This saga follows the River Thames as it flows through the heart of London - from the days of the Romans, through sixteen centuries to the Victorian engineers, all the way to the dockland development today Through the lives and adventures of memorable characters - a Roman coin forger an inn-keeper in Chaucer's day the actors in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and little Lucy, living by Dickens' muddy Thames - we watch London grow from its first beginnings, and become part of the pageant that flows on today