To make walking tours of London

Stephen Fry has recorded two walking tours of London put together by the QI researchers.

The star, who hosted the comedy quiz show from its origin in 2003 until 2016, has lent his voice to two self-guided 75-minute tours of the capital, one for Westminster and one for the City and Bankside.

They are available on the VoiceMap app, which uses GPS to play the recordings at the relevant landmarks, each priced £11.49. Both walks are around 3km.

The City and Bankside tour begins at St Paul’s Cathedral, crosses London Bridge, past the Globe and Tate Modern, through Borough Market, and back across the Thames to finish at the London Stone on Cannon Street.

QI say:  ‘On our journey, you'll discover: Which London icon the Suffragettes nearly blew up with a wristwatch; How John Cleese pranked Michael Palin at the Globe; why Londoners used to take baths with geese; and the historic cannons hiding in plain sight on Bankside’s streets’

The other tour begins at Westminster Pier, passes the Houses of Parliament and through Parliament Square, ‘where a suffragette was once arrested for driving in circles with a megaphone’, along Whitehall, past 10 Downing Street and the Cenotaph, and into Trafalgar Square, finishing along the Thames Embankment by Cleopatra’s Needle.

This one features The secret rooms hiding under the Houses of Parliament; what King George V had hidden under his shirt; the spooky inspiration behind London’s iconic red telephone boxes and the heroines who motorbiked through bombings in the Blitz.

The tours are available here.

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Published: 29 May 2026