Dan Jones, Suzannah Lipscomb and Rob Bell tell the glorious, and sometimes gory, story of the city's meteoric rise to power, starting with the first 1000 years.

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb is granted access to view artefacts from Henry VIII's pleasure palace. Dan Jones tells the story of Dick Whittington in full and discovers what 14th Century skeletons reveal about the Black Death.

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb investigates how London's West End became the playground of the wealthy elite, while Dan Jones follows in the footsteps of London's poor in the east of the city.

As the team reaches the 20th century, Dan Jones heads in search of the origins of London's vast suburbia, then goes underground to explore how Crossrail will propel the capital into the future.