NBC News – 24 April
This sounds a little crazy coming from New York on a Friday night, but if you ever get to London you’ll notice they really do go a mile a minute. It’s something about the bustle of the city and the pace of life and work there. But some are trying to stop that, trying at least to slow it down. Watch the report.

BBC Radio 4 – Today programme – 24 April
The Slow Down London Festival – a series of events aimed at slowing down the capital’s hectic lifestyle – is to begin with very slow walk across Waterloo Bridge during the afternoon rush hour. Harry Eyres, of the Financial Times, and the writer Toby Young, discuss if life is better in the slow lane. Listen to the discussion.

The Times – 14 April
With its impatient motorists, crowded Tube trains, barging pedestrians — and the stress of financial turmoil — London is perhaps ready for a break from the frenetic. The Go Slow movement is coming to the capital. Read More

The Times – leader, 14 April
How many people secretly long for life in the slow lane. How many look back with nostalgia to the days when you could linger over lunch, meander along country roads, pen long letters and lay down your briefing papers to think. Read more

BBC News (London) – 14 April
Organisers of a life-style initiative are hoping to teach Londoners new tips on how to take life at a much slower pace. Watch here.

BBC World Service – ‘World Have your Say’- 14 April
Do we all need to slow down? We ask because we’ve been watching a debate growing in many parts of the world about the speed at which we all live, and whether it’s good for us. Do you like living quickly, getting things done and staying in touch with as many people as possible? Do mobile phones, Blackberries, fast food and improved transport all improve things for you? Download podcast of a global phone-in prompted by Slow Down London.

The Guardian -15 April
Yesterday began like any other working day. So by 8.35am I was already late and already in a hurry, trotting at my signature ungainly speeded-up clatter along the pavement, my phone clamped beneath shoulder and chin, listening to voicemails as I counted out money in my palm. Read more.

The London Paper – 14 April
Londoners will be encouraged to relax and take it easy as part of a new campaign to get the capital to Go Slow. A 10-day festival to be launched this month will invite people to take a break from the capital’s hectic lifestyle. Read more.

BBC Online – 14 April
Londoners are being encouraged to slow down and improve their lives as part of a new event in the capital. Read more.

Other coverage has included:
Reuters TV, Associated Press TV, Chris Evans show on BBC Radio 2 (14 April), BBC Radio 4′s You & Yours (17 April), BBC London TV News (second report on 21 April), Daily Mirror (16 April), Daily Mail (17 April), Vanessa Feltz show on BBC London (14 April), The Evening Standard (21 April), LBC Jeni Barnett show (21 April), Time Out (23 April), TalkSport (14 April), Smooth Radio (14 April), Capital Gold (24 April), City Talk FM Liverpool (24 April), Washington Times (22 April), Toronto Globe & Mail (25 April) and media from Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand and more.

It seems that in this time of economic ‘slowdown’, this more positive message of cultural and personal slowing down is something people around the world want to hear!

Image: Forever Blowing Bubbles by Laura Babb.
(One of the winners from the Londonist’s Slow Exposure competition.)