The Tudor Uber Driver Who Floated Tudor London

Before bridges, before coaches, before passable roads, if you needed to get anywhere in Tudor London you needed him. The Thames waterman was licensed, badged, opinionated, and completely indispensable. In this episode we spend 24 hours on the river: shooting London Bridge, ferrying Shakespeare's audience to the South Bank, and watching the coaches arrive and take everything away. Plus: John Taylor, the Water Poet, who was furious about all of it and wrote pamphlets to prove it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Tudor Uber Driver Who Floated Tudor London is an episode from Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors by Heather Teysko.

This episode is 14:56 long.

This episode was published on Apr 25, 2026.

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