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Lost and Found

129 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

Each week we discover a new city or neighbourhood somewhere in the world via its architecture, food, gardens, art, literature and cultural history.

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Costa Rica

January 12, 2022 00:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

A country rich in biodiversity, a festival for every saint and 16 different types of avocado: come on a journey to Costa Rica.

Milan

January 06, 2022 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

Behind the cosmopolitan, dynamic, and fashion-filled city of Milan lies a long and rich history. Down your aperitivo, hop on the underground train and take a tour around this grand Italian city.

Manila

December 29, 2021 00:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

The Philippines is a melange of Austronesian, Spanish, Chinese, and American histories which have their focal point in the capital, Manila. But to really see Manila as it is now, throw out everything you've been told… because it's time to head to the mall.

Christmas

December 23, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Christmas in the city… well, a city emerging from six lockdowns. Join Jonathan as he takes a stroll through the spine of central Melbourne decked out in full Christmas garb, with a few street Santas mixed in for good measure.

Kefalonia

December 16, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

An odyssey of loukamades, fir trees and feasts for a Patron Saint

Lisbon

December 09, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

It's a global tourist mecca, drawing in visitors to its Wes Anderson-like dreamscape of pastel-coloured row houses, quaint lemon yellow trams, and cobblestone streets cascading down to a glittering river mouth. But dig a little deeper, and you'll find the darker histories beneath Lisbon's bright veneer.

Lost and Found — Las Vegas

December 02, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Is Las Vegas The Strip? Or is The Strip, Las Vegas?

Las Vegas

December 02, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Is Las Vegas The Strip? Or is The Strip, Las Vegas?

Patrick McGorry's Swansea

November 25, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Featuring beautiful landscapes, coal, rugby and Beatlemania.

Mexico City

November 18, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Pop on your walking shoes and head out to discover the wealth of art, architecture, cuisines, and histories that reside in this seductively chaotic city… as well as the razed metropolis beneath it.

Vilnius

November 11, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MB

A journey to the Lithuanian capital featuring a visit to Vilnius' last remaining synagogue and a day trip to a Soviet theme park.

Melbourne General Cemetery

November 04, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Contrary to what we see, there is plenty of life to be found in an urban cemetery – especially where trees and plants are concerned.

Bath

October 28, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Tuck into a brioche-style Sally Lunn bun, admire Palladian and neoclassical Georgian architecture, and retrace the footsteps of a 25 year old Jane Austen to the Pump Room.

Lost and Found — Bath

October 28, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Tuck into a brioche-style Sally Lunn bun, admire Palladian and neoclassical Georgian architecture, and retrace the footsteps of a 25 year old Jane Austen to the Pump Room.

Seoul

October 21, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

If you're a fan of time travel, Seoul might be the city for you. It's a bustling, futuristic metropolis that retains a strong and deep sense of history.

Western Sydney

October 14, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Too often obscured by news headlines and stereotypes, it's time to get to know the vast urban expanse that is Western Sydney.

Florida

October 07, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

To the outsider, 'Florida' evokes a certain kind of hot, swampy and technicolour Americana — a particular kind of heat-warped American eccentricity with added canasta. But what is the place really like?

Bookshops part two

September 30, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

It's time to go on a journey of the mind around the world via the bookstore. For our second and final edition, let some new and old friends whisk you around New York, Maastricht and Chandigarh.

Bookshops part one

September 23, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MB

It's time to go on a journey of the mind around the world via the places that are the ultimate conduits for escape — the bookstore. In part one of two, discover Wales' 'town of books', and Juliana Engberg's bibliophile guide to London and Paris.

Belfast

September 16, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Belfast is kaleidoscopic — a product born out of contested histories and the desire to break free from it. As Northern Ireland commemorates 100 years since partition, take a journey through a city that is shedding its historical sectarian binaries.

The Enchanted City

September 02, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Come on an urban tramp, in search of enchantment, to discover the industrial city anew.

Taipei

August 19, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Hop on board one of the best transit systems in the world and arrive on time to enjoy hot pot, oyster omelettes and braised pork over rice; before taking in the culturally eclectic sites that make up Taiwan's capital.

Tokyo

August 12, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Discover the Olympic city anew, through a tour of some its well-known neighbourhoods, fashion, architecture… and tuna loiners.

Lost and Found - Saturday, August 8

August 05, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Discover a new city or neighbourhood somewhere in the world via its architecture, food, gardens, art, literature and cultural history.

New Zealand Bubble

July 29, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Our travel bubble with New Zealand might be closed for now (thanks, Delta variant) but it doesn't mean we can't plan for the future.

Urban London

July 22, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Urban music… it's a London thing. From grime to garage, to drum & bass, the city itself has been instrumental in incubating these rich musical cultures. Take a trip through the council estates, radio stations, and social histories that made this happen.

Budapest

July 08, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

From the Ruin Bar to Budapest's spectacular thermal bath houses, Bela Lajta's proto-deco Parisiana nightclub to Bartok's transformational impact on 20th century music, we take a mind journey through the Hungarian capital.

Mount Bogong

July 01, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MB

Victoria's tallest summit is Mount Bogong, a place of dazzling beauty nestled in the Great Dividing Range on Yaithmathang country. Jonathan Green takes you on an icy journey up the mountain.

Byron Bay

June 24, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Beautiful beaches, ideal surfing conditions, national parks and plenty of sunshine; it's not hard to see why Byron Bay attracts everyone from holiday makers to social media influencers, to the global film industry.

Lost and Found — Milan

June 10, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Behind the cosmopolitan, dynamic, and fashion-filled city of Milan lies a long and rich history. Down your aperitivo, hop on the underground train and take a tour around this grand Italian city.

Milan

June 10, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Behind the cosmopolitan, dynamic, and fashion-filled city of Milan lies a long and rich history. Down your aperitivo, hop on the underground train and take a tour around this grand Italian city.

Richard Leplastrier's House

June 03, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Gamilaraay man and ABC Top 5 Arts residential scholar Beau de Belle brings us along on a visit to the house of his mentor and friend, the revered architect Richard Leplastrier.

Xinjiang

May 27, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Arid dessert air, plunging temperatures at night, bright white light and framed by multiple mountain ranges: Xinjiang is the kind of place that inspires poetry, music and delicious food.

Berlin

May 06, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MB

Come on a mind journey through the 'unloved capital' to discover Berlin's rough charm, it's currywurst, its art and the unavoidable weight of it's history.

Queer Melbourne

April 29, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MB

Turn a 'queer eye' to Victoria's capital city on a walking tour with historian Graham Willett.

Brasília

April 15, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

How might you go about building a capital city from scratch?

Jerusalem

April 08, 2021 16:05 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MB

A journey to an ancient city marked by both beauty and ugliness, where intractable allegiances, passions and pasts collide.

Melbourne Cricket Ground

March 25, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

In anticipation of Australian football's return, journey to the MCG, a centuries old meeting place with many stories to tell.

Bergen

March 18, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

A city of beauty, inwardness, and relentless, driving rain from which emerged Neo-Fjordic cuisine, Karl Ove Knausgård and with him a great literary renaissance.

Toronto

March 11, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Take a tour of Canada's largest and most multicultural city via it's underground walkways, it's myriad of restaurants and a Toronto Raptors home game.

South Auckland

February 25, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Take a trip to South Auckland, a city within a city; it's geographical lines drawn by greater Auckland's collective imaginary (allowing a glimpse of how one might come to understand race relations in Aotearoa).

Rome (in poetry)

February 18, 2021 15:05 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MB

A journey through the ancient Italian capital - from the Spanish Steps to the Villa Sciarra - through the eyes of the poets.

Copenhagen (part two)

February 11, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Our Danish journey takes a dark turn with a focus on dismemberment, watery death, rogue detectives and a trip across the Øresund Bridge.

Copenhagen (part one)

February 04, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

We discover the joys of Smørrebrød, rail against the Noma-inspired culinary trend of muscle reduction, indulge in a hygge polemic and visit and expressionist church.

Lost and Found — Christchurch

January 24, 2021 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Willows, green grass, craft beer, arts festivals and the crispest air - come on a mind journey to Ōtautahi.

Lost and Found — Lake Burley Griffin

January 17, 2021 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Come on a mind journey to Canberra's great not-so-natural wonder, Lake Burley Griffin, featuring carp, politics and a surprise stopover in Lucknow, India.

Lost and Found — Reykjavik

January 10, 2021 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Step into the icy wilderness and come on a tour of the Icelandic capital, featuring cardamom pastries, hot springs and a visit to the phallological museum.

Lost and Found – Vienna

January 03, 2021 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

These days the Austrian capital is widely known as the world's most liveable city. But in the cosy, domesticity of that term, 'liveability', there's no hint of the drama of Vienna's cultural past.

Lost and Found — Brixton

December 26, 2020 14:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Come on a mind journey to Brixton, an bustling intersection where diversity, community, gentrification, house music and calypso collide.

Country

December 20, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Has there ever been a better time to learn about this place, our home; about country, connection, the stories of the land and its people?