City guideLondon · Sat 31 – Sun 1 November
London this weekend: the London to Brighton car run and Agatha Christie
The Veteran Car Run from Hyde Park, Agatha Christie at the British Library, Hamlet Hail to the Thief at the Barbican, Duran Duran at The O2, Tottenham v Crystal Palace, wartime London at the IWM and Lenny’s Apizza.
The weekend at a glance
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Saturday · 31 October
Sunday · 1 November
All weekend · Saturday and Sunday
Saturday
31 October
Sat 19:45From £34
Theatre · Barbican
Hamlet Hail to the Thief at the Barbican
Shakespeare’s Hamlet meets Radiohead’s 2003 album Hail to the Thief, reworked by Thom Yorke and played live on stage by musicians and the cast. The Royal Shakespeare Company show sold out in Manchester and Stratford before this London run.
The first London night is Saturday at 19:45, 1 hour 40 minutes without an interval, and it is sold out. The run lasts until 23 January, with seats left for the evening of 7 November.
Sat 18:30
Concert · Greenwich Peninsula
Duran Duran’s Halloween show at The O2
Duran Duran end their UK arena tour with their Danse Macabre Halloween party, in London for the first time after Madison Square Garden and Manchester’s Co-op Live: hits, covers and rarely played songs, with fans asked to come in costume.
Doors open at 18:30 on Saturday; tickets bought through AXS go on your phone in The O2 app. The arena adds Halloween extras, among them a silent disco on its roof climb.
Sat 17:30
Sport · Tottenham
Tottenham v Crystal Palace at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur host Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday, a London derby between two clubs from the north and south of the city, in the 62,000-seat stadium that replaced White Hart Lane in 2019.
Kick-off is 17:30. Tickets are sold through the club’s site; the nearest stations are White Hart Lane and Northumberland Park, and the High Road is busy before the game, so allow extra time.
Sunday
1 November
Sun 6:53Free
Run · Hyde Park
The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run from Hyde Park
More than 400 cars built before 1905, the oldest an 1894 Benz, set off from Hyde Park for Brighton, 60 miles away, 130 years after the 1896 Emancipation Run that marked the end of the red flag rule.
The cars leave from 6:53 on Sunday, at sunrise; watching is free. On Saturday, 10:00 to 15:00, many line up on Pall Mall for the free St James’s Motoring Spectacle.
All weekend
Saturday and Sunday
Sat 9:30–17:00, Sun 11:00–17:00£25 at weekends
Exhibition · King’s Cross
Agatha Christie at the British Library
Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery opens on Friday: the Remington typewriter she bought in 1937, her teenage first short story, notes for Witness for the Prosecution and her 1917 pharmacy exam papers, set in rooms built as a country house, a wartime dispensary and an Orient Express carriage.
Saturday 9:30 to 17:00 and Sunday 11:00 to 17:00; weekends are peak price, £25. Weekday tickets start at £20, so a Monday visit costs less.
Sat and Sun, 10:00–18:00Free
Exhibition · Lambeth
Wartime London in art at the Imperial War Museum
Beauty and Destruction shows London in the Second World War through more than 45 paintings and drawings, by Edward Ardizzone, Evelyn Dunbar, Bernard Hailstone and others, beside photographs, film and recorded memories of bomb damage, loss and shortages.
It ends on Sunday. Entry is free, Saturday and Sunday 10:00 to 18:00; allow about an hour. Lambeth North is the nearest Tube, and there is a trail for children.
Sat 11:30–23:30, Sun 11:30–22:30
Restaurant · Covent Garden
Lenny’s Apizza, a new pizzeria in Covent Garden
Max Lewis’s Lenny’s, a pub residency in Finsbury Park that made its name with New Haven-style pizza, opens for good this week on Henrietta Street. Apizza, said “ah-beetz”, comes whole, crispy, chewy and charred, and never quite round.
Saturday 11:30 to 23:30 and Sunday 11:30 to 22:30, at 24 Henrietta Street. Tables can be booked through its site; it’s two minutes from the Covent Garden piazza.
Saturday
Sat 19:45
Hamlet Hail to the Thief at the Barbican
Shakespeare’s Hamlet meets Radiohead’s 2003 album Hail to the Thief, reworked by Thom Yorke and played live on stage by musicians and the cast. The Royal Shakespeare Company show sold out in Manchester and Stratford before this London run.
The first London night is Saturday at 19:45, 1 hour 40 minutes without an interval, and it is sold out. The run lasts until 23 January, with seats left for the evening of 7 November.
Barbican Centre Sat 18:30
Duran Duran’s Halloween show at The O2
Duran Duran end their UK arena tour with their Danse Macabre Halloween party, in London for the first time after Madison Square Garden and Manchester’s Co-op Live: hits, covers and rarely played songs, with fans asked to come in costume.
Doors open at 18:30 on Saturday; tickets bought through AXS go on your phone in The O2 app. The arena adds Halloween extras, among them a silent disco on its roof climb.
Sat 17:30
Tottenham v Crystal Palace at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur host Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday, a London derby between two clubs from the north and south of the city, in the 62,000-seat stadium that replaced White Hart Lane in 2019.
Kick-off is 17:30. Tickets are sold through the club’s site; the nearest stations are White Hart Lane and Northumberland Park, and the High Road is busy before the game, so allow extra time.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Sunday
Sun 6:53
The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run from Hyde Park
More than 400 cars built before 1905, the oldest an 1894 Benz, set off from Hyde Park for Brighton, 60 miles away, 130 years after the 1896 Emancipation Run that marked the end of the red flag rule.
The cars leave from 6:53 on Sunday, at sunrise; watching is free. On Saturday, 10:00 to 15:00, many line up on Pall Mall for the free St James’s Motoring Spectacle.
Hyde Park All weekend
Sat 9:30–17:00, Sun 11:00–17:00
Agatha Christie at the British Library
Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery opens on Friday: the Remington typewriter she bought in 1937, her teenage first short story, notes for Witness for the Prosecution and her 1917 pharmacy exam papers, set in rooms built as a country house, a wartime dispensary and an Orient Express carriage.
Saturday 9:30 to 17:00 and Sunday 11:00 to 17:00; weekends are peak price, £25. Weekday tickets start at £20, so a Monday visit costs less.
The British Library Sat and Sun, 10:00–18:00
Wartime London in art at the Imperial War Museum
Beauty and Destruction shows London in the Second World War through more than 45 paintings and drawings, by Edward Ardizzone, Evelyn Dunbar, Bernard Hailstone and others, beside photographs, film and recorded memories of bomb damage, loss and shortages.
It ends on Sunday. Entry is free, Saturday and Sunday 10:00 to 18:00; allow about an hour. Lambeth North is the nearest Tube, and there is a trail for children.
Imperial War Museum Sat 11:30–23:30, Sun 11:30–22:30
Lenny’s Apizza, a new pizzeria in Covent Garden
Max Lewis’s Lenny’s, a pub residency in Finsbury Park that made its name with New Haven-style pizza, opens for good this week on Henrietta Street. Apizza, said “ah-beetz”, comes whole, crispy, chewy and charred, and never quite round.
Saturday 11:30 to 23:30 and Sunday 11:30 to 22:30, at 24 Henrietta Street. Tables can be booked through its site; it’s two minutes from the Covent Garden piazza.
Lenny’s Apizza