London and the Thames

In Episode 2, Melvyn Bragg examines literary London, from William Wordsworth to Martin Amis.

Starting with Wordsworth's celebration of a London dawn, written at Tower Bridge, Bragg travels by river boat and double-decker bus to explore the capital's rich literary history.

Novelisy Martin Amis reads from Dickens, and Boris Johnson MP from an 18th-century issue of The Spectator.

Bragg also discovers treasures from sources as diverse as the Illustrated London News and detective fiction: