion , this episode is 9.5MB in size and has 640x360 image resolution - not HD!).

This episode was filmed in London's Docklands, and old victorian industrial area to the east of the City of London, now redeveloped for living, leisure and commerce. The Royal Victoria Dock is a former shipping port connected to the River Thames. Opened in 1855, it was the first London dock to be designed specifically to accommodate large steam ships. It was also the first to use hydraulic power to operate its machinery and the first to be connected to the national railway network. Like the rest of London's Docklands, its original use is now long over. From the 1960s onwards, the Royal Victoria, like all of London's docks, experienced a steady decline as the shipping industry adopted containerization, which effectively moved traffic further out into the Thames estuary at Tilbury. The dock finally closed along with the other Royal Docks in 1980. The dock fell into dilapidation although, in 1988, the French musician Jean Michel Jarre used the site for a his 'Destination Docklands' concert! Since 1994, the dock has experienced major redevelopment under the London Docklands Development Corporation. The dock itself is accessible to ships, although its western entrance has been filled in and it is now used chiefly for watersports. Its transport links have been greatly improved with new roads and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) lines running along both its north and south side. Most of the original warehouses have been demolished but the historic 19th century K-S and W Warehouses - both listed buildings - have survived. The ancient cranes dominate the waterline. They have been kept as a form of historical work of art. The dock is dominated by the ExCeL Exhibition Centre, constructed on the north quayside and opened in November 2000, and by the adjacent high level Royal Victoria Dock Bridge (which part of this episode is filmed from). The waterside location of ExCel is used to its advantage when it hosts the annual London Boat Show, with visiting vessels moored alongside the exhibition centre. On the south side of the Dock is Britannia Village. The award winning development, which included the high level footbridge, was commissioned by LDDC and carried out by Wimpey Homes, the Peabody Trust and the East Thames Housing Group between 1994 and 2000. In the distance is London City Airport, used by smaller commercial aircraft for passengers wishing to land close to the heart of London (unlike Heathrow!). The episode ends with a plane taking off and passing overhead.

This five minute episode captures the people relaxing in the warm weather at Piccadilly Circus, a famous road junction and people space in the heart of the West End close to Leicester Square. on Friday 20 June 2008. In this episode you get to sense the atmosphere of the place, from the neon and video signs, the breathtaking horse fountain, to the random community of workers, residents and tourists sitting around the large circular base of the Shaftesbury fountain and statue of Eros.

LLTV EXPERIMENTAL EPISODE In this episode I mount a cheap 'HD' camcorder (which captures video onto a solid-state memory card) and proceed to cycle my way through part of London's West End. The seven minute journey (x2 normal speed) starts just south of Regents Park and heads down Portland Place, south along Regent Street (passing Oxford Circus, the junction with Oxford Street) and through Piccadilly Circus to Leicester Square. Then bike turns north up Charing Cross Road then east towards Covent Garden before finishing at Bow Street. The journey is continuous - where you see a fade transition it is only chopping some time out of where I was at a red traffic light for a while. This episode lacks the 'finesse' I like to put into the LLTV experience - the picture and sound quality is below the finely defined detail that comes from my my main HD camcorder. In addition there is an intense amount of picture movement at times, making this episode not suitable for viewers prone to epilepsy. However I thought I would air this experiment to get your feedback. Next week I'll make up for it with a nice smooth tripod-mounted London experience! I would welcome your feedback from this episode, good and bad - please contact me via at email: nick@lansley.com with your thoughts!

Following on from the previous episode I managed to blag (London-speak for 'negotiate'!) a free trip from London Bridge to St. Katherine's Dock just beyond Tower Bridge. The trip passes the cruise liner moored next to HMS Belfast as well as taking in the buildings next to the river. I intend to film a longer trip along the river soon, so consider this a 'taster' of a future episode!

London is 'famous' for the huge amount of traffic on its roads - but is the River Thames any different? We'll watch from London Bridge (looking towards Tower bridge) as the river traffic make its presence known. No wonder most boats on the Thames are fitted with rear-view mirrors!

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.

One of London's most famous landmarks and one of its most hidden are located next to each other!

Tower Bridge is an icon of London with its rising road-decks that hinge up to allow traffic through. The bridge was opened on 30th June 1894 but, thanks to its co-location with the Tower of London, the chosen design makes it look a lot older.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_bridge for more information.

Right next to Tower Bridge's north pier (so on the north side of the Thames, surrounded by wharves and more modern buildings), are St. Katherine's Docks.

From pre-Roman times, the area known as St Katharine Docks has been a centre of commerce and trading. But the real roots of today's complex of commercial and residential buildings can be traced back to the 10th century, when King Edgar (959-975) gave 13 acres of land on the site to 13 knights with the "right" to use the land for profit which provided the basis for trade in foreign goods which continued for a thousand years.

Today St. Katherine's Docks are a secret haven for old barges made into beautiful homes, yachts and the latest millionaire floating 'ships'.

Note: All the shots in this episode were filmed on 3 February 2008 with the exception of the first 'aerial' shot which was filmed in May 2007 from the top of the Fire Monument, currently closed for refurbishment. I make a point of only using fresh film but I couldn't resist setting the scene with the older shot, especially as I couldn't do it again on the later filming day.

Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically simply as The Tower), is a historic monument in central London, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.

The Tower of London is often identified with the White Tower, the original stark square fortress built by William the Conqueror in 1078. However, the tower as a whole is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat.

The tower's primary function was a fortress, a royal palace, and a prison (particularly for high status and royal prisoners, such as the Princes in the Tower and the future Queen Elizabeth I). This last use has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower" (meaning "imprisoned").

The Tower of London has also served as a place of execution and torture, an armoury, a treasury, a zoo, the Royal Mint, a public records office, an observatory, and since 1303, the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

Filmed Sat 2 Feb 2008.

The thing that many LLTV viewers tell me they enjoy most is just seeing the 'other-ordinariness' of life in London in general, and 'people-watching' in particular.

What better place see this than a busy railway station in the heart of London's Financial district, known as 'the City'?

Liverpool Street Station is best known for linking the City of London to  London Stansted Airport, but it also serves passengers travelling to the East of England too.

By chance I happened to be on a train approaching Liverpool Street Station on 23 January 2008, and I had the HD camera with me....

It's good to kickstart the year with some drama, but the passengers of a British Airways Boeing 777 flight into London Heathrow got more than they bargained for when the engines failed to respond to a request for thrust on final approach.

As a result, the aircraft glided in on such a low trajectory that it barely passed the airport boundary fence and landed heavily on the grass verge, causing the landing gear to collapse and shear off.

The aircraft continued to bounce along the grass coming to a stop at the start of the runway.

I filmed these high-definition video pictures on  Sunday 20 January 2008, three days after the crash, as the plane was lifted onto stills in readiness to be moved to a hangar, and the investigators were still at work to discover the cause of the accident.

As London Landscape TV celebrates more than 90,000 downloads since it started at the end of April 2007, here are 30 minutes of the very best footage (including a few shots airing for the first time) of London throughout 2007.

Shown chronologically, watch London progress through the seasons as we re-visit all the great locations in the capital city that was captured for LLTV viewers since May.

This podcast goes back to basics: the only fx allowed (outside the opening titles) are fade transitions from scene to scene. The only sound is that captured by the camera as it filmed each location.

Please use this episode as your window on London. Put it up on your computer screen or LCD panel as a background. Just enjoy London from the many viewpoints the camera used. Enjoy its scenery, its architecture, and above all its people.

London Landscape TV continues its filming of the UK's capital city throughout 2008, so stay subscribed, tell all your friends, and write to me at nick@lansley.com with your feedback and places you would love to see filmed in London!

If you use iTunes please feedback your views on the LLTV podcast page (in iTunes highlight 'London Landscape TV (HD720p)' in your list of podcasts and click the right-arrow that appears next to the 'clean' tag).

Oh and have a Happy New Year!

Best regards
Nick Lansley
London Landscape TV.

Every night in December, Carol groups from London are each given an hour's slot at Trafalgar Square to sing their Christmas hearts out in front of a festive audience.

Here is a carol from one such group, filmed live in front of a free audience in front of the National Portrait Gallery.

Behind them is the tree given by Norway (as they do every year) for thanks in response to military help given by the UK in World War II.

So Merry Christmas to every London Landscape TV viewer - and watch out for some fantastic fresh film of London every week in the New Year!

12 December 2007 - I catch the sunlight fading by the River Thames as London's evening lights come to life - spectacular buildings lit up on the city's riverscape.

I then visit Leicester Square to catch some of the latest movies and enjoy the Christmas fun-fair.

Finally I join the many thousands shopping for Christmas gifts at Oxford Circus, where the great shopping districts of Oxford Street and Regent Stree meet. The Christmas lights on both streets are truly excellent tis year (I hope my HD camera did tthem justice!).

This special edition episode takes a detailed look at the spectacularly restored St. Pancras station. The station is called St. Pancras International because it now serves as the gateway to Paris and Brussels via the Eurostar trains and the Channel Tunnel. This episode closes in on the details of the 150 year old architecture with its modern embellishments, especially the restored roof with more than 14,000 glass panels. We also get to see the art that has been added to the station for its November 2007 re-opening, Best of all we get to see the whole station in action as a hub for passengers - thousands of them - making their way around the station, to and from trains, and even shopping in the basement mall. St Pancras train station was designed by William Barlow in 1863 with construction commencing in 1866. The famous Barlow train shed arch spans 240 feet and is over 100 feet high at its apex. On its completion in 1868 it became the largest enclosed space in the world. This restored arch is awesome to view - especially when standing next to the statue of St. John Betjeman: The greatest threat to the station came in 1966 with plans to amalgamate King's Cross and St Pancras. However public opinion had been sharpened by the demolition of Euston in 1962. Sir John Betjeman took up the cause to protect the station and in 1967 the Government listed the station and hotel as Grade 1. Sir John died in 1984, but his statue is left gawping at the roof while holding onto his hat! For more information on St. Pancras International, go to http://www.stpancras.com

Parliament Hill is a must-visit if you want to get a sense of the size of central London. In this episode I take the camera to the south side of Hampstead Heath in North London. From its most southerly point - a gentle sloping rise called Parliament Hill - the view towards central London is breathtaking. Parliament Hill was so named because onlookers could spot the Houses of Parliament, and even read the time from Big Ben, from the top of the hill! The episode starts with a map of London zooming into Parliament Hill followed by an aerial photograph of the hill where I stood with the camera. After a quick teasing look at the view towards the city of London, I focus the camera on a neat section of the nearby park to catch the Autumn leaves and watch people enjoying the space, whether playing football or walking along the leaf-strewn paths. I then return to the view with some spectacular close-ups of well known landmarks for a couple of minutes. I then show a 'staggered panorama' where I let the camera take a series of still HD photographs across the entire panorama and join them together. This way you get clear rather than motion-blurring pan across the entire horizontal view. Finally I end the episode by letting the camera take in the entire panorama.

We start at the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner. The Arch is a landmark for Londoners and visitors alike. George IV originally commissioned this massive monument as a grand outer entrance to Buckingham Palace and was completed in 1830 by Decimus Burton, its architect. In 1882 the arch was moved brick by brick to its present location adjacent to Wellington House (and is now in the centre of a giant roundabout filled with war memorials). After taking in some views from the top of the Arch, we head into Hyde Park and reach the Serpentine, a recreational Lake in the heart of the Park. It's a beautiful oasis away from the 'madding crowd' of central London. Finally we gather our thoughts at the new Princess Diane Memorial Fountain, which encourages visitors to paddle, to touch the water, and to gather thoughts. It's a surprisingly tranquil place that lifts the spirits and well worth a visit.

Both humans and other wildlife enjoy the leaf-fall in Hyde Park and Green Park.

As London heads into the Autumn season ('Fall' for USA viewers!), here's another film of the changing parkscape from green to golden leaves.

There is a particularly beautiful park in London's NW4 district (north west of the centre) at Hendon. Sunny Hill Park offers a rich mix of trees and grassland to bring a rural sense to the urban area - and a perfect place to film the beauty of Autumn on 11th October 2007.

Look out for the squirrel!

The heat of Summer is fading and London's millions of trees are just beginning to turn from green to gold.

This month my aim is to catch this city changing into Autumn gold using the best of high definition video.

On October 4th I had a meeting in Central London but stepped out with the HD camera to the River Thames to catch the Autumn sunshine and watch the many boats and craft plying along the waterway.

This is a very gentle episode - enjoy!

* PG Rating * - this episode contains distant shots of \'adult shop\' signs in its final minute (but no nudity or eroticism, thus the iTunes \'clean\' tag).

No filming around the west end of London would be complete without stepping into Soho.

Soho is the district bordered by Oxford Street to the north and Shaftesbury Avenue to the south. It is home to some of the best restaurants, bars and clubs in London. If you want a night of fun and hedonism, Soho will satisfy your every need!

Soho is also the home of many media companies (both print and video production).

Historically, Soho was a rather \'seedy\' area, full of strip joints and prostitution.  In the 1980s  the local government cleared out many such establishments and the gay community moved in to bring a more upmarket (if still hedonistic) sense of style to the area.

This episode starts in Soho Square, a beautiful public space just south of the Tottenham court Road end of Oxford Street. We then head south towards Old Compton Street taking in the sights of the Price Edward Theatre and some beautiful old public houses.

This episode also features a bar called the Admiral Duncan. In 1999, 2 people were killed and more than 30 were injured when a nail bomb - planted by a man intent on killing as many gay people as possible - exploded. Londoners of all walks of life were shocked and many rallied round to get the bar open again - Londoners refuse to be intimated by terrorism in whatever form in takes.

Our episode ends with a view (from a distance) of a small backwater of Soho that still attracts the \'mature straight gentleman\'!

(Piano music from the Apple application Garageband, part of iLife \'08).

London’s legal system follows ancient traditions involving the ‘Inns of Court’. Barristers and Judges, who are lawyers  appointed ‘to the bar’ are members of one of the four Inns - a sort of gentleman’s club (with women these days of course!).

We start outside the Royal Courts of Justice (also known as the Old Bailey) and take a look at the Temple Bar - an ornamental column with a a dragon on top (from the City of London’s coat of arms).

We then make our way to Ede and Ravenscroft, an ancient wig and robe maker for court officials since 1689. As we look in the window we can’t help feeling we could be Harry Potter choosing his Hogwarts robes in Diagon Alley!

Next we enter the Inns of Courts public grounds at Temple, which is named after Templar Church, a home of the Knights Templar. The church (currently being refurbished so I couldn’t enter at this time) ‘starred’ in The DaVinci Code. We’ll head back here another when refurbishment is completed.

The Inns are beautiful buildings in an oasis of peace so close to the Strand, Kingsway, and Fleet Street. Note the names of the people who work in the offices - judges, barristers and lawyers - on name placards listed outside the entrance doors.

This week we make a short visit to 'Chinatown' - a concentration of oriental shops and services between Leicester Square and Shaftesbury Avenue.

The centre of Chinatown is marked by three tall ornate oriental gates sealing off the roads to become a pedestrian area.

Here the delicious smell of Chinese cuisine permeates the air - it's difficult not to feel hungry absorbing those scents even if you've just eaten.

This episode heralds the start of a small re-branding exercise for London Landscape TV. This channel is to be called 'LLTV ONE' on-screen. The primary nature of LLTV ONE is to provide that great high quality series of static scenes that have proved so popular to date.

Not surprisingly, there is now a second channel - LLTV TWO - showing complementary, experimental and innovative content ideal for those who just can't get enough of London! For more details search London Landscape TV 2 on iTunes and go to the LLTV website:

http://www.londonlandscape.tv