Introducing Mind The Gap, TfL’s official podcast! Host Tim Dunn chats to a range of fascinating guests and uncovers incredible stories behind London’s transport network. 💙
Season one celebrates the amazing world of the London Underground, to celebrate the 160th year of the Tube. Guests include Rylan, Amy Lamé, and Wayne Hemingway to name a few. He also meets some of the hidden talents of TfL who are key to keeping London moving.
Season two, coming soon, sees Tim on a mission to travel across the capital. He takes a deep dive into each of the new names for London Overground’s six lines. He’s joined by some very special guests to find out the significance of the line names. Hear from experts and those with personal connections to the legacies of the Windrush generation, the Suffragettes, and the Liberty of the London borough of Havering. Expect powerful stories and some big name appearances.
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Search for Mind The Gap on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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Season 1, Episode 4: Rylan Home for Christmas
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. They travel all the way from Oxford Circus to Epping. You may not know, but Rylan is a self-confessed Tube obsessive, and can’t hold back his excitement. 🤩
Rylan tells Tim about how he fell in love with the Tube in his childhood and how he’s built a Tube station in his garage! They talk about what the London Underground means to him and how it’s shaped his life. Rylan and Tim get a usually restricted, and incredible, view of the tunnels from the driver’s cab at the back of the train – and try not to push any buttons.
The festive adventure, and Rylan’s dream trip, continues when the pair board a vintage Routemaster bus. This takes them to a magical railway – and a very special Christmas steam train.
Season 1, Episode 3: Connecting People and Places through London’s beating heart
Like the Tube itself, Amy Lamé is a London icon and legend! ✨
She asks Tim to meet her at one of London’s busiest stations for nightlife, Tottenham Court Road. They 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 and places in so many ways, but a shared love for everything about the system has created a community in itself.
Tim heads west on the Piccadilly line to meet his old friend, and one of the internet’s best-known Tube enthusiasts, video producer Geoff Marshall. Tim and Geoff chat about the joys, delights and friendships that the London Underground can bring. They also talk about how Geoff’s relationship with the Tube grew from an old London Atlas that was collected by his grandfather.
Season 1, Episode 2: Hidden Heroes and Ingenious Innovations that keep London moving
All aboard the newly refurbished Central line trains! 🚇
Tim Dunn catches an exclusive first-ever ride to see the results of the biggest upgrade 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. These improvements have seen years of work and planning go into new engines, CCTV, and multiple system upgrades.
Tim then takes you behind-the-scenes at the world-leading Railway Engineering Workshop in Acton. He meets Aaron, Becky and Robbie – just some of the dedicated and highly skilled staff who work on maintaining, upgrading and repairing Tube trains all year round, on an incredible scale.
Season 1, Episode 1: Iconic Design and Amazing Architecture deep under London’s streets
In this first episode, Tim Dunn navigates the many tunnels and architectural wonders of Bank station. He chats with the ‘Tubemapper’ Luke Agbaimoni. Luke’s 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 sits down with world famous designer Wayne Hemingway who created the London Underground staff uniforms. Wayne discusses his love of incredible design on the Tube.
It’s then back into the heart of London for a tour of the iconic Piccadilly Circus station. He joins TfL’s Ann Gavaghan, who talks about the architectural heritage and hidden secrets of the 272 stations across the London Underground. She also spills the features you might want to look out for on your next journey.
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