London Walks

London Walks is the oldest urban walking tour company on the planet, and their podcast translates that expertise into audio form with surprising effectiveness. The show covers London history street by street, and their Jack the Ripper content draws directly from decades of leading actual tours through Whitechapel. When a guide describes the corner where Mary Ann Nichols was found, they are standing on that corner regularly — and that physical familiarity with the geography comes through in the storytelling. The format is short and varied. Most episodes run 10-20 minutes, covering a single location, person, or event from London's past. The Ripper episodes sit alongside pieces on Dickens, the Blitz, Sherlock Holmes, and dozens of other London subjects. With over 300 episodes updated daily, it functions almost like a London history encyclopedia in podcast form. The guides rotate, each bringing their own style — some theatrical, some academic, all clearly passionate about the city. Rated 4.8 stars on Apple Podcasts, the show is particularly valuable for listeners planning a trip to London or wanting to understand the actual physical spaces where the Whitechapel murders happened. It is not a true crime podcast in the conventional sense, but it fills a gap that more traditional Ripper shows cannot: the lived, walked, breathed geography of 1888 London and how those streets have changed — or have not changed — in the century-plus since.