About this episode
Jun 2022
The Barossa Cookery Book Project
17m 51s
Jun 2022
Bill Bensley's World of Escapism
14m 50s
Jun 2022
Kitchen Rudimental: The perfect potato cake (or scallop)
14m 48s
Oct 2023
The Crappy, Commodious History of Toilets
47m 49s
May 2022
Accessibility Outside the Box - Episode 2: City Planning
24m 23s
Feb 2024
Cities
1h 2m
Jun 2022
Cities – the hot beds of evolution
29m 8s
Oct 2019
The Help-Yourself City
31m 41s
Sep 2023
ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE on Urban Entanglements /348
1 h
Nov 2021
Why toilets matter
18m 12s
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Hotel designer Bill Bensley lives by the motto, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing. The California-born designer has studios in Bangkok and Bali, and his latest book More Escapism: Hotels, Resorts and Gardens features some of the region’s most extravagant resorts. His insp ... Show More
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. There's nothing that quite beats the decadent crunch and taste of a freshly deep-fried potato cake (or scallop).
Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has been trying to figure out where to put all its poop. While it's easy to take your average flushing commode for granted, it turns out thousands of years of research went into creating the toilets we use today. Tune in as Ben, Noel, and ... Show More
The second episode of our "Accessibility Outside the Box" series is about City Planning. We interviewed Nora Libertun, a global leading expert on urban planning and design, sustainability, and social inclusion. Her work revolves around making everything in a city more accessible, ... Show More
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What does it mean to settle, to be in a settled place? This week’s guest, AbdouMaliq Simone has dedicated his work to investigating the specifics of urban organization as they are created by people. In this erudite and globally-positioned conversation, Ayana and AbdouMaliq medita ... Show More
Happy World Toilet Day! It is that day of the year when we all need to overcome our embarrassment and discuss what is normally a taboo topic. Hundreds of millions of people still have no access to a toilet, putting them at risk of disease, sexual assault and public humiliation.Ta ... Show More
