The Literary London podcast.
Episodes
Literary London - Celebrating Tennessee Williams.
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of writer Tennessee Williams - in his own words! Tennessee reads from his own plays and a short story. www.Bohem...
Celebrating Jack Kerouac: A Dive into 1950s Beat Poetry.
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Kerouac's birthday takes Nick Hennegan back to 1950's America and a celebration of the Beat Poets. www.BohemianBritain.com
The Literary Request Show
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan takes your requests for music and poetry on 'Literary London' on Resonance 104.4fm. Includes beat poetry, music... and one of Nick's own...
Celebrating Women in Song and Verse
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick celebrates International Women's Day with music and poetry from Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Emily and Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Carol A...
Celebrating Spring!
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the arrival of Spring with poetry and music. www.BohemianBritain.com
Celebrating Love Songs and Poems.
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates some of the greatest love songs and poems on BohemianBritian.com and Resonance 104.4fm.
Literary London: Carl Chinn on Birmingham's Peaky Blinders
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On my radio show 'Literary London' on Resonance 104.4fm, I chat to Professor Carl Chinn about Birmingham, his writings and the REAL truth about the Pe...
Literary Birthdays - Virginia Wolf, JRR Tolkien and Monty Python!
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This time Nick Hennegan celebrates Literary birthdays in January. With Virgina Woolf, JRR Tolkien and Monty Python's Terry Jones' music and material....
Celebrate Burns Night with Nick Hennegan.
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan, a recent fan of Robert Burns since he wrote the Edinburgh (NOT London!) Literary Pub Crawl presents a celebration of Burns Night, the a...
New Year in London Literary Requests!
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating another New Year, Nick Hennegan plays your literary requests which include Beat Poets, Dylan Thomas and West End Musicals. www.BohemianB...
A wild year just done.. and a new one now to come! Maverick Theatre (and other!) News.
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A personal message from Artistic Director Nick Hennegan. "Thank you so much for your suppo...
Literary London: Christmas Classics with Nick Hennegan.
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final 'Literary London' show of 2025, Nick Hennegan presents two Christmas classics! Part of his OWN version of A Christmas Carol, preformed by...
'A Childs Christmas in Wales' - Dylan Thomas and Cerys Matthews.
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Nick Hennegan who celebrates the annual Westminster Abbey wreath-laying ceremony for Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas. He includes 'A Child's Christmas in...
Literary London - Lest We Forget
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan presents poetry and music from the War To End All Wars! www.BohemianBritain.com
Writers Birthdays: Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthdays this week of two of the greatest writers of the last century – Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath - in their own w...
Celebrating 150 Years of Artistic Legacy in London.
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poet Cahal Dallat talks to Nick Hennegan about a celebration of 150 years of a unique part of London. The area was built specifically to attract artis...
Exploring London's Lost Pubs: An Interview with Sam Cullen.
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to writer Sam Cullen about his latest book commemorating some of London's greatest lost pubs. www.BohemianBritain.com
Celebrating National Poetry in TWO countries. In a Pub!
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan is in a pub in Wales, celebrating national poetry of TWO countries. With contributions from T. Lew Jones, Dylan Thomas and John Keats. w...
Celebrating T.S. Eliot's Birthday: A Tribute
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of one of the most famous writers of all time - Thomas Stearns Eliot. With contributions from Y.B Yeats... a...
Stars at the Chiswick Book Festival!
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new season of 'Literary London' on Resonance 104.4fm starts - with the live video on www.BohemianBritain.com. Nick Hennegan talks to Torin Douglas...
Pretty Literary Pub of the Week!
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pre show. Pretty Literary Pub (Sort of!) The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre Bar, King Street, London W6 - before the crowds arrive. A great place to ...
Inside the mind of Aldous Huxley.
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan goes inside the mind of English writer Aldous Huxley, who discusses a range of profound topics, including the literary contributions of ...
The Genius of Ernest Hemingway - live!
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just back from the USA, Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of Ernest Hemingway, one its greatest writers, with some rarely heard recordings.
Orwell, Birthdays and requests
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of George Orwell and plays some requests - including one of his own songs! www.BohemianBritain.com
The Genius of W.B. Yeats - live from Dublin!
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan introduces a rare conversation with Irish writer and critic Ulick O'Connor on the worldwide influence of W.B. Yeats, live from Dublin's ...
Bohemian Bedford Park!
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to Irish poet Cahal Dallat about the 150th anniversary of the first Garden Suburb, and its influences, not just in London, but aro...
Catharine Wippell - New Writer, Performer and Film Producer.
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to Cathy about her new one-person theatre show, Cabaret For the End of the World, her new film production company, her start i...
The Genius of Bob Dylan
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Bob Dylan celebrates his 84th Birthday, Nick Hennegan looks at his background, legacy… and first appearances in London. www.BohemianBritain.com
Celebrating Dylan Thomas
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the Welsh Wizard on International Dylan Thomas Day. www.BohemianBritain.com
The Genius of Alan Bennett.
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As he begins preparations for another Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, Nick Hennegan celebrates the 'Beyond The Fringe' veteran and comedic genius...
Shakespeare's (alternative) Birthday!
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan takes an alternative look at William Shakespeare's work with offerings from the likes of Brian Ferry and Annie Lennox! www.BohemianBrita...
'A Ghost of A Chance' - Actors talk.
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brilliant actors Juliet Ibberson and Greg Snowden, reprising an award-winning show, A Ghost of A Chance, at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, L...
Celebrating International Women's Day
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates International Women's Day, with poems from Sylvia Plath and the Bronte sisters. www.BohemianBritain.com
Anthony Burgess and A Clockwork Orange
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates one of his favourite books and the birthday of its writer, Anthony Burgess - with a podcast from the foundation named after h...
Love... and fundraising!
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan's Literary London celebrates St Valentines Day with some Literary Requests... and news about Resonance 104.4fm's fundraising events. h...
Birthdays, Writers, their quotes and Soap Opera 'Crossroads'.
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates some famous writers birthdays and their quotes on writing... and celebrates a classic UK soap - Crossroads. www.BohemianBri...
Writer's Tips from J.R.R. Tolkien!
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday with some music, famous comments from his letters and tips for writers. Like most writers, even thi...
George Holmes and the 7 Dimensions. Demo Episode Two : The Billesley Common.
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George Holmes is a normal boy who lives on a council estate in Birmingham with his younger sister, Libby, his older brother, Andy and his Mom and Dad...
WORLD PREMIERE - EP 2 of George Holmes &the 7 Dimensions - and Xmas!
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrate this festive season with Nick Hennegan, the WORLD PREMIERE of GEORGE HOLMES AND THE 7 DIMENSIONS - and music from Cerys Matthews and Christm...
The Literary London Request Show.
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our occasional request show, where Nick Hennegan plays your requests... includes George Holmes and the 7 Dimensions, Romeo and Juliet, Wicked and Dyla...
Celebrating Literary Birthdays - J. G. Ballard and Margaret Atwood.
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the recent birthdays and famous works of writers who have had their books televised - J. G. Ballard and Margaret Atwood. www...
Dracula and George Homes WORLD PREMIERE!
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birth of Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula... and the 'birth' of his new Radio Science-Fiction Young Adult Drama, George Hol...
George Holmes and the 7 Dimensions
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George Holmes is a normal boy who lives on a council estate in Birmingham with his younger sister, Libby, his older brother, Andy and his Mom and Dad....
Celebrating Beatle John Lennon.
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Beatles were the biggest band in the world. Nick Hennegan celebrates the life - and death - of founder John Lennon. www.BohemianBritain.com
Wales, Dylan and the new Harry Potter!
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan is in Wales talking about a new Young Adult Fantasy, George Holmes and the 7 Dimensions, a lovely country, and Dylan Thomas. www.Bohemia...
The Edinburgh Fringe and Rabbie Burns
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan on his new Literary Pub Crawl at the Edinburgh Fringe and Scotland's greatest poet.
The Edinburgh Fringe Preview Show
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan looks forward to performing at the World's biggest open arts festival in Edinburgh on Resonance 104.4fm and BohemianBritain.com. There's...
Edinburgh Fringe research 1.0
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before his appearance with the First 30th Anniversary London Edinburgh Literary Pub Crawl at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, Nick Hennegan shares some...
Soccer Song Celebrations!
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With England in the final of the European Football Cup in Germany, Nick Hennegan looks back at 60 years of Football songs and the drama and excite...
Sir Ian McKellen, Hamlet, Prejudice and Pride and the Edinburgh Fringe.
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan looks back at previous Edinburgh fringes, music and programmes - and looks forward to this coming August. www.BohemianBritain.com
Celebrating George Orwell
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday, works, influences and inspirations of writer George Orwell. www.BohemianBritain.com
TV Stars Brilliant Naked Ambition!
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Prescott shot to fame at the age of 15 in the hit Channel Four TV show 'Skins'. After the show finished, she took regular jobs. She was wo...
Lest We Forget.
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan looks at Wales, Dylan Thomas, the Edinburgh Fringe, Skins on Channel Four, Winston Churchill and the 80th anniversary of D-Day! www.Bohe...
Literary Requests - Part One!
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan plays requests from his world-wide audience featuring poetry and music from Dylan Thomas, Cerys Mathews, Robb Williams and Romeo and Jul...
Celebrating Shakespeare's performers.
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating Shakespeare's Birthday, Nick Hennegan talks about his links to the Bard and features speeches by the classic actors Sir Laurence Olivier, ...
Celebrating Nick Hornby, Lord Byron and the Birth of Frankenstein!
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates a birthday and a deathday! Nick Hornby and Lord Byron! And plays music from the acclaimed theatre production, inspired by Byr...
Wordsworth, Heaney... and McCartney and Wings!
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates a number of creative events this week from William Wordsworth, Seamus Heaney... and Paul McCartney and Wings... www.Boh...
A Bohemian Briton - Actor and Producer Angela Bull.
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Currently starring in The Appraisal by Tim Marriott at Theatre At The Tabard in London, actor and producer Angela Bull talks to Nick Hennegan...
A Charles Dickens Pub Crawl and a 60's Seán O'Casey!
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates St Patrick's Day with a rare recording of writer Seán O'Casey talking about his work... and leads us on a London Pub Crawl a...
A Bohemian Briton - Actor and Writer Tim Marriott.
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Best known for his role in the hit TV sitcom, 'The Brittas Empire', Tim Marriott took seventeen years out of his acting career... to be a teacher. Now...
Celebrating World Poetry Day - USA style!
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates World Poetry Day with poems from the great American 'Beats' - Alan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. www.BohemianBritain.com
Celebrating Creative Women
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan plays music and poetry celebrating International Women's Day www.BohemianBritain.com
'Blue', the hard-hitting, award-winning Edinburgh hit comes to London.
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to writer and performer June Carryl about 'Blue' her award-winning star vehicle, premiering in London and dealing with race, Socie...
Celebrating W.H Auden and Four Weddings and a Funeral!
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of W.H Auden and Samual Pepys - and links to a certain British Film! www.BohemianBritain.com
A Bohemian Briton – Actor Jeffrey Holland.
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to veteran British Comedy Actor Jeffrey Holland about his new play 'After All These Years' and his time with British Comedy c...
Animal Farm, George Orwell and performer Guy Masterson
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guy Masterson talks to Nick Hennegan about life as an artist and performer. www.BohemianBritain.com
Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe.
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe - the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a...
J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov and E.M. Forster. Words of wisdom from the Birthday Boys!
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates recent birthdays and words of wisdom, advice for writers, inspired music and insightful quotes from world-famous talents, Tol...
Christmas and New Year requests - Part one.
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan takes your Christmas requests... which get very Welsh with Dylan Thomas and Cerys Matthews. www.BohemianBritain.com
Shane MacGowan - a tribute.
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan had the pleasure of meeting the Pogues frontman, Shane MacGowan - punk, traditionalist and perceived hell-raiser - who has passed away. ...
Dylan Thomas Live!
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the Dylan Thomas wreath-laying in Westminster Abbey by presenting the Welsh poet telling stories - live! www.BohemianBrit...
Dylan Thomas and other artists!
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Nick Hennegan celebrates the birth of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, with performances from Cerys Matthews and Guy Masterson. www.BohemianBritain...
Celebrating Oscar Wilde.
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates Oscar Wilde with one of his most famous poems and some of his most famous one-liners! www.BohemianBritain.com
Literary Requests
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time Nick Hennegan takes your requests, with new music and poetry and some classics too. www.BohemianBritain.com
Dylan Thomas and TS Eliot - landscapes
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan is in Wales! So this time 'Literary London', looks at the influence place has on poets, with readings from Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot....
The Chiswick Book Festival - Part 2
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan is at the George lV Pub in Chiswick, for the second part of the Book Festival's Local Authors party - where local scibes have just two m...
From the Edinburgh Fringe to the Chiswick Book Festival.
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After returning from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Nick Hennegan is in Chiswick, West London, for the Book Festival's Local Write...
Meet Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and their doubles!
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before its run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Nick Hennegan talks to Teryn Gray, Callum Pardoe and Jamie Patterson, the three actors from The Bir...
Hennegan and Hemmingway!
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the Birthday of American writer Ernest Hemingway, Nick Hennegan plays recordings of the man himself reading his own works. www.BohemianB...
Vintage Sherlock Holmes!
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan plays a rare 1940's recording of a Sherlock Holmes story. "A Scandal in Bohemia!' www.BohemianBritain.com
Celebrating Blooms-day!
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates BloomsDay with his first ever reading of Ulysses by James Joyce. BohemianBritain.com
The Kensington and Chelsea Festival.
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Home to Notting Hill, Grenfell Tower and some of the most expensive property in London, Nick Hennegan talks to Artistic Director Verena Cornwall ab...
Nick on the BBC!
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan, award-winning theatre producer, director and writer, talks to Mya Khan about his production of Two, by Jim Cartwright with Maverick The...
Resonance 104.4fm requests and a Charles Dickens short story.
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan plays literary requests from Dylan Thomas, The Choir of Man and a chilling short story commemorating the passing of Charles Dickens. ww...
The London Library Party... and Frankenstein!
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time, Nick Hennegan has been at the London Library Summer Party, but is taking The Birth of Frankenstein to the Edinburgh Fringe... and invites y...
Literary Chiswick and Walt Whitman
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan is in the Cross Keys Pub in Hammersmith, London W6 and looks at some of the famous local writers and celebrates American Walt Whitman's ...
Dylan Thomas, Cerys Matthews and Guy Masterson. Nick Goes Welsh!
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates International Dylan Thomas Day with readings from Cerys Matthews and Guy Masterson. www.BohemianBritain.com
Right Royal Requests!
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time Nick Hennegan plays requests and poems on his radio show, with celebrity choice from John Le Carre and the Literary Pub Of The Week, Ye Olde...
Potter, Bragg, Southwark and suicide.
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Literary London, Nick Hennegan's celebrity poem has a moving insight into Lord Melvyn Bragg's past. He also introduces his Literary Pub o...
Celebrating William Shakespeare.
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan looks at some facts - and otherwise - about William Shakespeare on his birthday weekend in April. Or was Shakespeare actually born in Ma...
Maverick Theatre and TWO in the Pub. Shot with Tradition..!
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apr 21 2023 Shots. Not big or clever. Although one per production should be okay! The TWO gang… Greg, Nick and Claire. It's not big, and it's not c...
Tabard Theatre's True Two Tour de force.
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🍷🍷🍷🍷 🍷 - 5 stars out of 5. Plus a packet of crisps! Two by Jim Cartwright - till 29th April, 2023. Nicholas Hennegan and The Maverick T...
Celebrating Charlotte Bronte.
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the birth on 21st April 1816 of Charlotte Bronte. We all know she was the author of Jane Eyre, but she also wrote poetry. Nic...
TWO - Actors down the Pub!
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to actors Claire Louise Amias, Greg Snowden and director Richard Woolnough live from Gerry's Club in Soho, about their forthcoming...
Literary (and Irish) requests!
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on 'Literary London', Nick Hennegan (who, as you will hear, has had his new phone stolen!) plays your requests, with music and poetry from T...
The History of a famous London Bohemian Pub - Part Two
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The second part of the 2015 interview when Nick Hennegan talks again to the late Sally Fiber about her time growing up in one of the most famous ...
The History of a London Bohemian Pub - Part One
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to the late Sally Fiber about her time growing up in one of the most famous literary pubs in London in the company of Walter Sicke...
Celebrating Jules Verne.
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates the genius of Jules Verne... "the father of Science fiction" with a reading of the first chapter of 'A Journey To The Centre ...
Songs inspired by Classic Books
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan celebrates songs inspired by literary classics, from Victor Hugo, Kate Bush, David Bowie and The Beatles!
Stage Ghosts and Haunted Theatres!
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hennegan talks to theatre worker and writer Nick Bromley about his life, books, work... and Theatre Ghosts! Nick has been a West End Company M...