Blueprint For Living - Full Program Podcast

Plus, resident design expert Colin Bisset walks us through the cool, concrete convent of La Tourette, and chef Annie Smithers answers the ultimate question: what makes a salad, a salad?

Plus, Colin Bisset delves into the design history of the top hat… an item that adorned both King George IV and Madonna.

RN Summer brings you the best of Blueprint and Lost and Found.

RN Summer brings you the best of Blueprint and Lost and Found.

RN Summer brings you the best of Blueprint and Lost and Found.

RN Summer brings you the best of Blueprint and Lost and Found.

RN Summer brings you the best of Blueprint and Lost and Found.

Plus, Colin Bisset explains why the sleigh has been inseparable from Christmas iconography for centuries… and take a Lost and Found trip through Melbourne in full festive regalia.

Plus, Colin Bisset on the post-modern American department stores that could, and a Lost and Found trip to Kefalonia, a Greek paradise.

Plus Colin Bisset on the Butler Sink and a Lost and Found journey to Lisbon.

Plus, Colin Bisset on the links between the court of Versailles and one of the most popular chair designs of the 21st-century… and a trip to the city that's taken a bit of Versailles with it… Las Vegas.

Melbourne's Deputy Lord Mayor has introduced two new design review panels. Does this form of advisory city-making actually work? Two experts join Blueprint to discuss the history and merits of this process. Plus, Annie Smithers whips up a meringue, and Colin Bisset takes you on a tour of the Korakuen Garden. And for Lost and Found, eminent Irish-Australian psychiatrist Patrick McGorry takes you to his childhood in Wales.

Plus Colin Bisset on the monocle.

Plus, let us send you on your way to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius with a takeaway pack of Annie Smithers' frittatas.

Plus, discover the strange but fascinating world of industrialised food production, and the origins of the rubber band.

What has gender got to do with type? Well, nothing actually. But that doesn't stop us from ascribing gender to it. Hear from type designer Marie Boulanger, whose new book tries to understand why we keep doing it. Plus, architectural scholar Soon-Tzu Speechley on Malaysia and Singapore's 'creole' classical architecture; Annie Smithers on fruit mince and pudding; and a look at how one person's empathy revolutionised agricultural design… then we're off to Bath.

Plus, pay a visit to the Albi Cathedral with Colin Bisset before riding the Hallyu wave to Seoul on this week's Lost and Found.

Plus, hear Colin Bisset on iconic garden designer Lawrence Johnston.

Join chef and former librarian Stephanie Alexander in a wide-ranging discussion about the joys of home cooking. Plus, urban scholar Kim Dovey tells us what the study of informal urbanism can say about the crowd in a time of crisis; a dispatch from South Australia's Nature Festival; and Colin Bisset gets chintzy. Then, a trip to one of America's beguiling states, Florida.

What design interventions do we need to improve our indoor air quality? Plus, Annie Smithers on kitchen gadgets and tools, Sean Dooley gives us the word about the birds, and Colin Bisset traces the origins of white goods. Then escape to the world's most enchanting bookshops.