London Live Thursday

A digest of news and events from across London from the past few days.

Interviews on news and events from across London.

London's Heathrow Airport is home to the Animal Reception Centre, where they are equipped to deal with almost any species and see around 200,000 animals every year.

Umbria, the green heart of Italy, is the land that time and tourism forgot. Shaped by geography and politics, the region became a thriving model of creative self-sufficiency

Si King and Dave Myers are in Cornwall, discovering pubs that were at the centre of the smuggling industry back in the late 1700s, including the famous Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor

Finally after four years of renovation, the scaffolding around Big Ben is coming down

An insight into the world of high-end pawnbroking, going behind the scenes at a Surrey-based firm dealing in luxurious and exclusive objects

A desk made by furniture-maker John Townsend goes up for sale in New York, while two manuscripts from the Middle Ages are auctioned in London

A couple travel to Co Donegal for a five-star break for both them and their dogs. Plus, how a Great Dane bonded with a three-year-old girl who has epilepsy

A factory foreman goes into occupied territory to recover vital machinery. Fact-based Second World War comedy drama, starring Tommy Trinder

A Navy commander is horrified by the arrival of three incompetent shipmates. Comedy, starring Kenneth More, John Le Mesurier and Lloyd Nolan

Short visual tours exploring and revealing lesser known areas of London for locals and tourists. Narrated by Dewyne Lindsay

Michael and Charlie visit Rioja, Spain, starting at the winery Bodega Iniesta, owned by the father of the famous Spanish soccer star Andres Iniesta

The story of Picasso's The Weeping Woman, Australia's most expensive painting, which vanished from the National Gallery of Victoria. The only clues were a series of ransom notes

News weather events and the best of the capital's culture. Join us to explore life in London.

The chef demonstrates how to make the perfect chicken soup and gives the French classic bouillabaisse a British twist

Secrets to be found embedded beneath the pavements of Bloomsbury

Henry is concerned Matthew is spending more time playing pool than revising for his exams

Compilation of historical short films themed around love and marriage from Film London's archives

The true story of Beulah Mae Donald, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son

A hired gun reflects on his past experiences with a Mexican revolutionary now reduced to working as a rodeo clown. Spaghetti Western, starring Franco Nero and Tony Musante

A graduate student in 1960s New York tries to prove that his parents were unjustly executed on charges of being Soviet spies. Drama, starring Timothy Hutton and Mandy Patinkin

The true story of Beulah Mae Donald, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son

The Alpha crew makes contact with a planet inhabited by a group of robotic humans. Sci-fi adventure, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain and Billie Whitelaw

A former model brings in her collection of designer bags and jewellery, while Prestige boss James Constantinou attracts unwanted attention when he test-drives a client's Ferrari

A digest of news and events from across London from the past few days.