🫣💎 New bus goes on LAND & WATER! How to find PEACE, CALM and HAPPINESS. How to TUBE SURF with comedian Tom Ward. Plus Shepherds Bush Empire, The Comedy Store, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Hidden Gem: How to find PEACE and CALM. Bus that goes on land AND WATER. And how to TUBE SURF with comedian Tom Ward.

Plus Shepherds Bush Empire and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.

Includes parody tracks which can only be found on this episode and nowhere else!

This is a Hidden Gem (🫣💎 ) episode of Best of London including an interesting section from a previous full length episode.

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For the full episode this is taken from click below:

⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/1chrFEeLNbWYL3W8J7UZjo?si=xf2zhmuwTtK7IPNgth4JWw⁠

You can listen to the FULL episode which this HIDDEN GEM is taken from by going to the previous edition of BEST OF LONDON. In which the guest tells us their favourite places to go and things to do in London.

My guest this week is Tom Ward, one of the UK’s funniest comedians. He performed a storming set on BBC’s LIVE AT THE APOLLO and he’s been on TV shows like QI and ROAST BATTLE. He hosts a show called Abandoned Engineering where they visit breathtaking places all over the world like Abandoned Olympic Villages, Huge Space Rocket Facilities, Ghost Towns and Jungle Cities. Time Out said he has fine jokes and star presence and Best of London gives him 5 stars and says he is a hilarious comedian, he’s wonderful, warm, funny, loveable and relatable.

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We're kicking off the post-summer run with a Hidden Gems edition, digging into the archives with comedian Tom Ward

In this episode:

• Vintage Venues & Indie Rock: Why Shepherd's Bush Empire holds the crown for old London vibes, plus Tom's love for Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.

• The Windsor Water Vans: Duck Tours are relaunching. We break down the chaotic joy of driving a duck bus straight into a river.

• Victoria Line Surfing: The high-stakes, zero-handhold underground sport we're trying to pioneer.

• Burner Phones & Brain Space: Tom's radical method for ditching the smartphone, embracing the grayscale screen, and actually talking to strangers.

• Exclusive Audio: Stick around until the very end for a brand-new parody track you won't hear anywhere else.

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For the full episode this is taken from click below:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1chrFEeLNbWYL3W8J7UZjo?si=xf2zhmuwTtK7IPNgth4JWw