Charlene Prempeh: Why More Space Isn’t the Key to a Happier Home
Matt Gibberd visits writer and creative consultant Charlene Prempeh at her home in North London. Charlene is the founder of A Vibe Called Te...
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The Modern House Podcast
On The Modern House Podcast we ask guests to pick their three favourite homes from anywhere in the world; anything from a Modernist masterpiece to a ramshackle hut in a field. We talk to arc...
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Lemn Sissay: What Happens When Home Rejects You?
Lemn Sissay is a poet, playwright and broadcaster. Few people have thought more deeply about the meaning of home than Lemn. As a baby, Lemn...
Anna Jones: Why Home Is an Act of Care
Anna Jones is a cook, food writer, and one of the leading voices in modern vegetarian cooking. For Anna, making food for someone is the ulti...
Martha Beck: What Happens When Home Isn’t Safe?
Martha Beck is a sociologist, bestselling author and one of the world’s leading life coaches. She grew up in the Mormon community in Utah, i...
Jinny Blom: Why We All Need Somewhere to Hide
Jinny Blom is one of Britain's leading landscape designers. She has created over 700 gardens – and each one begins, in some way, with a sear...
Poet Jackie Kay on Adoption, Identity and the Long Search for Belonging
Jackie Kay is an acclaimed poet and novelist, who was previously the national poet of Scotland – a role known as the Makar. She’s the author...
Phin Harper: How a Breakup Helped Me Find Home
Architecture critic and writer Phineas Harper believes that good design and heritage belong to all of us. Phin lives on Vanbrugh Park, a pos...
Why Comfort Isn't Always Good for Us | With Architect Stefan Behling
Does modern design shelter us, or is it cutting us off from the world? Architect Stefan Behling believes that many of today's buildings have...
Architect Sophie Hicks on being an 80s cover girl, and why every object should have a purpose
Sophie Hicks has helped fashion brands like Paul Smith, Yohji Yamamoto and Acne Studios translate their vision into built form. But before b...
Johann Hari: How to Find Connection in a Lonely World
Loneliness, anxiety and a loss of belonging are among the defining crises of our time. Johann Hari believes they share a common cause. Johan...
Chef Margot Henderson on Home, Food & Caring for Fergus
Margot Henderson is one of Britain's most influential chefs, and a pioneer of “nose-to-tail” cooking. She's spent her career finding value i...
Can a Home Help You Heal? – With Psychotherapist Julia Samuel MBE
Today's guest is psychotherapist Julia Samuel MBE, one of Britain's leading experts on grief and trauma. Julia has worked with hundreds of f...
Patrick Williams on Grief, Restoration and the House That Shaped His Life
Patrick Williams is an interior decorator who specialises in period buildings and restoration projects. He views design not just as decorati...
Can Your Home Make You Healthier? – With Dr. Esther Sternberg
Should the home be considered one of the pillars of health? Dr. Esther Sternberg believes good design can heal us — and that architects shou...
David Shrigley on Anxiety, Absurdity & Ageing Disgracefully
David Shrigley has spent his life creating art that makes people laugh. He is one of Britain’s most recognisable contemporary artists, celeb...
Can a Prison Ever Feel Like Home? – with Professor Yvonne Jewkes
The spaces we inhabit shape who we become. But what does that mean for the people who have no choice where they live? Yvonne Jewkes is a pro...
Sue Stuart-Smith on Nature, Childhood & The Garden as Medicine
Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, gardener and the author of The Well-Gardened Mind . She has spent her career making the case that going...
Why Doesn’t Where You Live Feel Like Home? — with Urban Designer David Engwicht
We tend to think of home as the space inside our four walls. But for David Engwicht, home doesn't stop at the front door – it extends out in...
Sue Webster on Punk, The Mole House & The Art of Non-Conformity
Artist Sue Webster built a career and a home by refusing to fit in — it’s why she identifies with the Mole Man so much. She found fame along...
Do We Really Need More Stuff? — with Japanese Architect Takero Shimazaki
Most of us think we need more — more space, more things, more possessions. Japanese architect Takero Shimazaki believes we may already have...