

London
London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd.
Seasons
Cast (21)

Peter Ackroyd
Himself - Presenter

Jim Carter
Henry Fielding

Derek Jacobi
Tacitus

Michael Feast
Christopher Wren

Alex Jennings
Stephen Spender

Tom Hollander
T.S. Eliot

Chris Langham
Ned Ward

Philip Jackson
Samuel Pepys

Toby Stephens
Casanova

Ronan Vibert
Joseph Conrad

John Woodvine
Henry Moore

Jack Shepherd
Thomas de Quincey

Don Warrington
Ignatius Sancho

Timothy West
Henry Mayhew

Danielle Rees
Charlie Meyer

John Simm
Friedrich Engels

Harriet Walter
Virginia Woolf

Anton Lesser
Charles Dickens

Philip Madoc
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Tim Pigott-Smith
John Evelyn

Amanda Root
Charlotte Bronte
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