Mind the Gap: The Official TfL Podcast

Mind the Gap: The Official TfL Podcast

Join host Tim Dunn on a journey to discover the amazing stories behind London’s iconic transport network. From the Tube to the Overground and beyond, Tim speaks to guests who have personal connections with the system that keeps London moving - from engineers to celebrities, and artists to footballers. Series one celebrates the 160th anniversary of the London Underground, and series two uncovers the significance of the new names for London’s Overground lines. An official podcast from Transport for London.

Episodes

Naming the Overground: The Weaver line

October 23, 2024 • 33 mins
Tim Dunn enters a world he admits he knows absolutely zero about: the world of weaving. Plus - did you know that the fabric on TfL seats, moquette, is also woven? Travelling on what will become the London Overground Weaver line to Bethnal Green station, Tim meets fine artist and maker Anna Ray, who has a special family connection to weaving and the incredible and dramatic history of textile production in east London that dates back...
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Naming the Overground: The Windrush line with Levi Roots and Arthur Torrington

October 1, 2024 • 31 mins
Levi Roots and Arthur Torrington are Tim's guides on the incredible and ongoing history and impact of the Windrush generation. Celebrity chef and entrepreneur Levi Roots' life has been shaped by his personal Windrush story, and he sits down on a London Overground platform on the new Windrush line to discuss it with host Tim Dunn. Levi speaks about what it was like to leave Jamaica and his grandmother to join the rest of his family,...
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Naming the Overground: The Suffragette line with Helen Pankhurst and Cally Beaton

September 6, 2024 • 38 mins
With guests Helen Pankhurst and Cally Beaton. Tim Dunn travels the entire length of the newly named Suffragette line to interview two incredible guests about the legacy of the Suffragette movement. At the new Barking Riverside station, Tim meets Helen Pankhurst. Helen is the great granddaughter of original Suffragette organiser Emmeline Pankhurst, and the granddaughter of East End Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst. She is also a scholar...
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Naming the Overground: The Liberty line

August 28, 2024 • 35 mins
Tim's journey across the new London Overground map continues with a dive into the weird and wonderful history of Havering and Romford on a truly unique part of the Overground: the three stops of the Liberty line. Why was that name chosen? What made Havering so special hundreds of years ago? What is a royal liberty? And are some of these places really haunted? Find out as we hear from some passionate and fascinating local history ex...
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Naming the Overground: The Lioness line with Leah Williamson and Chloe Kelly

July 31, 2024 • 32 mins
England football heroes Leah Williamson and Chloe Kelly join Tim Dunn on the new episode - two years since they won the Euros on home soil. Tim travels to St George's Park to sit down with the Lionesses to hear their thoughts about the newly named Lioness line on the London Overground - and what that represents for the women's game. They also talk about their impact on football and beyond, selling out Wembley Stadium, and how they’...
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Naming the Overground: The Mildmay line

July 16, 2024 • 26 mins
Tim Dunn starts his journey across the London Overground map to uncover the incredible stories behind the six new line names. In this first episode, Tim travels to a hospital that Princess Diana visited 17 time: the Mildmay, a small but crucial charitable NHS hospital with a long history of helping Londoners in need, from the cholera outbreak in 1866 to supporting and treating patients affected by HIV and AIDS. The Mildmay line jou...
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Series 2 Trailer: Naming London's Overground lines

July 9, 2024 • 1 min
Coming soon, the brand new series of Mind the Gap, the Official TfL Podcast. Join Tim Dunn for another fascinating look at the stories behind London's transport network. This time around, Tim takes a journey across the six lines of the London Overground, to discover the new names each line has been given, and why they're so significant for London and the world. Each episode focusses on one of the new identities, which are Mildmay, ...
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Rylan Home for Christmas

December 22, 2023 • 28 mins
Join TV Presenter and Broadcaster Rylan on the ultimate Christmas commute! Tim Dunn gets special permission to take Rylan on a ride in the driver’s cab on a Central line Train, all the way from Oxford Circus to Epping. You may not know, but Rylan is a self-confessed Tube obsessive, and cannot hold back his excitement. He tells Tim about how he fell in love with the Tube in his childhood, the Tube station he's built in his garage, w...
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Connecting People and Places through London’s beating heart

December 18, 2023 • 29 mins
Like the Tube itself, Amy Lamé is a London icon and legend - and she asks Tim to meet her at one of London’s busiest stations for nightlife, Tottenham Court Road, to talk about her role with the Mayor of London as ‘Night Czar’. What does that mean - and how important has the night tube been for London’s communities and businesses, including Amy’s famous club nights? For 160 years, the London Underground has been connecting people a...
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Hidden Heroes and Ingenious Innovations that keep London moving

December 18, 2023 • 29 mins
All aboard the newly refurbished Central line trains! Join Tim Dunn as he catches an exclusive first-ever ride to see the results of the biggest upgrade programme in the Tube’s history. Joining him is special guest Paul Marchant, the man behind the Central line’s new seating fabric and fascinating patterns (know as the moquette). That’s just one small part of an enormous programme of investment and upgrades on the Central line, tha...
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Iconic Design and Amazing Architecture deep under London's streets

December 18, 2023 • 33 mins
In this first episode, Tim Dunn navigates the many tunnels and architectural wonders of Bank station during a chat with the ‘Tubemapper’ Luke Agbaimoni, the man whose passion for taking photos on the Underground is propelling him to capture images of every station on the Tube map. After a quick trip on the Central line to Shepherd’s Bush station, Tim then sits down with world famous designer Wayne Hemingway, who created the London ...
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Introducing...Mind The Gap

December 17, 2023 • 1 min
Take an incredible journey Underground with host Tim Dunn, as he explores the amazing world of the London Tube, to celebrate its 160th Anniversary. Travelling to stations across the capital, Tim meets guests including Rylan Clark, Amy Lamé, Wayne Hemingway and designers and engineers from TfL, who reveal the passion, love, and incredible stories behind the world’s oldest underground network
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