This week, we wander into the beating heart of London — Covent Garden — where opera echoes off Victorian ironwork, and punk once growled beneath the colonnades. From flower girls to Blitz Kids, Handel to Bowie, Covent Garden is a stage that never goes dark.

Join JJ Creenan as he steps through the Piazza’s shifting light - past Inigo Jones’s “handsomest barn,” the echoes of Oscar Wilde’s trial, the ghost of Dryden’s quill, and the last blooms of the old flower market.

Here, cobblestones carry centuries. Every street corner hums with past lives: poets and performers, magistrates and misfits. This isn’t just a market square, it’s London’s theatre of memory.

Covent Garden doesn’t just preserve history. It performs it.

Exploring the Soul of London, One Street at a Time is written and narrated by JJ Creenan. New episodes every week. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to keep the stories flowing and the streets speaking.