LONDON, England (CNN)-- As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday ... on the childhood fantasy of digging a hole to the opposite ...

Now it’s a favorite digging spot for Brooker ... Oxford University came into being on the river’s north bank. Conspirators gathered at Henley-on-Thames (now the site of the famous regatta ...

in the podcast she reveals five objects found on the Thames foreshore that tell a story about the river and the people ... their English name was a snide dig at a 17th-Century Italian cardinal ...