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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.
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Sep 29, 2023 • 17min
Looking to a prefab past to solve the housing crisis
Could post war housing solutions - including prefab homes brought by skilled workers - help address Australia's current housing crisis?

Sep 29, 2023 • 26min
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — Advice on soil, drainage and other gardening stumbling blocks
Paul Bangay’s advice for home gardeners confronting common stumbling blocks.Find more of Paul's Garden Rudimentals on the ABC RN website.

Sep 22, 2023 • 22min
Is the future of the city childless?
Alexandra Lange - award winning design critic, writer, author of The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids - reflects on the increasingly urgent question: what place do children have in our cities and why are we seeing an exodous of families from urban centres around the world?

Sep 22, 2023 • 4min
Iconic Designs: The Green School, Bali
It's no surprise that the Green School in Bali is something of a pin-up for bamboo architecture given the way it sits so beautifully in its surroundings. Resident design expert Colin Bisset takes you there.

Sep 22, 2023 • 17min
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — truffles
Annie and Jonathan go in search of the diamonds of gastronomy with Dr Peter Stahle, farmer, forager and producer of the first certified Italian white truffle and José, the truffle pug.Find more of Annie's past Kitchen Rudimentals here.

Sep 22, 2023 • 10min
The architecture of therapy
Stephanie Liddicoat explains why its important for architects, counsellors and therapists to think about the design of spaces for therapeutic treatment.

Sep 8, 2023 • 12min
What does 'plant-based' actually mean?
The term is almost ubiquitous in food and shopping culture, but why are we using it?