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Saturday 24 May 2003
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• Recycling Plant
  Individual architects get a lot of attention when they design landmark cultural buildings, such as the Sydney Opera House or the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The reality, however, is that most of the buildings that occupy cities are much more prosaic, often utilitarian buildings. But are these buildings, whether they be an electricity substation, a bus depot, a parking station or a call centre, any less deserving of good design?
• Deyan Sudjic & the City
  Deyan Sudjic is the editor of Domus, the architectural magazine published in Italy and he's also architecture critic for The Guardian newspaper in the UK, which means that he commutes between Miland and London.
• Food Series - African Food
  In the second in our series about cuisines that you might not be familiar with, we're looking at several cuisines because we're going to the continent of Africa. And we'll also look at how African food has been changed or stayed remarkably similar in the countries of the African Diaspora. Dorinda Hafner, celebrated cook and teacher has written a cookbook "Taste of Africa" that takes the reader on a culinary tour not just of Africa but also of the Caribbean, Louisiana and parts of South America too - wherever African food has taken root.
• Re-Imagining Utopia
  Ever wondered what it’s like to be part of an intentional community, to start a new life with a group of people by living in the same place, sharing a common vision and working towards realising it? Radio National online is giving you the opportunity to be part of a virtual, alternative community, all from the comfort of your computer.

Saturday 17 May 2003
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• Design Awards & James Dyson
  Details of the 2003 Australian Design Awards plus the Dyson Student Award precede a conversation with James Dyson, the British designer and inventor of the renowned Dyson vacuum cleaner.
• Walking Track Design
  The walking tracks we follow through national parks and wilderness areas are often taken for granted. Perhaps that's part of their success. They merge so well with the landscape that we can easily forget that they're man-made and that considerable thought has sometimes been given to the challenge of designing and constructing a pathway into the most sensitive wilderness without any signficiant harm to that environment.
• Road Kill
  Along the roads of Australia - whether you're in the city, on a highway or on a country track - you can always find dead animals that decay over months and give life to a multitude of insects. But what would it be like if, rather than driving on by, we saw the animal as a source of meat and stopped to pick the road kill up for dinner. Tom Samek, an artist and chef who lives in Tasmania, talks about his experiences of cooking and eating unusual foods, including road kill.
• Car memories
  The time is the sixties, the family's out for a drive and what are they going to eat on the trip. Novelist, Beth Spencer remembers frosty anodised glasses; impressions in the opened door of the glove box (of the HK Holden) to hold a mug of tea; packed lunches eaten on the roadside and the development of the Roadhouse.

Saturday 10 May 2003
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• DesignEX
  Alan Saunders hosted a discussion at DesignEX at the Melbounre Exhibition and Convention Centre. The theme of the discussion was, Designing for the Client: Style versus Fashion. So we ask how a design is conceived? Is it the result of the designer's own style? Is it based on the fashion of the times? Or does it emerge organically out of function? A panel of emerging architects and designers discuss these ideas: Robert Backhouse, interior designer with the firm Hassell; Zahava Elenberg from Elenberg Fraser, architects; and two designers from the graphic design firm Fabio Ongarato Design: Fabio Ongarato and Ronnen Goren.
• Sicilian Food
  The first in a short and occasional series about cuisines from around the world that you might not be familiar with but which deserve to be better known. This week we go to the toe of Italy and then offshore to Sicily. Fabio Guiffre is a young chef and restaurateur who wants to export the food of his native Sicily to the rest of the world, and he's been doing so lately in this country.
• Music - Sicily
  
• Music - Design
  

Saturday 3 May 2003
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• Amish houses
  The Amish are the theological descendants of the German-speaking followers of the Protestant reformer Jacob Ammann. The first of them to come to America arrived int he late seventeenth century and settled in Pennsylvania. They're famous for dressing soberly and living simply, eschewing electricity and motor vehicles, but the Amish are skilled builders too and they've developed a distinctive architectural style in their homesteads and barns. We talk to Stephen Scott, who is a member of the Old Order River Brethren, a group related to the Amish communities, and he's written extensively on matters Amish.
• Measuring America
  We look at the landscape of the United States of America which is square: the cities are square, the farms are square, even some of the states are square. We learn how an invention of a sixteenth century English mathematician continues to exert an influence on the American landscape. And this relentless rectilinearity is the subject of a fascinating book called "Measuring America".
• Whitebread Protestants
  It's no secret that Americans like to eat or that they are a religious people (they have one of the highest rates of church attendance in the world). Now, of course, there are foods that are essential to Christian worship: the bread broken and the wine drunk at communion. But there's more to it than that. The sharing of food outside the church service has been important in the development of the Protestant church in America and for the building and shaping of its communities. We talk to Daniel Sack about the connection between food and religion in America.

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