Primrose Hill Podcast

Haunt of rock stars, actresses and their yoga instructors, Primrose Hill is a hamlet of exclusive boutiques, restaurants and gastro pubs. You'll find quaint bookshops, organic greengrocers, designer bathroom showrooms and specialist lingerie and perfume shops. You can also enjoy alfresco dining outside Lemonia, a popular Greek restaurant, and watch all the beautiful people go about their lovely lives.

Jim Davis discovers that the splendid buildings of ZSL London Zoo designed by John Nash were originally intended as a Royal palace and envies the gorillas their new £5million home with stupendous views over London.

He hears out about the sad life of poet Sylvia Plath, who lived in Primrose Hill at 3 Chalcot Square, and finds the house at 122 Regent's Park Road where Karl Marx's sidekick Frederick Engels lived.

For some of the best shopping, London views or celebrity watching in London, head for Primrose Hill.

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