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| Saturday, 10th April |
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| A virtual workshop where we will be sharing our top tips and tricks to get your growing herbs this spring. |
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| A beautiful country cottage style garden, designed by Sam Aldridge of Eden Restored. |
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| Sunday, 11th April |
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| Diverse garden dominated by a gigantic perry pear forming part of one of the East Dulwich orchards. |
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| A beautiful country cottage style garden, designed by Sam Aldridge of Eden Restored. |
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| Monday, 12th April |
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| City Guide Courtney Plank leads a virtual walk through the Barbican, looking at the very different churches of St Giles Cripplegate, St Botolph without Aldersgate and Jewin Welsh Church. |
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| Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. |
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| Tuesday, 13th April |
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| An update on the key trends and challenges at universities across London, exploring the new campus developments. |
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| Excavations within the Great Kitchen of Westminster Abbey. Lecture by Joe Brooks, Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd |
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| Landscape architect Kim Wilkie will trace this development through looking at some of the projects he has worked on. |
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| Join Naomi Oreskes as she explores what we need to consider when we want people to trust the science. |
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| Oliver Caroe, surveyor of St Paul’s Cathedral, discusses his descent from the Victorian and Edwardian architect W. D. Caroe. |
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| Wednesday, 14th April |
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| At the 550th anniversary Lester Hillman, explores the victors and vanquished, the dramas and the tragedies including the perspectives of City commentators like Shakespeare, writing a century later. |
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| This lecture pursues the gift of Gothic to later novelists, seeing how great Victorian novelists like Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens were entranced by the supernatural. |
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| Come and enjoy a talk on the eventful life and career of the late, great and quintessentially British film star David Niven. |
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| In this talk Dr Susan Kay-Williams will reveal some of The Royal School of Needlework's visitors from Queen Victoria herself to foreign heads of state. |
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| Join art director and movie poster designer, Art Sims, to discover how he captures the essence of a 90 minute feature film in one frame image to get a person excited to see it in the 10 second window that they are likely to see the printed image. |
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| Join Alison Weir as she discusses the fifth novel in her Six Tudor Queens series, Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen. |
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| Thursday, 15th April |
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| A notice that the Thames Barrier and the Barking Barrier will have their monthly test closures today. |
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| A talk about the challenges of deploying new technology and examine the balance between investing in new innovation and maintaining existing technology all while securing the trust of customers. |
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| See examples of historic repairs to documents and learn why it is important for conservators to study old repairs. |
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| Rebecca Earle traces the history of the potato from the Andes to everywhere, revealing the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of capitalism and why we have such an ambivalent relationship with government dietary guidelines. |
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| As we begin to think about renewing and rebuilding in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, how can the humanities help? |
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| Join Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos |
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| Joining us from Chicago, Lehrer speaks with Audrey Niffenegger about her memoir Golem Girl, an extraordinary story of tenacity and creativity. |
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| A talk will provide the audience with a fresh approach to designing and planting their gardens along with a host of tips on rejuvenating tired plants, lawns and patios. |
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| Friday, 16th April |
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| John Professor Murray Pittock as he discusses the battle and its legacy. |
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| In this talk Chaucer enthusiasts Euan Roger and Henry Eliot dig deeper into the true story of Chaucer’s life, discussing the people and places that inspired his work. |
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| Saturday, 17th April |
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| Five gardens in a housing estate only open to the public through the National Garden Scheme. |
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| Get a taste of the Royal College of Physicians fascinating 500-year history and award-winning architecture in a live virtual guided tour. |
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| Museums are full of the belongings of the dead! Come and see some remarkable objects and hear some incredible stories. |
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