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Lost and Found

129 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 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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Episodes

Montreal

December 06, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Come on a culinary journey through Montreal, from the world's greatest bagels to maple whiskey, via Leonard Cohen's favourite steak house.

Golf course

November 29, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Golf courses have become sites of contest, where urgent questions around public space, environmental protection and community in rapidly growing cities are being played out.

Los Angeles (Part Two)

November 22, 2020 02:30 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

From food court dumplings to rooftop martinis, Alhambra to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.

Los Angeles (Part One)

November 15, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

From farmers markets to taco trucks, Bel Air to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.

Naples

November 08, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

In Napoli beside the sea, under the dormant eye of Mt. Vesuvius, a bustling hub of culture awaits.

Bondi Beach

November 01, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Grab your reef-friendly sunblock, your towel, your beach book and find a place on the sand of Sydney's most iconic beach.

Berlin (an urbanist's tour)

October 25, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Occupied power stations, community gardens, squats and cooperatives - a journey through a city unique for its unwavering collective commitment to open public space.

Torres Strait Islands

October 11, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

A mind journey to a landscape of sky and water, bubbling reefs and delicious food shared generously.

Galway

September 27, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Ornate doors, relentless rain and a rich literary heritage, we take a mind journey to the beautiful city of Galway.

Tour de France

September 13, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Eat, cycle, repeat as Sporty's Amanda Smith joins Jonathan Green on a journey of the mind to a European summer.

Lost and Found — Prague

September 06, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Richard Fidler takes us on a tour of Prague and reveals the unsettling beauty in the city's hundred spires and cobbled streets, baroque domes and Gothic steeples, its golems, its violent history and its alchemy.

Lost and Found - Oahu

August 30, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Learn the true meaning of Aloha, deepen your appreciation of the ukulele and take a detour to some of Oahu's most significant cultural places.

Lost and Found — Helsinki

August 23, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Quiet darkness, modernist delights and all the herring - a mind journey into the cosmopolitan Finnish capital.

Lost and Found - Broken Hill, Wilyakali Country

August 16, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Hop on a pink bus named Priscilla, turn up the music and look out the window at beautiful Wilyakali country in this week's journey to Broken Hill.

Lost and Found - Cranbourne Gardens

August 09, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Just days before Melbourne went into Stage Four lockdown, Jonathan drove to meet Tim Entwisle for a walk through Cranbourne Gardens

Lost and Found — Mannahatta

July 26, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

This week, a journey in space and time to the place the Lenape called, Mannahatta, a lush forest and complex ecosystem onto which the modern metropolis of Manhattan was superimposed.

Lost and Found — Hanoi

July 12, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Inhale incense, dodge scooters, and devour a bowl of Pho in the Vietnamese capital where Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, communism, remnants of French colonialism, Chinese occupation and American imperialism collide.

Lost and Found - Zurich

June 07, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

From Dada to raclette, lake swimming to Le Corbusier, we take a mind journey through Switzerland's largest city.

Lost and Found — the Brooklyn Bridge

May 31, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Architecture critic for the New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, gives us a virtual tour of the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of a great metropolis and the promise of modern urban life.

Lost and Found - Patagonia

May 24, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

A mind journey to a famously wild and beautiful place, whose story has largely been shaped by outsiders.

Lost and Found — Boston

May 17, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

A mind journey to the birth place of American ideas of liberty and tyranny, featuring Henry James, clams, a brutalist masterpiece and a cream pie that is, in fact, a cake.

Lost and Found — Tokyo

May 10, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

From the outrageous street-styles of Harajuku to Le Corbusier's concrete legacy, we take you on a journey through the thrilling metropolis of Tokyo.

Lost and Found — Amsterdam

May 03, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

From poffertjes to Rembrandt, stroopwafels, sex and tulips - we take a mind journey through the Dutch capital.

Lost and Found — Great Barrier Reef

April 26, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

White sand, blue water and an ecosystem in trouble; we take a journey to Australia's great natural wonder.

Lost and Found — The empty city

April 19, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MB

A journey into the heart of the deserted city to discover what remains in our "empty" urban spaces.

Lost and Found - Samoa via Braybrook

April 12, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Hear Phoebe Preuss tell Jonathan a story of place, connection, memories of home... starting with a cacao bean.

Lost and Found — Everest

April 05, 2020 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

The world's highest mountain has long occupied a powerful place in our collective imagination; we talk to a climber who recently reached the summit.

Lost and Found — Berlin

March 29, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

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

Lost and Found — Montreal

March 22, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

Come on a culinary journey through Montreal, from the world's greatest bagels to maple whiskey, via Leonard Cohen's favourite steak house.

Lost and Found — Moscow

March 15, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

A mind journey to Russia's megacity, a place rich in contradiction, contrast, diversity, where symbols, buildings and monuments are destroyed and rebuilt, each time telling a new story about Russia, each time leaving a trace of what came before.

Lost and Found — Silicon Valley

February 09, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MB

A mind journey to the sprawling Californian centre of wealth, techno utopianism, self-optimisation and exemplar of the contradictions and excesses of 21st century urban life.

Lost and Found – Jakarta

February 02, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Megacity of 30 million people, culturally rich, rapidly sinking, we take a tour of the frenetic, thrilling Indonesian metropolis.

Lost and Found – Glasgow

January 26, 2020 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

An tour of the cultural, intellectual and architectural delights of the city once described as "the antidote to the rest of the world".

Lost and Found – Hobart Modern

November 30, 2019 23:06 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Joel Rheinberger is joined by architect Leigh Woolley for a tour of Hobart's Dorney House.

Lost and Found – Brisbane Modern

November 24, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Architecture historian Don Watson takes Jonathan on a tour of the Riverside Expressway and the Archerfield Second World War Igloos Complex.

Lost and Found – Darwin Modern

November 17, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Take a tour of St Mary's Star of the Sea War Memorial Cathedral. Plus, a conversation about modernism in Darwin post Cyclone Tracy.

Lost and Found – Perth Modern

November 10, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

Joanna Trilling visits Perth's Council House, designed by architects Jeffrey Howlett and Don Bailey.

Lost and Found – Adelaide Modern

November 03, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

This week Jonathan takes a walk through the University of Adelaide's Union Building, designed by architects Dickson and Platten.

Lost and Found – Sydney Modern

October 27, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

From its liberal use of brick in apartments and public housing, to the architect-designed display homes of Pettit and Sevitt, to the Sydney Opera House, modernist architecture has literally shaped the city of Sydney.

Lost and Found – Sandstone

October 20, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

"No city has been as profoundly influenced by its rocky foundation as Sydney" – Tim Flannery, The Sandstone City.

Lost and found – Ancient Places, Brisbane

October 13, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MB

Beginning at the edges of the river at Kurilpa point, we make our way over the bridge and look beyond to the rest of Meanjin, Brisbane.

Lost and Found – Bluestone

October 06, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

From graffitied laneways to it's ancient Indigenous uses, bluestone has long shaped the city of Melbourne.

Lost and Found — Colour

September 29, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

From blonde to ginger, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, we delve into the vivid world of colour.

Lost and Found — Fake

September 22, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

From fake brick veneer to Sweden's replica Harlem, counterfeit couture to slightly browning fake plants, we delve into the world of fakery and illusion.

Lost and Found – Budapest

September 15, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.8 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.

Lost and Found — Rise

September 08, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MB

A remarkable discovery of 4,500 year-old Egyptian yeast, the irrationality of the sky scraper, cloning ancient redwoods and the surprising history of the high heel.

Lost and Found — Robin Boyd

September 01, 2019 03:30 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MB

The story of one of Australia's greatest architects whose seminal critique of "the Australian ugliness" continues to have profound resonance.

Lost and Found — Tokyo

August 25, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

From the outrageous street-styles of Harajuku to Le Corbusier's concrete legacy, we take you on a journey through the thrilling metropolis of Tokyo.

Lost and Found — Skin

August 18, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MB

Cladding, clothing, tree bark and crispy duck: a revealing journey through many layers of skin.

Lost and Found — Toxic

August 12, 2019 03:31 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

Welcome to toxic, the world we are living in and it's only going to get worse.