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By: David Taylor
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Commute-sized conversations with host David Taylor and guests exploring the built environment, cities, design and more

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Episodes
  • Detailer 38 - Pete Swift
    Dec 12 2025
    David travels to Manchester's Mayfield project to catch up with landscape architect Pete Swift and chew the fat about 'Cyan Lines' and all things blue/green infrastructure, designing stadia including Everton's astonishing new home (even as a Red), keeping tradition and heritage alive, growing up against the background of the Toxteth riots, and the mindfulness that comes from riding his bike...

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    51 mins
  • Detailer 37 - Xavier Brice
    Nov 28 2025
    David catches up with Xavier Brice, CEO of the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, to discuss his role in creating London's cycle superhighways, road pricing, post-Budget, LTNs, building better cycling provision, the cautionary tale of Paris' experience, trains, trans, getting busy-mind-relief through riding long distance...and crashing into stray badgers

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    49 mins
  • Detailer 36 - Arthur Kay
    Nov 14 2025
    David catches up with Arthur Kay, co-author of 'Roadkilll - unveiling the true cost of our toxic relationship with cars', to discuss the rise of the motor car, the sleight of hand and environmental problem that is the electric version, the philosophy of the good life, the keys to better-designed cities, horrific statistics on Halloween child deaths - and being a serial entrepreneur on the back of a business built on the waste from coffee beans...

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    55 mins
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