Matthew Beaumont features in BBC Radio 4 programme on the city at night

The programme, originally broadcast on 27 April, is a special on the history and meaning of the urban stroller, and features a reading of Matthew's latest book Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso, 2015).

Speaking to the presenter Laurie Taylor, Matthew contends that the city idler isn't simply a by product of modernism, illuminating London's past via the nocturnal wanderings of poets, novelists and thinkers.

The episode can be listened back to on the BBC iPlayer (section begins at 06.08) or by downloading as a podcast.

Further links:

• Listen via UCL Urban Laboratory Soundcloud
• Cities After Hours II
• Cities Imaginaries