Science podcast about fish biology, evolution, and technology with the occasional foray into entertainment and media. Hosted by three professional fish biologists: Dr. Matt Davis (@bathypterois), Dr. Leo Smith (@fishphylogeny), and Dr. Kevin Tang (@_thefishmongers).
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Podcast that explores the industry, where guests share their experiences of working in the creative sector and the lessons they’ve learnt along the way. Nothing to do with fish. Contains swearing.
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Broadcasting from Phuket, Thailand. CASTFISH promises to bring you the current favourite house and techno tunes, presented in a continuous 1 hour mix by your host FISHMONGER.
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Your weekly expedition to the heart of modern life through buildings, design, gardens and food.
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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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SALTS & WATER: Stories from the Maine Coast by Experience Maritime Maine
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EXPERIENCE MARITIME MAINE celebrates the rich heritage, culture and dramatic natural beauty of Maine’s Coast. SALTS & WATER is a new 6-part podcast series by award-winning producer Rob Rosenthal for Experience Maritime Maine that takes you on a very unique journey on the Maine coasts of Eastport, Stonington, Searsport, Rockland, Bath, and Portland.
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Bluefield housing, tree collecting, the world of the fishmonger, and Siegfried Bing's art nouveau
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We explore how the concept of bluefield architecture could assist in the housing crisis, meet some passionate tree collectors, hear about the world of fishmongering, and learn about the Parisian legacy of Siegfried Bing.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Anthony Yotis learnt all there was to know about seafood from his father who was a fishmonger at Melbourne's Footscray wholesale seafood markets for more than 40 years. A few years ago he opened his own shop called The Fishmonger's Son and, alongside his wife Laura, has just published his own cookbook with the same title.…
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Journeys through the cold chain, designing for rivers, the world of horology
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We explore how refrigeration has changed what we eat, ask how we can better design for city waterways, and meet a man who repairs time for a living.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Can better design save our city rivers? Kirsten Bauer is the global design director of Aspect Studios which has taken part in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria which explores design visions for Melbourne's Birrarung/Yarra for 2070.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Nicola Twilley is co-host of the Gastropod podcast and the author of a new book, 'Frostbite - How refrigeration changed our food, our planet and ourselves'. She delves into the secrets of the 'cold chain', a little understood part of our food supply that has a fascinating history and has changed how we eat today.…
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Michael Colman is a horologist- a maker and repairer of watches and clocks. He welcomes us into his workshop to explore the world of keeping time.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Roger Leong, senior curator at the Powerhouse Museum, shares some of the treasures from the recently acquired David Jones archives.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Lauren Fuge is a science writer and traveller who explores what it is that drives us to traverse seas and continents. Her new book is Voyagers- our journey into the Anthropocene.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What is the neurological response to bad design? Colin Ellard is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Waterloo in Canada whose research examines what happens to the human brain when architecture fails to inspire.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Neuroscience and bad design, David Jones archive, Lauren Fuge on voyaging, the drawing pin as an icon
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We learn what boring buildings do to the brain, discover what treasures are in store in the David Jones archives, ponder the human need to travel with Lauren Fuge and join Colin Bisset as he turns his keen eye to the humble drawing pin.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Colin Bisset's Iconic designs: the drawing pin
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Colin Bisset explores the iconic potential of the humble drawing pin.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Could 'bluefield' architecture assist in the housing crisis and save the streetscapes of our suburbs? Damian Madigan, a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of South Australia, explains how.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Writer Amy Stewart explores the weird and wonderful world of passionate tree collecting in her new book, aptly called The Tree Collectors.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Colin Bisset's Iconic designs: Siegfried Bing
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Colin Bisset explores the world of Siegfried Bing whose gallery in the centre of Paris gave its name to Art Nouveau.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome is not only an architectural marvel but also represents the birth of modern engineering practices. The dome may not have survived if it wasn't for the intervention of a tenacious pope and three mathematicians. It is a story recounted in a new book Saving Michelangelo's Dome by University of California academi…
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Paulette Whitney runs a market garden called Provenance Growers in Lutruwita/Tasmania. She has explored her love of edible plants, including more unusual or hard to get varieties, in her new book Broccoli and other Love Stories.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Daniella Guevara Muñoz, the owner of Adelaide's La Popular Taqueria, is on a mission to educate others about the food of her homeland. Her quest is to have us rethink our assumptions about Mexican food.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Michelangelo's dome, Mexican food, Paulette Whitney, the spork
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The story of St Peter's Basilica and the birth of modern engineering, Daniella Guevara Muñoz on real Mexican cuisine, Paulette Whitney and her Tasmanian market garden, and Colin Bisset rejoices in the marvel that is the spork.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Colin Bisset turns his attention to that most versatile piece of cutlery- the spork.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Fashion plastics, bespoke tailoring, Andrew McConnell's last supper, the Singer as an icon
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We explore the problem of plastics in fashion, learn about the art of a good suit from Patrick Grant of London's Savile Row, taste Andrew McConnell's last supper of spaghetti vongole, and share in the gossip surrounding the Singer sewing machine.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Last Supper: Andrew McConnell's spaghetti vongole
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Andrew McConnell is a chef and the owner of a plethora of Melbourne restaurants, wines and food providores. He shares his deep love of cooking with a dish he would choose for his last meal, spaghetti vongole.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Patrick Grant is the co-owner of Savile Row tailors Norton and Sons and the author of The Savile Row Suit- the art of bespoke tailoring. He shares his insights into the joy of a well cut suit, albeit at an eye-watering price.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A staggering 62 per cent of the clothes we buy in Australia have some form of synthetics in them. With the rise of fast fashion the ubiquity of plastics will only worsen over time. Dr Tamzin Rollason is a lecturer at RMIT's School of Fashion and Textiles who argues we need to rethink not just consumer behaviour but the life cycle of clothes from st…
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Colin Bisset's Iconic designs: Singer sewing machine
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Colin Bisset explores the gossip worthy life of Isaac Merritt Singer, the man who invented the modern sewing machine, the Singer.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Geoffrey Bawa is one of Sri Lanka's most renowned architects and now a new documentary is highlighting his extraordinary body of work. Afdhel Aziz is the director of The Genius of Place which is available to stream via the Shelter Architecture channel.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Geoffrey Bawa, Elizabeth David, 15 minute cities, and glass art
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The work of Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa is celebrated in a new documentary, Annie Smithers explores the veggie chapter in Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cooking, we ask what benefits 15 minutes cities can bring for women in particular, and visit glass artist Nadine Keegan in her studio.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The benefits of 15 minute cities, where amenities are within easy reach for urban life, are gaining traction around the world. Stephanie Bertolo, Associate at Springboard Policy, a public policy research and advisory firm in Canada, explores what this idea means for women in particular.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Annie Smithers on Elizabeth David's vegetables
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Annie Smithers explores the next chapter in Elizabeth David's seminal work French Provincial Cooking. This time it is the turn of vegetables to come under Elizabeth's exacting eye.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What inspires us to make and create? In this new series we visit craftspeople artisans, and makers in their studios to hear about their craft. First up is Nadine Keegan, glass artist.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Mary-Jane Walker is an evolutionary scientist and artist based in Geelong, Victoria. She is working in 'paper taxidermy' to create more than 80 birds which are under threat in her Now You See Us art project.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Is there a link between good design and democracy? Sophia Psarra is a professor of Architecture and Spatial Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London who has studied the way architecture subtly influences power structures in parliaments around the world.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What we put in our tea and coffee has become a polarising subject in recent years, so why is it that milk has become such a hot topic? Matthew Evans is a chef, farmer and author. His new book is called Milk-the truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The milk debate, parliamentary architecture, and Geelong's threatened birds
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Chef and farmer Matthew Evans explores the polarising nature of milk, we unpick what parliamentary design means for democracy, and visit artist and scientist Mary-Jane Walker in her studio to explore her art project on Geelong's threatened birds.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Grand tours for the aristocracy in centuries gone by were filled with art and architecture to fulfil the senses. But what would such a tour look like today if only places created in the 20th and 21st centuries were on the itinerary? Richard Weller is a landscape architect who has pondered this question in his latest book, To the ends of the earth- …
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As higher density increases in our cities and we look for housing solutions, how can apartment design be improved? Dr Elizabeth Farrelly is the founder and CEO of the Better Cities Initiative, an organisation which is calling for better planning models to create more vibrant urban centres into the future.…
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A modern grand tour, Sam Cox on garden design, and plants in space
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We go on a grand tour for the 21st century, discuss better apartment design, visit landscape designer Sam Cox in his naturalistic garden, and look to the future when plants can survive on the Moon and sustain us as we journey Mars.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What role can the humble duckweed play as humans embark on missions to the Moon and Mars? And what lessons can be learned about food security here on Earth? Professor Matthew Gilliham is the director Plants for Space, a consortium of academics who are turning their attention to this question of botanical survival.…
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Sam Cox is a landscape designer who learnt his craft from one of the leaders in naturalistic garden design, the late Gordon Ford. He takes us on a tour of his garden and reflects on how we can all learn from the natural contours of the landscape.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Mourning fashion, for the love of cemeteries, and Jamie Oliver's last supper
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We explore a Blueprint for death on this special episode: why black is the colour of mourning, cemeteries as a boon for the living, Colin Bisset's world tour of monuments, and Jamie Oliver's last supper.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Colin Bisset on the world's great monuments
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Colin Bisset takes us on a tour of the some of the world's greatest commemorative monuments. From London's Albert Memorial to Berlin's November Revolution Monument, they speak of a desire to immortalise and elevate a particular viewpoint of history.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Can cemeteries be a boon for the living as well as a place for the dearly departed? Tania Davidge, Executive Director of Open House Melbourne, believes so. She argues that cemeteries can provide much needed open space in our crowded cities to be enjoyed across the generations.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What role has the colour black played in mourning fashions since the time of Queen Victoria? Dr Lorinda Cramer is a fashion historian at Deakin University and co-curator of Back to Black, an exhibition at Old Government House, Parramatta. She charts the changing cultural meanings associated with this darkest of hues.…
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Chef Jamie Oliver selects the last meal he would have on this earth- his mum's roast dinner. Surrounded by friends and family, he believes a Sunday roast would be the best final meal, with all the trimmings.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Seeds: How do we regenerate land with a 90% shortfall in native seeds?
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The total area of degraded land in Australia is eight times the size of Tasmania. The need to replant diverse native species is more urgent than ever. But with a critical shortfall in the availability of native seeds, how can we replant degraded ecosystems and meet Australia’s ambitious international targets? Read more: Only 10% of native plants ca…
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See a weed, pluck it out, right? Maybe it’s not so simple. Tim Entwisle speaks with John Dwyer whose new anthology, "Weeding Between the Lines," offers a provocative rethink of what weeds are and how we approach them - in our backyards and in the bush. Learn more Weeding Between the Lines by John Dwyer…
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Feeds: Will Aussie cafes and restaurants survive?
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Australian restaurants and cafes are grappling with the impacts of the cost of living, COVID, immigration reform, and wages, jeopardising their survival. Wes Lambert is the head of a new peak body, alongside Neil Perry and Chris Lucas, tackling these pressing challenges to sustain the $64 billion sector.…
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The future of weeds, native seeds, and restaurant feeds
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Feeds: Will Aussie cafes and restaurants survive? Australian restaurants and cafes are grappling with the impacts of the cost of living, COVID, immigration reform, and wages, jeopardising their survival. Wes Lambert is the head of a new peak body, alongside Neil Perry and Chris Lucas, tackling these pressing challenges to sustain the $64 billion se…
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Colin Bisset - A Journey Through France with Le Corbusier
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Explore the fascinating world of architect Le Corbusier with design commentator Colin Bisset, as he walks in the footsteps of this larger than life figure. Colin shares his own love affair with France, including his firsthand experiences of Le Corbusier’s iconic buildings, and his strange obsession with concrete.…
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Tim Spector – The Gut and the New Science of Eating Well What exactly is the gut microbiome and why is everyone talking about it? Nutrition expert and genetic epidemiologist Tim Spector debunks common dietary myths, and gives his top 5 tips for eating a healthy and diverse diet that your gut – and your mind – will thank you for. Lismore After the F…
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Lismore After the Flood: Rebuilding and Resilience
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Two years after devastating floods ravaged Northern NSW and South-East Queensland, the town of Lismore is the focus of a collaborative effort to rebuild. Drawing from her experience in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Professor Elizabeth Mossop explores what’s ahead for Lismore and how other communities can thrive amid climate change threats.…
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