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| Saturday, 24th April |
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| Rummage through a selection of salvaged treasures from 30 handpicked vintage traders. |
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| Sunday, 25th April |
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| From shade specialists to plants for pollinators, meet the growers and pick their brains on what will flourish in your garden, balcony or allotment. |
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| Rummage through a selection of salvaged treasures from 30 handpicked vintage traders. |
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| Spectacular in spring, when 2000 tulips bloom among Camellias, irises and tree peonies. |
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| London’s smallest botanical garden, densely planted with 500 labelled species grown in themed borders. |
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| This garden will surprise you with its unexpected length (160ft) and beautiful individual ‘rooms’ on different levels. |
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| A woodland garden at its peak in spring, with rhododendrons, flowering dogwoods, early roses, bulbs, ferns and rare exotics. |
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| Karen Averby reflects on the architecture and design from this golden age of hotel building and shares stories from her research of the people associated with these fashionable places. |
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| Monday, 26th April |
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| City Guide Jill Finch’s talk look back at that history and at the street today. From literary lions to waxworks and a pub that crossed the road, Fleet Street still has a tale or two to tell. |
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| Join Dr Brett Kahr to learn what Freud—having lived through WWI, the Spanish Flu, and Nazi occupation—can teach us in this new pandemic |
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| Tuesday, 27th April |
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| This talk is the fourth in our online series exploring current archaeology with a 17th century bias on Tues @ 10 from April 6th |
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| The Green Man: A review of the many theories that attempt to explain his origin and meaning. |
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| Dr Anjna Chouhan examines Shakespeare’s contradictory narratives of the sea. |
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| Using many unpublished illustrations, historian Philip Mansel shows that Napoleon was not, as Hegel called him ‘the world soul on horseback’, but above all a monarch. |
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| The story of Westminster before 1512 |
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| The Cosmic Shambles Network are hosting a night at the Royal Institution to celebrate the 'Father of the Nuclear Age', Ernest Rutherford. |
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| Learn all about the remarkable Pinwill sisters who worked as professional woodcarvers in Victorian Ermington and then Plymouth. |
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| Dave Goulson will explain why insects are in decline, and suggest how we can all help to tackle this crisis, by turning our gardens and urban greenspaces into oases for life. |
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| Wednesday, 28th April |
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| To celebrate the release of Simply Raymond: Recipes from Home, the official cookbook to the ITV series, coming out on 29th April. |
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| Elain Harwood will talk about cinemas, seaside buildings, factories and other buildings in this most fantastic of styles. |
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| Dr Denis Sivkov and Makar Tereshin speak on how the heritage of the Soviet space project is maintained and engaged with in regional museums across Russia. |
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| Amy Hare explores how hand embroidery looked to the past and to the future by creating the Art of the moment. |
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| Thursday, 29th April |
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| A presentation about the upgrade works to the Isle of Wight Railway. |
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| Listen as the team delve into the horrors of surgery before the arrival of anaesthesia and antiseptics that helped pave the way to our modern medical procedures. |
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| A talk and recreation of how amputations used to be carried out in the Old Operating Theatre. |
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| Join Stephen Walker, in conversation with celebrated British travel writer Colin Thubron, as he speaks about his new book, Beyond - the history of the first human to leave our planet. |
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| Naomi Games will talk about her father’s work on the Festival of Britain symbol following the story from the designer’s brief, development of his ideas, to winning the competition. |
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| Pay a visit to the toilet with historians Lee Jackson and Simon Fowler as they plumb the depths of London's lavatory legacy. |
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| There will be filming and pyrotechnics in the Thames around the area of the Millenium Dome in North Greenwich. |
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| Once British, Always British is a collection of two 30-minute audio dramas exploring migration to British port cities by Yemeni and Indian sailors during the 1920s. |
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| This talk will illuminate works by some leading figures such as ElLissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, Moholy-Nagy and Piet Zwart, as well as lesser known designers like Johannes Molzahn, Walter Dexel and Max Burchartz. |
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| Simon Saville will describe Butterfly Conservation’s new “Big City Butterflies” project, which will run for four years from 2021. |
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| Friday, 30th April |
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| Christine Hallett challenges some of the popular myths surrounding the allied nurses of the First World War. |
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| Peter Daniel talks about the Cato Street Conspiracy, a daring plot to assassinate the British Prime Minister and his cabinet. |
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| Learn about one of the protagonists of the Cato Street Conspiracy, a daring plot to assassinate the British Prime Minister and his cabinet. |
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| How accurate are science fiction films? Separate fact from fiction with astronomers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich |
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| Saturday, 1st May |
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