Lost and Found: Recent Episodes
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Each week we discover a new city or neighbourhood somewhere in the world via its architecture, food, gardens, art, literature and cultural history.
Belfast is kaleidoscopic — a product born out of contested histories and the desire to break free from it. As Northern Ireland commemorates 100 years since partition, take a journey through a city that is shedding its historical sectarian binaries.
To the outsider, 'Florida' evokes a certain kind of hot, swampy and technicolour Americana — a particular kind of heat-warped American eccentricity with added canasta. But what is the place really like?
Take a tour of Canada's largest and most multicultural city via it's underground walkways, it's myriad of restaurants and a Toronto Raptors home game.
A country rich in biodiversity, a festival for every saint and 16 different types of avocado: come on a journey to Costa Rica.
Behind the cosmopolitan, dynamic, and fashion-filled city of Milan lies a long and rich history. Down your aperitivo, hop on the underground train and take a tour around this grand Italian city.
Beautiful beaches, ideal surfing conditions, national parks and plenty of sunshine; it's not hard to see why Byron Bay attracts everyone from holiday makers to social media influencers, to the global film industry.
Take a trip to South Auckland, a city within a city; it's geographical lines drawn by greater Auckland's collective imaginary (allowing a glimpse of how one might come to understand race relations in New Zealand).
The Philippines is a melange of Austronesian, Spanish, Chinese, and American histories which have their focal point in the capital, Manila. But to really see Manila as it is now, throw out everything you've been told… because it's time to head to the mall.
Christmas in the city… well, a city emerging from six lockdowns. Join Jonathan as he takes a stroll through the spine of central Melbourne decked out in full Christmas garb, with a few street Santas mixed in for good measure.
It's a global tourist mecca, drawing in visitors to its Wes Anderson-like dreamscape of pastel-coloured row houses, quaint lemon yellow trams, and cobblestone streets cascading down to a glittering river mouth. But dig a little deeper, and you'll find the darker histories beneath Lisbon's bright veneer.
Pop on your walking shoes and head out to discover the wealth of art, architecture, cuisines, and histories that reside in this seductively chaotic city… as well as the razed metropolis beneath it.
A journey to the Lithuanian capital featuring a visit to Vilnius' last remaining synagogue and a day trip to a Soviet theme park.
Contrary to what we see, there is plenty of life to be found in an urban cemetery – especially where trees and plants are concerned.
Tuck into a brioche-style Sally Lunn bun, admire Palladian and neoclassical Georgian architecture, and retrace the footsteps of a 25 year old Jane Austen to the Pump Room.
If you're a fan of time travel, Seoul might be the city for you. It's a bustling, futuristic metropolis that retains a strong and deep sense of history.
Too often obscured by news headlines and stereotypes, it's time to get to know the vast urban expanse that is Western Sydney.
To the outsider, 'Florida' evokes a certain kind of hot, swampy and technicolour Americana — a particular kind of heat-warped American eccentricity with added canasta. But what is the place really like?
It's time to go on a journey of the mind around the world via the bookstore. For our second and final edition, let some new and old friends whisk you around New York, Maastricht and Chandigarh.
It's time to go on a journey of the mind around the world via the places that are the ultimate conduits for escape — the bookstore. In part one of two, discover Wales' 'town of books', and Juliana Engberg's bibliophile guide to London and Paris.
Belfast is kaleidoscopic — a product born out of contested histories and the desire to break free from it. As Northern Ireland commemorates 100 years since partition, take a journey through a city that is shedding its historical sectarian binaries.
Come on an urban tramp, in search of enchantment, to discover the industrial city anew.
The Philippines is a melange of Austronesian, Spanish, Chinese, and American histories which have their focal point in the capital, Manila. But to really see Manila as it is now, throw out everything you've been told… because it's time to head to the mall.
Hop on board one of the best transit systems in the world and arrive on time to enjoy hot pot, oyster omelettes and braised pork over rice; before taking in the culturally eclectic sites that make up Taiwan's capital.
Our travel bubble with New Zealand might be closed for now (thanks, Delta variant) but it doesn't mean we can't plan for the future.
Urban music… it's a London thing. From grime to garage, to drum & bass, the city itself has been instrumental in incubating these rich musical cultures. Take a trip through the council estates, radio stations, and social histories that made this happen.
From the Ruin Bar to Budapest's spectacular thermal bath houses, Bela Lajta's proto-deco Parisiana nightclub to Bartok's transformational impact on 20th century music, we take a mind journey through the Hungarian capital.
Victoria's tallest summit is Mount Bogong, a place of dazzling beauty nestled in the Great Dividing Range on Yaithmathang country. Jonathan Green takes you on an icy journey up the mountain.
Beautiful beaches, ideal surfing conditions, national parks and plenty of sunshine; it's not hard to see why Byron Bay attracts everyone from holiday makers to social media influencers, to the global film industry.
Behind the cosmopolitan, dynamic, and fashion-filled city of Milan lies a long and rich history. Down your aperitivo, hop on the underground train and take a tour around this grand Italian city.
Gamilaraay man and ABC Top 5 Arts residential scholar Beau de Belle brings us along on a visit to the house of his mentor and friend, the revered architect Richard Leplastrier.
Arid dessert air, plunging temperatures at night, bright white light and framed by multiple mountain ranges: Xinjiang is the kind of place that inspires poetry, music and delicious food.
A country rich in biodiversity, a festival for every saint and 16 different types of avocado: come on a journey to Costa Rica.
Come on a mind journey through the 'unloved capital' to discover Berlin's rough charm, it's currywurst, its art and the unavoidable weight of it's history.
Turn a 'queer eye' to Victoria's capital city on a walking tour with historian Graham Willett.
A journey to an ancient city marked by both beauty and ugliness, where intractable allegiances, passions and pasts collide.
A journey to the Lithuanian capital featuring a visit to Vilnius' last remaining synagogue and a day trip to a Soviet theme park.
In anticipation of Australian football's return, journey to the MCG, a centuries old meeting place with many stories to tell.
A city of beauty, inwardness, and relentless, driving rain from which emerged Neo-Fjordic cuisine, Karl Ove Knausgård and with him a great literary renaissance.
Take a tour of Canada's largest and most multicultural city via it's underground walkways, it's myriad of restaurants and a Toronto Raptors home game.
Come on an urban tramp, in search of enchantment, to discover the industrial city anew.
Take a trip to South Auckland, a city within a city; it's geographical lines drawn by greater Auckland's collective imaginary (allowing a glimpse of how one might come to understand race relations in Aotearoa).
A journey through the ancient Italian capital - from the Spanish Steps to the Villa Sciarra - through the eyes of the poets.
Our Danish journey takes a dark turn with a focus on dismemberment, watery death, rogue detectives and a trip across the Øresund Bridge.
We discover the joys of Smørrebrød, rail against the Noma-inspired culinary trend of muscle reduction, indulge in a hygge polemic and visit and expressionist church.
Willows, green grass, craft beer, arts festivals and the crispest air - come on a mind journey to Ōtautahi.
Come on a mind journey to Canberra's great not-so-natural wonder, Lake Burley Griffin, featuring carp, politics and a surprise stopover in Lucknow, India.
Step into the icy wilderness and come on a tour of the Icelandic capital, featuring cardamom pastries, hot springs and a visit to the phallological museum.
These days the Austrian capital is widely known as the world's most liveable city. But in the cosy, domesticity of that term, 'liveability', there's no hint of the drama of Vienna's cultural past.
Come on a mind journey to Brixton, an bustling intersection where diversity, community, gentrification, house music and calypso collide.
Has there ever been a better time to learn about this place, our home; about country, connection, the stories of the land and its people?
Come on a culinary journey through Montreal, from the world's greatest bagels to maple whiskey, via Leonard Cohen's favourite steak house.
Golf courses have become sites of contest, where urgent questions around public space, environmental protection and community in rapidly growing cities are being played out.
From food court dumplings to rooftop martinis, Alhambra to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.
From farmers markets to taco trucks, Bel Air to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.
In Napoli beside the sea, under the dormant eye of Mt. Vesuvius, a bustling hub of culture awaits.
Grab your reef-friendly sunblock, your towel, your beach book and find a place on the sand of Sydney's most iconic beach.
Occupied power stations, community gardens, squats and cooperatives - a journey through a city unique for its unwavering collective commitment to open public space.
A journey to an ancient city marked by both beauty and ugliness, where intractable allegiances, passions and pasts collide.
A mind journey to a landscape of sky and water, bubbling reefs and delicious food shared generously.
Ornate doors, relentless rain and a rich literary heritage, we take a mind journey to the beautiful city of Galway.
A city of beauty, inwardness, and relentless, driving rain from which emerged Neo-Fjordic cuisine, Karl Ove Knausgård and with him a great literary renaissance.
Eat, cycle, repeat as Sporty's Amanda Smith joins Jonathan Green on a journey of the mind to a European summer.
Richard Fidler takes us on a tour of Prague and reveals the unsettling beauty in the city's hundred spires and cobbled streets, baroque domes and Gothic steeples, its golems, its violent history and its alchemy.
Learn the true meaning of Aloha, deepen your appreciation of the ukulele and take a detour to some of Oahu's most significant cultural places.
Quiet darkness, modernist delights and all the herring - a mind journey into the cosmopolitan Finnish capital.
Hop on a pink bus named Priscilla, turn up the music and look out the window at beautiful Wilyakali country in this week's journey to Broken Hill.
Just days before Melbourne went into Stage Four lockdown, Jonathan drove to meet Tim Entwisle for a walk through Cranbourne Gardens
This week, a journey in space and time to the place the Lenape called, Mannahatta, a lush forest and complex ecosystem onto which the modern metropolis of Manhattan was superimposed.
Come on a mind journey to Brixton, an bustling intersection where diversity, community, gentrification, house music and calypso collide.
Inhale incense, dodge scooters, and devour a bowl of Pho in the Vietnamese capital where Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, communism, remnants of French colonialism, Chinese occupation and American imperialism collide.
Come on a mind journey to Canberra's great not-so-natural wonder, Lake Burley Griffin, featuring carp, politics and a surprise stopover in Lucknow, India.
Step into the icy wilderness and come on a tour of the Icelandic capital, featuring cardamom pastries, hot springs and a visit to the phallological museum.
From Dada to raclette, lake swimming to Le Corbusier, we take a mind journey through Switzerland's largest city.
Architecture critic for the New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, gives us a virtual tour of the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of a great metropolis and the promise of modern urban life.
A mind journey to a famously wild and beautiful place, whose story has largely been shaped by outsiders.
A mind journey to the birth place of American ideas of liberty and tyranny, featuring Henry James, clams, a brutalist masterpiece and a cream pie that is, in fact, a cake.
From the outrageous street-styles of Harajuku to Le Corbusier's concrete legacy, we take you on a journey through the thrilling metropolis of Tokyo.
From poffertjes to Rembrandt, stroopwafels, sex and tulips - we take a mind journey through the Dutch capital.
White sand, blue water and an ecosystem in trouble; we take a journey to Australia's great natural wonder.
A journey into the heart of the deserted city to discover what remains in our "empty" urban spaces.
Hear Phoebe Preuss tell Jonathan a story of place, connection, memories of home... starting with a cacao bean.
The world's highest mountain has long occupied a powerful place in our collective imagination; we talk to a climber who recently reached the summit.
Come on a mind journey through the 'unloved capital' to discover Berlin's rough charm, its currywurst, its art and the unavoidable weight of its history.
Come on a culinary journey through Montreal, from the world's greatest bagels to maple whiskey, via Leonard Cohen's favourite steak house.
A mind journey to Russia's megacity, a place rich in contradiction, contrast, diversity, where symbols, buildings and monuments are destroyed and rebuilt, each time telling a new story about Russia, each time leaving a trace of what came before.
Willows, green grass, craft beer, arts festivals and the crispest air - come on a mind journey to Ōtautahi.
Inhale incense, dodge scooters, and devour a bowl of Pho in the Vietnamese capital where Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, communism, remnants of French colonialism, Chinese occupation and American imperialism collide.
These days the Austrian capital is widely known as the world's most liveable city. But in the cosy, domesticity of that term, 'liveability', there's no hint of the drama of Vienna's cultural past.
A mind journey to the sprawling Californian centre of wealth, techno utopianism, self-optimisation and exemplar of the contradictions and excesses of 21st century urban life.
Megacity of 30 million people, culturally rich, rapidly sinking, we take a tour of the frenetic, thrilling Indonesian metropolis.
An tour of the cultural, intellectual and architectural delights of the city once described as "the antidote to the rest of the world".
Joel Rheinberger is joined by architect Leigh Woolley for a tour of Hobart's Dorney House.
Architecture historian Don Watson takes Jonathan on a tour of the Riverside Expressway and the Archerfield Second World War Igloos Complex.
Take a tour of St Mary's Star of the Sea War Memorial Cathedral. Plus, a conversation about modernism in Darwin post Cyclone Tracy.
Joanna Trilling visits Perth's Council House, designed by architects Jeffrey Howlett and Don Bailey.
This week Jonathan takes a walk through the University of Adelaide's Union Building, designed by architects Dickson and Platten.
From its liberal use of brick in apartments and public housing, to the architect-designed display homes of Pettit and Sevitt, to the Sydney Opera House, modernist architecture has literally shaped the city of Sydney.
"No city has been as profoundly influenced by its rocky foundation as Sydney" – Tim Flannery, The Sandstone City.
Beginning at the edges of the river at Kurilpa point, we make our way over the bridge and look beyond to the rest of Meanjin, Brisbane.
From graffitied laneways to it's ancient Indigenous uses, bluestone has long shaped the city of Melbourne.
From blonde to ginger, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, we delve into the vivid world of colour.
From fake brick veneer to Sweden's replica Harlem, counterfeit couture to slightly browning fake plants, we delve into the world of fakery and illusion.
From the Ruin Bar to Budapest's spectacular thermal bath houses, Bela Lajta's proto-deco Parisiana nightclub to Bartok's transformational impact on 20th century music, we take a mind journey through the Hungarian capital.
A remarkable discovery of 4,500 year-old Egyptian yeast, the irrationality of the sky scraper, cloning ancient redwoods and the surprising history of the high heel.
The story of one of Australia's greatest architects whose seminal critique of "the Australian ugliness" continues to have profound resonance.
From the outrageous street-styles of Harajuku to Le Corbusier's concrete legacy, we take you on a journey through the thrilling metropolis of Tokyo.
Cladding, clothing, tree bark and crispy duck: a revealing journey through many layers of skin.
The world's highest mountain has long occupied a powerful place in our collective imagination; we talk to a climber who recently reached the summit.
How has surveillance in todays global cities transformed urban life and what are the possibilities for privacy in the digital age?
A chilling meditation on our rapidly disappearing frozen world, from Sicilian granita to the architecture of the snow cave.
In Napoli beside the sea, under the dormant eye of Mt. Vesuvius, a bustling hub of culture awaits.
From 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.
From the aeration that make a perfect chocolate mousse to the housing bubble and its architectural symptoms, we explore the ethereal world of bubbles.
From blonde to ginger, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, we delve into the vivid world of colour.
What do worms, feta cheese, tubers and archers have in common? It will all be uncovered.
What 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?
Urban blues, iconic chocolate bars and some of the 20th century's most spectacular architecture: we travel to one of America's last great cities.
A 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.
We explore the voracious public appetite for decluttering and the cultural anxieties that tidying and detoxing claim to cure.
A tasting menu of the seven deadly sins, from the sandwich that undid Elvis to pineapple envy and a very lusty lamprey.
From the Acqua Alta bookshop to the Rialto fish market, we revel in the sublime beauty of Venice.
From a furniture maker's workshop to the Barmah National Park, we take a tour of these ancient wonders.
From the sweet Greek Easter bread tsoureki to chocolate eggs, simnel cake and gefilte fish we explore symbols, ritual and tradition.
A study of ruin, from renaissance paintings, littered with Greco-Roman ruins to contemporary photographs of dilapidated Detroit.
We don our black stretchy pants, get our 10,000 steps and try to make sense of our exercise fetish.
A series tracing the ancient places onto which our modern cities have been transplanted; this week a journey to Canberra.
From 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.
From 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.
From hues of decay to golden autumnal light, denim jackets to slow braises, we bask in the most melancholy and beautiful of seasons.
From 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.
The 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?
Quiet darkness, modernist delights and all the herring - a mind journey into the cosmopolitan Finnish capital.
From overly-engineered lunchboxes to appropriate workplace attire, we delve into the grim world of the modern office.
The life and death of the Australian dream, the night-time antics of the giant water lily and why brie gives you nightmares.