Open City
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<p>Open City is a charity dedicated to making architecture and built heritage more open, accessible and equitable.</p><br><p>Providing you with essential listening, inspiring voices and built environment insights – the <u>Open City Podcast</u> covers news and current events as well as in depth studies of landmark buildings, and cities around the UK and world.</p><br><p>At the centre of our line-up is our flagship show <u>The Brief</u> – an award-winning review of the big stories in architecture, planning and housing news – hosted by Sahiba Chadha and Fran Williams on a fortnightly basis.</p><br><p>Alongside this is <u>Deconstructed</u> – a monthly podcast hosted by Matthew Lloyd Roberts taking apart the architecture of individual buildings and <a href="https://shows.acast.com/opencity/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">InterCities</a> – a monthly podcast hosted by Owen Hatherley exploring municipal transformation around the world. </p><br><p>All three shows profile new, expert and diverse voices from across industry, journalism, academia and beyond. The Open City Podcast is produced by Hunter Charlton and Paige Reynolds. The commissioning editor is Merlin Fulcher. </p><br><p>The Open City Podcast is supported by <a href="https://www.bloombergconnects.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bloomberg Connects</a>, the free arts and culture platform and produced in association with the Architects’ Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in <a href="https://designdistrict.co.uk/for-you/hot-desk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bureau</a>. </p><br><p>To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please <a href="https://opencity.squarespace.com/friends" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">become an Open City Friend</a>.</p><br><p>Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 11, 2026
Deconstructed: Leighton House - Art and Orientalism
<p>In this episode Matthew Lloyd Roberts was joined by Hannah Lund, Curator of Exhibitions and Displays at Leighton House and Sambourne House. Leighton House was built in Kensington by the Frederic Leighton, a painter, sculptor and president of the Royal Academy famed during the reign of Queen Victoria who vanished into relative obscurity during the 20th century. His house was an important place to create and exhibit his paintings, with a double height studio lit by north facing windows for the vast canvasses on which he worked. </p><br><p>Fascinated by the material culture of the Islamic world, he created his ‘Arab Hall’, tiling a domed extension to his house with West Asian ceramics gathered on a trip to Damascus. In this episode we discussed Leighton House, Victorian interest in Arabian culture, and the new curatorial interventions being made this year to mark the centenary of the house as a public museum run by the local authority, with new commissions from artists which query the meaning of such spaces their original context and to us today.</p><br><p>The podcast is produced in association with the Architects’ Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. It's recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in <a href="https://designdistrict.co.uk/for-you/hot-desk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bureau</a>. Subscribe on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/35kdEOFJVd6SLThbfbcBPK?si=ztibrCW_QcGiB4M9oc_pXg&nd=1&dlsi=ce6b980a91c54663" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/open-city-london" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> or <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/open-city/id1527736968" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">iTunes</a> and to further support, <a href="https://open-city.org.uk/friends" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">become an Open City Friend</a>.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
May 28, 2026
Deconstructed: Grosvenor Square - Protest and the State
<p>In this episode Matthew Lloyd Roberts was joined by the historian Katrina Navickas to discuss the history of Grosvenor Square in Mayfair as a site of protest and policing. From the early twentieth century the square was home to the US Embassy, and it was the site of several protests against American foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War in 1968. The policing of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign led to the first CCTV system in the UK being erected in the square. The Embassy building itself, designed by Eero Saarinen, became a potent symbol of American power in London, but more recently the Embassy has moved to a more secure location in Nine Elms.</p><br><p>Katrina Navickas is Professor of History at the University of Hertfordshire. Her latest book is Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England (Reaktion Books, 2025). She contributed the ‘Croydon’ chapter to Owen Hatherley’s The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs (Open House London, 2020), and also the Croydon guide for the Open City Pocket London maps. She is also a founding member of the Rural Modernism network.</p><br><p>The podcast is produced in association with the Architects’ Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. It's recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in <a href="https://designdistrict.co.uk/for-you/hot-desk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bureau</a>. Subscribe on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/35kdEOFJVd6SLThbfbcBPK?si=ztibrCW_QcGiB4M9oc_pXg&nd=1&dlsi=ce6b980a91c54663" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/open-city-london" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> or <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/open-city/id1527736968" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">iTunes</a> and to further support, <a href="https://open-city.org.uk/friends" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">become an Open City Friend</a>.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
May 7, 2026
The Home That Made Me: 1 Plot, 3 Families
In this episode Fiona Chilton is joined by Miriam, who lives in rural Devon in a home that she bought together with two other households so that they could raise their families side by side. But the dream was more challenging in reality as they tackled the practicalities of dividing land, buildings and responsibilities fairly between them. It’s a story of a dream becoming a reality, but also of the trade-off between city and country and the quest to combine the joy of wide-open space with the intimacy of a neighbourhood. Is it possible to have both?<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is Open City?
<p>Open City is a charity dedicated to making architecture and built heritage more open, accessible and equitable.</p><br><p>Providing you with essential listening, inspiring voices and built environment insights – the <u>Open City Podcast</u> covers news and current events as well as in depth studies of landmark buildings, and cities around the UK and world.</p><br><p>At the centre of our line-up is our flagship show <u>The Brief</u> – an award-winning review of the big stories in architecture, planning and housing news – hosted by Sahiba Chadha and Fran Williams on a fortnightly basis.</p><br><p>Alongside this is <u>Deconstructed</u> – a monthly podcast hosted by Matthew Lloyd Roberts taking apart the architecture of individual buildings and <a href="https://shows.acast.com/opencity/episodes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">InterCities</a> – a monthly podcast hosted by Owen Hatherley exploring municipal transformation around the world. </p><br><p>All three shows profile new, expert and diverse voices from across industry, journalism, academia and beyond. The Open City Podcast is produced by Hunter Charlton and Paige Reynolds. The commissioning editor is Merlin Fulcher. </p><br><p>The Open City Podcast is supported by <a href="https://www.bloombergconnects.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bloomberg Connects</a>, the free arts and culture platform and produced in association with the Architects’ Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in <a href="https://designdistrict.co.uk/for-you/hot-desk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bureau</a>. </p><br><p>To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please <a href="https://opencity.squarespace.com/friends" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">become an Open City Friend</a>.</p><br><p>Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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