Image: Matt Brown London’s first bikes were advertised ... The machines really were the talk of the town. In April, a crowd of thousands gathered near Whitechapel Church (today’s Altab Ali ...

But developers of new-build apartment blocks in central London — where some homes have sold this year for more than £5,000 per sq ft, according to LonRes — dismiss talk of discounts.

This week on Talk of the Town, Dave Clark talks with Mickel London, founder of the Music Medicine Benefit Concert, and Felicie Standley, a therapist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.