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Endangered birds, perfect duck, Bruce Pascoe's farm, bird bath design
We hear about an art project that is bringing endangered birds to life, learn about how to roast the perfect duck from Annie Smithers, visit Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood on their farm, and explore the design potential of the humble bird bath.
Published: with Jonathan Green
Cities and climate change, fashion illustrating, Annie Smithers on Elizabeth David
We explore the challenges facing our urban centres in a changing climate, learn about the art of fashion illustrating, and hear from Annie Smithers as she leafs through the meat chapter in Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cooking.
Published: with Jonathan Green
Real estate poetry, Ben Shewry's pasta Bolognese, communal kitchens, outdoor comforts
We explore the language of real estate, taste Ben Shewry's perfect pasta Bolognese, hear about the value of communal kitchens, and head outdoors for the final in Colin Bisset's home comforts.
Published: with Jonathan Green
Creating ice stumped many, until an Australian discovered a commercial fix
The cold chain process is a little understood part of our food supply chain. It changed how and what we eat today.
Published: by Fiona Pepper and Cathy Pryor
The simple solution to our obsession with clothes made from plastic
Synthetic textiles were once hailed as the future of fashion. Now, we all have to reckon with the consequences.
Published: by Anna Levy
Annie Smithers Kitchen Rudimental — cooks Elizabeth David – Gratin Dauphinois
This week, Elizabeth David directs her invective against soup, Annie Smithers mounts a soup-positive defence, and we settle for Gratin Dauphinois, because cream smothered potatoes is something everyone can get behind.
Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Annie Smithers' Kitchen Rudimental — Annie Smithers cooks Elizabeth David
In this series, Annie cooks her way through David’s seminal volume, French Provincial Cooking, starting with a simple mayonnaise.
Find more of Annie's past Kitchen Rudimentals here.
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Sense of Place: Nam Le, Iowa City and Provincetown
Nam Le, award winning author of The Boat, takes us to the two places that shaped him as a writer: under the vast sky and amidst the dramatic weather of Iowa City and a barn in Provincetown, against the howling wind of the North Atlantic, where he…
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Sense of Place: Nathan Thrall, Jerusalem
Journalist and author Nathan Thrall takes us to the city he calls the most divided in the world – his home city of Jerusalem; a place of segregated neighbourhoods, 26-foot tall concrete walls, of borders and checkpoints.
Duration: 22 minutes 45 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Sense of Place: Yanis Varoufakis, a borderless earth
Former finance minister of Greece and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis reflects on growing up in the shadow of the Parthenon, on his idyllic childhood and its contrast to the brutal political reality against which it was set, and the paradoxes of…
Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — In search of a cold Christmas
Despite his penchant for a white Christmas, Paul Bangay reflects on the consolations of Christmas in the Australian garden, reinforced by an insistent marsupial.
Find more of Paul's Garden Rudimentals on the ABC RN website.
Duration: 13 minutes 58 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — A life in garden design
Paul Bangay, garden designer, author of a new memoir, Paul Bangay – A Life In Garden Design, has almost four decades of experience and is renowned for his mastery of scale, balance, form and colour.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental — The garden in spring
Paul Bangay takes us on a tour of the garden in spring, featuring tulips, crab apples, apple blossoms, bay and the perennially neglected wallflowers.
Find more of Paul's Garden Rudimentals on the ABC RN website.
Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Living With Country: urban planning with Timmah Ball
Living With Country brings together a range of Indigenous Australians to reflect on land management and our built environment.
Duration: 20 minutes 56 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Living with Country — fire with Den Barber
Den Barber, a Wiradjuri man, ex-fire-fighter and park ranger, says it's time we reframed our fears about fire.
Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
Living with Country – archaeology with Maddison Miller
The notion of 'heritage' in Australia is most often associated with buildings erected in the years following colonisation. But how should we think about heritage when it comes to Country, and sites whose histories go back thousands of years?
Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds
Published: with Jonathan Green
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