Lost and Found
129 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEach 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
Lost and Found — Everest
August 04, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBThe 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 — Surveillance
July 28, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBHow has surveillance in todays global cities transformed urban life and what are the possibilities for privacy in the digital age?
Lost and Found — Frozen
July 21, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBA chilling meditation on our rapidly disappearing frozen world, from Sicilian granita to the architecture of the snow cave.
Lost and Found — Naples
July 14, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBIn Napoli beside the sea, under the dormant eye of Mt. Vesuvius, a bustling hub of culture awaits.
Lost and Found — Fez
July 07, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBFrom the Art Deco buildings of La Ville Nouvelle to an extraordinary project to rehabilitate the Fez river, a honey souk to a 400 year old communal bakery, we take a mind journey to the city of Fez.
Lost and Found — Bubbles
June 30, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBFrom the aeration that make a perfect chocolate mousse to the housing bubble and its architectural symptoms, we explore the ethereal world of bubbles.
Lost and Found — Colour
June 23, 2019 03:06 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBFrom 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 — Earth
June 15, 2019 15:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBWhat do worms, feta cheese, tubers and archers have in common? It will all be uncovered.
Lost and Found — Decorative
June 09, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBWhat has happened to ornament in a minimalist world? Did modernism obscure a popular taste for the decorative? And is it time to re-embrace kitsch?
Lost and Found — Birds
June 02, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBMajestic in flight or good in the oven, it's up, up and away with a look at birds.
Lost and Found — Chicago
May 26, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBUrban blues, iconic chocolate bars and some of the 20th century's most spectacular architecture: we travel to one of America's last great cities.
Lost and Found — Democracy
May 19, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBA study of Australia's democratic culture - from the sausage sizzle to ill-fitting suits, the public places in which we vote to communal rituals on election day.
Lost and Found — Clutter
May 12, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBWe explore the voracious public appetite for decluttering and the cultural anxieties that tidying and detoxing claim to cure.
Lost and Found — Sin
May 05, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23 MBA tasting menu of the seven deadly sins, from the sandwich that undid Elvis to pineapple envy and a very lusty lamprey.
Lost and Found — Venice
April 28, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBFrom the Acqua Alta bookshop to the Rialto fish market, we revel in the sublime beauty of Venice.
Lost and Found — River Red Gum
April 25, 2019 09:35 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBFrom a furniture maker's workshop to the Barmah National Park, we take a tour of these ancient wonders.
Lost and Found — Ritual
April 21, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBFrom the sweet Greek Easter bread tsoureki to chocolate eggs, simnel cake and gefilte fish we explore symbols, ritual and tradition.
Lost and Found — Ruin
April 14, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBA study of ruin, from renaissance paintings, littered with Greco-Roman ruins to contemporary photographs of dilapidated Detroit.
Lost and Found — Active
April 07, 2019 03:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBWe don our black stretchy pants, get our 10,000 steps and try to make sense of our exercise fetish.
Lost and Found — Ancient Places, Canberra
March 31, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBA series tracing the ancient places onto which our modern cities have been transplanted; this week a journey to Canberra.
Lost and Found — Trees
March 24, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBFrom the Giant Sequoia to the Cathedral-like Mountain Ash forest, modern timber skyscrapers to the brutal death of a heritage Milkwood, we explore the world of trees.
Lost and Found — Brutality
March 17, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBFrom the Roman Pantheon to Peter Zumthor's field chapel, symbol of utopian socialism to todays online brutalist love affair, concrete continues to shape our world.
Lost and Found — Autumn
March 10, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBFrom hues of decay to golden autumnal light, denim jackets to slow braises, we bask in the most melancholy and beautiful of seasons.
Lost and Found — Bauhaus
March 03, 2019 02:30 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBA look at Bauhaus 100 years on.
Lost and Found — Sea Foods
February 24, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBFrom the confronting superfood, blood cockle, to oyster ice cream and the many uses of seaweed, we explore the past, present and future of Australia's neglected sea foods.
Lost and Found — Smart
February 17, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBThe promise of a smart future might be deeply alluring but what is at stake when we cede our cities and our homes to the smart economy?
Helsinki
February 10, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBQuiet darkness, modernist delights and all the herring - a mind journey into the cosmopolitan Finnish capital.
Office
February 03, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBFrom overly-engineered lunchboxes to appropriate workplace attire, we delve into the grim world of the modern office.
Dreams
January 27, 2019 02:30 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBThe life and death of the Australian dream, the night-time antics of the giant water lily and why brie gives you nightmares.