Film4 Summer Screen Returns To Somerset House

Film4 Summer Screen returns to the iconic courtyard at Somerset House in London from 6–19 August for 14 nights of open-air film screenings.

Ticket holders can enjoy a film under the stars with a drink and picnic, with live DJ sets and special-guest introductions to keep everyone busy throughout the night. The titles planned for this year include British cult classic Withnail and I, starring Richard E. Grant; Spike Lee’s incendiary 1980s masterpiece Do the Right Thing; the Quentin Tarantino imagined road-movie True Romance; and romantic-comedy Roman Holiday, which introduced the world to Audrey Hepburn.

These outdoor viewings are incredible popular, so if interested, head over to the Somerset House website and order today!

Somerset House - Film4 Summer Screen

Tina Engstrom

On a recent education and training session, we met in Piccadilly Circus near the Shaftesbury Memorial and the statue of Eros. Fellow Blue Badge Tourist Guide Martin Harvey who led the session started off by talking about "meetings", apparently we were in the ideal meeting place! The only challenge for us initially, was that he was talking in another language – "Polori". Once translated, we understood it was the gay version of Cockney Rhyming slang which facilitated secret communications. So we started on the route from Piccadilly through Soho to Chinatown.