Sounds on the Underground

About this tour

A spectral re-imagining of the Tube map. This audio tour unearths the Underground’s most persistent ghosts — real, imagined, and symbolic — and asks why cities refuse to let their dead rest.

What you'll hear

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   Stop 1 — Willaim Teriss: The Actor Who Never Left The Stage

   At Covent Garden, a Victorian leading man returns for an encore — his ghost a mirror of London’s endless need to perform itself. ⏯️ Covent Garden Station — Piccadilly Line, Northbound.

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   Stop 2 — The Woman Who Cries For The Living

   King’s Cross’s spectral passenger embodies modern grief — a ghost born of fire, memory, and the city’s hard-won conscience after disaster. ⏯️ King’s Cross St Pancras — Piccadilly Line → Circle Line, Eastbound.

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   Stop 3 — Anne Naylor: The Apprentice Who Wouldn't Stay Silent

   Farringdon’s “screaming spectre” recalls London’s exploited children — her haunting a protest against the city’s centuries of invisible labour. ⏯️ Circle Line, Eastbound

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   Stop 4 — The Workman Beneath the Glass Towers

   At Liverpool Street, a ghostly engineer walks the tunnels above Bedlam’s graves — progress built on the bones of the forgotten. ⏯️ Circle Line, Eastbound

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   Stop 5 — The City That Buries Its Dead

   Aldgate’s plague-pit phantom reminds London of its oldest habit: bury, rebuild, and pretend survival is the same as healing. ⏯️ Circle Line, Eastbound

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   Stop 6 — Page's Walk and the Ghosts Who Keep the Trains Running

   In the disused tunnels of Embankment, hauntings blur with hidden labour — London’s unseen night-workers who maintain the city while it sleeps. ⏯️ Embankment Station — Circle Line → Bakerloo Line, Northbound

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   Stop 7 — The Reflection In The Window

   The Bakerloo Line’s phantom passenger — a mirrored companion for London’s lonely commuters — turns isolation itself into a haunting. ⏯️ Oxford Circus — Bakerloo Line → Exit