22. The Great Fire: London Rises From The Ashes (Ep 2)

Journey Through Time

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4.3 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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How did the flames engulf the stone building of St Paul’s Cathedral, jump over the River Fleet, and reach 1,700 degrees celsius? After four days, how was this monstrous fire finally put out? What scars remain on the modern capital city from this fire nearly 400 years ago? Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga to discuss the damage inflicted by The Great Fire of London. Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	The conflagration was so universal and the people so astonished that from the beginning,
0:53.7	they hardly stirred to quench it.
0:56.6	There was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation and running about like distracted
1:02.8	creatures. Such a strange consternation there was upon them. All the sky were of a fiery aspect,
1:10.4	like the top of a burning oven.
1:13.4	Those words come from the diary of the English writer John Evelyn.
1:17.8	They are his entry from Monday the 3rd of September, 1666,
1:22.2	the second day of the Great Fire of London.
1:25.0	I'm Sarah Churchwell.
1:26.1	Welcome to Journey Through Time.
1:28.8	And I'm David Ola Shoga. And welcome to this second episode on The Great Fire of London. I'm Sarah Churchwell. Welcome to Journey Through Time. And I'm David Olusiogar.
1:32.4	And welcome to this second episode on the Great Fire of London.
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