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So, I got a tour of London from someone with an IMDB page.

Emily Richard showed us some historic sites around London Bridge, like Francis Drake's ship and the Tower of London, and also the streets through which Dickens walked to visit his parents at a debtor's museum and the cathedral at which Shakespeare buried his younger brother. She would lead us into random pubs and cafes so that we could give our legs some rest, and then any time she would spot a waiter she would abruptly get up and we continued on with the walk outside, enduring the particularly London elements.

She would tell us random facts, and then pause for dramatic effect. Emily Richard is a complete ham, and absolutely brilliant. I saw more on this arbitrary tour of the influences on Shakespeare than I did on the fake tour of the London sights. From Mrs. Dickens' last words to Darwin's commentary on Shakespeare to remarkably relevant lines from MacBeth and Julius Caesar, she managed to quote directly and fluently, as though she had were witness to these men and women, both fictional and real.

Oh, and she is friends with Sir Ian McKellen.