Ep 2 - Covent Garden - The London Beer Flood, a barrel-bursting thrill ride

Well here it is, chaps. The first full episode of Ladies Who London. And we are starting off big - with beer!

More specifically, the London Beer Flood. A tidal wave of your finest hot (yes hot) brown porter ale sloshing down the street towards you, and what are you going to do? We're going to find out exactly what the inhabitants of Covent Garden did in 1814 when a nearby brewery had a rupture in one of their huge barrels of fermenting ale.

Plus the wheel is back!

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