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Your weekly expedition to the heart of modern life through buildings, design, gardens and food. Separate stories for bite-size listening.

Episode Date
Can you call a fake steak a 'steak'?
Apr 27, 2024
Do we have a 'right to repair' our buildings?
Apr 27, 2024
A tour of the Murdoch family farm with Paul Bangay
Apr 27, 2024
We love cities - how can we future proof them?
Apr 20, 2024
A love letter to Queensland’s coast
Apr 20, 2024
Last Supper: Hetty Lui McKinnon
Apr 20, 2024
Object of Desire — Kirstie Clements’ Chanel jacket
Apr 13, 2024
Saudi Arabia’s The Line: ‘Revolution in urban living’ or disaster waiting to happen?
Apr 13, 2024
Colin Bisset’s Iconic Designs — Architectural megalomania
Apr 13, 2024
Food influencers’ appetite for brand endorsements
Apr 13, 2024
Against the lawn-industrial complex
Apr 05, 2024
Redesigning the nature strip
Apr 05, 2024
Object of Desire – Besha Rodell’s vintage glassware
Apr 05, 2024
Annie Smithers Kitchen Rudimental — cooks Elizabeth David – Gratin Dauphinois
Apr 05, 2024
A tour of Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
Mar 29, 2024
Object of Desire: Soon-Tzu Speehley’s Clifton Brick
Mar 29, 2024
The lost art of dress: a history of the dress doctors who once made America stylish
Mar 29, 2024
Last Supper: Jo Barrett's Grilled haloumi with pickled lemon and broad beans (on their death bed)
Mar 22, 2024
Object of Desire: Jonathan Green’s grandfather's Gillette double bladed travelling razor
Mar 22, 2024
The alt right diet, meat and masculinity
Mar 22, 2024
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — A design history of the bicycle
Mar 15, 2024
The road divided: a contested space
Mar 15, 2024
Paris’ bike-centric new climate plan
Mar 15, 2024
Learning to ride, penny farthing style
Mar 15, 2024
Sense of Place: Nam Le, Iowa City and Provincetown
Mar 08, 2024
A tour of internationally acclaimed designer, Bethan Laura Wood's Kaleidoscope-o-rama
Mar 08, 2024
Annie Smithers cooks Elizabeth David – Courgettes à la grecque
Mar 08, 2024
That's so aesthetic: the accelerating churn of style trends
Mar 01, 2024
My delicious is your disgusting: how class and culture shape our tastes
Mar 01, 2024
Solarpunk: how to design a Utopian future
Mar 01, 2024
Last Supper: Guy Grossi's Fettuccine with Calamari Ragu
Feb 23, 2024
Besha Rodell predicts food trends for 2024
Feb 23, 2024
Sense of Place: Nathan Thrall, Jerusalem
Feb 23, 2024
Neutraface: the gentrification font?
Feb 16, 2024
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Feb 16, 2024
Grand designs: transforming the idea of home
Feb 16, 2024
Kevin McCloud’s home truths
Feb 09, 2024
Sense of Place: Yanis Varoufakis, a borderless earth
Feb 09, 2024
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — Annie Smithers cooks Elizabeth David
Feb 09, 2024
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — the history of the comfortable chair
Feb 02, 2024
Comfort food and anxiety: a psychoanalytic account of appetite under capitalism
Feb 02, 2024
COVID-core: the fate of post pandemic comfort wear
Feb 02, 2024
Sense of Place: Lucy Treloar, Terowie, South Australia
Jan 26, 2024
Food scholar Bee Wilson on loss, grief and cooking.
Jan 26, 2024
Last Supper: Dan Hunter’s roast chicken and black truffle sandwich
Jan 26, 2024
The end of logging and the future of Victoria's native forests
Jan 19, 2024
The wilderness myth
Jan 19, 2024
Artificial Islands - Owen Hatherley's adventures in the dominions
Jan 19, 2024
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — knives
Jan 12, 2024
The greigification of interiors and aesthetic homogeneity in the age of commodified housing
Jan 12, 2024
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Corduroy
Jan 12, 2024
Stealth wealth: fashion trend, online meme or symptom of a deeper cultural shift?
Jan 12, 2024
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the cruise ship
Jan 05, 2024
One woman's reluctant journey on Gwyneth Paltrow's wellness cruise
Jan 05, 2024
Cruises, cargo and capital - the shady world of global shipping
Jan 05, 2024
Wendy's, franchise-chain capitalism and the remnants of Australian placeful life
Dec 29, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Norma Merrick Sklarek
Dec 29, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — strawberry sorbet
Dec 29, 2023
Who's afraid of a 15-minute city?
Dec 29, 2023
Iconic Designs: The match
Dec 22, 2023
The everlasting meal or how to frittata-ise anything
Dec 22, 2023
The fetishisation of decay
Dec 22, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — 12 icons of Christmas
Dec 15, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — In search of a cold Christmas
Dec 15, 2023
In search of the Australian Christmas tree
Dec 15, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — In search of a seasonally-appropriate Christmas menu
Dec 15, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The dishwasher
Dec 08, 2023
Rachel Roddy on pasta, Rome and being an English food writer in Italy
Dec 08, 2023
Urban planning in Reykjavik
Dec 08, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Yoyogi gymnasium
Dec 01, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — how to use broad bean leaves
Dec 01, 2023
Fashion in the age of AIDS
Dec 01, 2023
Campus: building modern Australian universities
Dec 01, 2023
A design history of the sneaker
Nov 24, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — A life in garden design
Nov 24, 2023
Garry Emery: the legacy of an iconic designer
Nov 24, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — The mason jar
Nov 17, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — A kitchen garden tour
Nov 17, 2023
Planetary redesign: a speculative architect’s vision of the future
Nov 17, 2023
Ecological protection through recognition of cultural significance
Nov 17, 2023
Redefining Australian food
Nov 10, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Thorncrown Chapel
Nov 10, 2023
How pollen is used to solve crimes
Nov 10, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: how to chop onions
Nov 03, 2023
A conversation with Carlos Moreno, creator of the 15 minute city
Nov 03, 2023
Menu uniformity: symptom of cultural crisis?
Nov 03, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Ebenezer Howard
Nov 03, 2023
Iconic Designs: Glass House
Oct 27, 2023
Stephanie Alexander on the virtues of vegetables, simplicity and culinary curiosity.
Oct 27, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — The garden in spring
Oct 27, 2023
Conservation or intervention – deepening fault lines and Australia’s native forests.
Oct 27, 2023
Reinier de Graaf on the new language of building
Oct 20, 2023
The life and legacy of Clarence Chai
Oct 20, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the monocle
Oct 20, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — A recipe for asparagus soup
Oct 20, 2023
Assembling an industrial suburb for Canberra
Oct 13, 2023
Lune's Kate Reid — from the racetrack to the boulangerie
Oct 13, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental: A Buxus party
Oct 13, 2023
Colin Bisset’s Iconic Designs: The (disappearing) grille
Oct 13, 2023
Peter Donegan’s favourite tree
Oct 06, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — The perfume atomiser
Oct 06, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — Asparagus
Oct 06, 2023
Why do todays domestic interiors mimic 4 star hotels and what might Siegfried Kracauer have said about it?
Oct 06, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — Advice on soil, drainage and other gardening stumbling blocks
Sep 29, 2023
The alt right diet, meat and masculinity
Sep 29, 2023
Looking to a prefab past to solve the housing crisis
Sep 29, 2023
The architecture of therapy
Sep 22, 2023
Iconic Designs: The Green School, Bali
Sep 22, 2023
Is the future of the city childless?
Sep 22, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — truffles
Sep 22, 2023
What does 'plant-based' actually mean?
Sep 08, 2023
'We can do better than mulch': an urban tree recovery initiative
Sep 08, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: food memories
Sep 08, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — The cog railway
Sep 08, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — The Norwegian sweater
Sep 01, 2023
What's for dinner? The implications of our food choices
Sep 01, 2023
Wendy's, franchise-chain capitalism and the remnants of Australian placeful life
Sep 01, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — Late winter woodland
Sep 01, 2023
Demystifying the national dish
Aug 25, 2023
Iconic Designs: the retractable tape measure
Aug 25, 2023
Inside the National Herbarium of Victoria with Tim Entwisle
Aug 25, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The magic wand
Aug 18, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: the five mother sauces
Aug 18, 2023
Bill Lucas, the architect utopian
Aug 18, 2023
George Monbiot's culinary regenesis
Aug 18, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — The Hoover Dam
Aug 11, 2023
The decline of the Australian fashion industry
Aug 11, 2023
Rewilding the famous UK garden, Great Dixter
Aug 11, 2023
Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and The Idea of Acoustic Space
Aug 11, 2023
Dam removal and river restoration
Aug 04, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — food and memory
Aug 04, 2023
Food scene: Sydney vs Melbourne
Aug 04, 2023
One woman's reluctant journey on Gwyneth Paltrow's wellness cruise
Jul 28, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the cruise ship
Jul 28, 2023
Cruises, cargo and capital - the shady world of global shipping
Jul 28, 2023
The greigification of interiors and aesthetic homogeneity in the age of commodified housing
Jul 21, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Corduroy
Jul 21, 2023
Stealth wealth: fashion trend, online meme or symptom of a deeper cultural shift?
Jul 21, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — finding hope in the winter garden
Jul 21, 2023
Restoring Australia's architectural treasures
Jul 14, 2023
Reimagining flood plain development with geography at heart
Jul 14, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — A tour of the NGV kitchen
Jul 14, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Mercedes ‘Gullwing’
Jul 14, 2023
Artificial Islands - Owen Hatherley's adventures in the dominions
Jul 07, 2023
The wilderness myth
Jul 07, 2023
The end of logging and the future of Victoria's native forests
Jul 07, 2023
Iconic Designs: The match
Jun 30, 2023
The everlasting meal or how to frittata-ise anything
Jun 30, 2023
The fetishisation of decay
Jun 30, 2023
A cultural history of the gay bar
Jun 23, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — Annie Smithers at the NGV
Jun 23, 2023
Material World - A story of design, technology, material and culture
Jun 23, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Reliant Regal
Jun 23, 2023
Upgrading earthquake prone buildings
Jun 16, 2023
Dell Eco Reef - where art and coastal defence meet
Jun 16, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — finding inspiration in garden books
Jun 16, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: César Pelli
Jun 16, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: La Tourette convent
Jun 09, 2023
The true cost of electric vehicles
Jun 09, 2023
The psychogeography of everyday life
Jun 09, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — Chou farci
Jun 09, 2023
Medieval diets, lamprey and the dangers of over-indulging in parasitic fish
Jun 02, 2023
Revival projects: repurposing salvaged building materials
Jun 02, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Mole Antonelliana
Jun 02, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — Chestnuts
May 26, 2023
Rethinking interior design
May 26, 2023
Autumn in the botanic gardens
May 26, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: The Pedal Bin
May 26, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Bugatti
May 19, 2023
Islas - A celebration of tropical cooking
May 19, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — a paean to autumn
May 19, 2023
Gaetano Pesce - Radical optimist
May 19, 2023
Annie Smithers Conquers the Lemon Tart
May 12, 2023
Personal But Not Private- An exploration of home in public housing
May 12, 2023
ROSSO 88 - a homage to 1980s Australiana
May 12, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the jumpsuit
May 12, 2023
Can Australia Eat Less Meat? 
May 05, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Kitsch
May 05, 2023
Blak Design Matters
May 05, 2023
Afghan designers sewing new lives in Australia after fleeing the Taliban
May 05, 2023
How to better plan open plan environments for school and work
Apr 28, 2023
The ethics and etiquette of tipping in the gig economy
Apr 28, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — The Fine Art of the Tart
Apr 28, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — The aqueduct
Apr 28, 2023
Design and solidarity in a crisis
Apr 21, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — windsor chair
Apr 21, 2023
What do popular recipes say about us?
Apr 21, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — outdoor spaces  
Apr 21, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — The Rotary Clothes Hoist
Apr 14, 2023
Mary Quant — fashion revolutionary
Apr 14, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — kitchen garden part two
Apr 14, 2023
A guide to enjoying Lakemba’s Ramadan nights market...respectfully
Apr 14, 2023
Food, faith, and more food — the easter break’s culinary rituals
Apr 07, 2023
Australia’s first purpose-built office for the deaf
Apr 07, 2023
Colin Bisset’s Iconic Designs – flatpack refugee housing
Apr 07, 2023
Shelter in a time of crisis
Apr 07, 2023
Colin Bisset’s Iconic Designs – the monkey bike
Mar 31, 2023
Annie Smithers’ Garden Rudimental — How to nurture a kitchen garden
Mar 31, 2023
Pull up to the (very large) bumper
Mar 31, 2023
A dispatch from the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
Mar 31, 2023
Understanding Australia's 'Filipino food revolution'
Mar 24, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — the world's most amazing gardens
Mar 24, 2023
Introducing Perth's first design week
Mar 24, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Francisco Mañosa
Mar 24, 2023
Julia Busutill Nishimura's visions of Italy
Mar 17, 2023
What do we mean by embodied carbon?
Mar 17, 2023
Goodbye to summer in the gardens
Mar 17, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — teflon
Mar 17, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — knives
Mar 10, 2023
Writing more women into architecture
Mar 10, 2023
Stories of spatial hope
Mar 10, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — coadestone
Mar 10, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Venetian glass
Mar 03, 2023
Rewarding architecture with social impact
Mar 03, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — inspiration
Mar 03, 2023
Can fashion ever really be sustainable?
Mar 03, 2023
Queering the architectural canon
Feb 24, 2023
Simona Castricum's visions of a gender non-conforming city
Feb 24, 2023
Designing Australia's first purpose-built LGBTQIA+ home
Feb 24, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Design — the pride flag(s)
Feb 24, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Norma Merrick Sklarek
Feb 17, 2023
Who's afraid of a 15-minute city?
Feb 17, 2023
Finding shelter in Türkiye and Syria
Feb 17, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — strawberry sorbet
Feb 17, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: JC Loudon
Feb 10, 2023
When monuments lie
Feb 10, 2023
Dressing Lydia Tár
Feb 10, 2023
The vulnerability of Australia's food supply chains
Feb 10, 2023
A brief history of shock value on the fashion runway
Feb 03, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — sugar syrup
Feb 03, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Japanese manhole covers
Feb 03, 2023
From dead malls to new schools — lessons in retrofitting suburbia
Feb 03, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: the jumpsuit
Jan 27, 2023
The imperial roots of Australian wine
Jan 27, 2023
How Asian migration has shaped Australian suburbia
Jan 27, 2023
What will 2023 bring for food and dining?
Jan 27, 2023
Eric Wareheim's tall order
Jan 20, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs — Ice Cream Scoop
Jan 20, 2023
What is a city without a great food writer?
Jan 20, 2023
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental: Salad Dressing
Jan 20, 2023
Tim Entwisle's Evergreen — The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk
Jan 13, 2023
Bruce Pascoe's farm
Jan 13, 2023
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — Lawns
Jan 13, 2023
Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Thorncrown Chapel
Jan 13, 2023
Besha Rodell — elevating the in-flight meal
Jan 06, 2023
Luxury tourism, Indigenous style
Jan 06, 2023
Reception this way — a journey across Australia's motels
Jan 06, 2023