If you've been wondering what on earth has been happening about the lack of London Landscape TV episodes recently, you're not alone. For all good work reasons, my job has been madly busy over the last few months and it's not about to let up anytime soon. Whilst I have been into central London as part of my work, I've never really been able to get out my big'n'gorgeous Sony HDV camera to do some proper filming. Fortunately my job as head of R&D at Tesco.com (the online arm of the UK's biggest food retailer) has involved amassing video evidence as I conduct projects and to help make this happen I've acquired a small Sony HDR-TG3 palm HD camcorder that takes stunning HD 1080 video footage, recorded straight onto memory-stick (no moving parts). Recently I was giving a speech in the heart of the old city of London close to the Bank of England, and I was determined to take the new camera on a field-trip on behalf of London Landscape TV viewers. I hope you enjoy the result and, as a result of using this new camcorder for work, I will be delighted to bring you great film of London whenever I am at its heart - which is regularly. Here is some great film of some of the most amazing buildings in London filmed on the Sony TG3 - and don't forget I was in a dapper suit and tie for the whole session!

It's been nearly three months since the last episode of LLTV - mainly caused by me need to focus on my day job as Head of R&D at the online service of UK supermarket Tesco. However August has arrived and the crescendo has passed (at least for now) so once again I have indulged my creative side and enjoyed lunchtime on Friday 7th August at Borough Market. The market is located on the South Bank of the Thames adjacent to Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station, nestling under a large set of metal and brick railway arches with trains rolling above. All kinds of food from nearly every culture are served here, so its great to enjoy the market on an empty stomach and follow your nose to the best cooking scents. The market is a riot of colour too, and is completed with amusing written quotes printed on hanging signs attached to the underside of the railway girders. An unmissable experience!

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!