Episodes

  • Tall Stories 501: How does Taipei 101 stay standing? It’s what’s inside that counts
    Mar 23 2026

    Clarissa Wei climbs Taiwan’s best-known tower to investigate the clever engineering that keeps it in the sky.

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    7 mins
  • Tall Stories 250: UN headquarters, New York
    Mar 29 2021
    Christopher Cermak charts his journey from model UN to reporting on the real thing and explains what the organisation’s New York HQ means to the city. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    6 mins
  • More from the world’s leading real estate event – Mipim
    Mar 19 2026

    We reflect on Mipim conversations with the executive director of UN Habitat, as well as representatives from the New York City Housing Authority, Miami-Dade Beacon Council and ING Media.

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    30 mins
  • Tall Stories 500: Shadows of Errol Flynn in Mallorca
    Mar 16 2026

    Andrew Tuck goes searching for the remains of the home of a 1930s Hollywood star in Mallorca’s Bay of Palma.

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    6 mins
  • Meet the mayors at Mipim, the world’s leading real-estate event
    Mar 12 2026

    We report from the world’s leading real estate event, Mipim. Here we meet mayors from Turku to Genoa and Lisbon to Rome who are putting their city’s best foot forward to drive investment.

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    45 mins
  • Tall Stories 499
    Mar 9 2026

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    7 mins
  • Balancing security and aesthetic appeal in Oslo’s New Government Quarter
    Mar 5 2026

    We visit Oslo to see the New Government Quarter, which has transformed the site of the city’s 2011 terrorist attacks into an open, civic space. Then: we explore the new Louise Tower on Brussels’s iconic Avenue Louise.

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    31 mins
  • Tall Stories 498: The many faces of the Maritime Hotel in New York
    Mar 2 2026

    Paul Logothetis takes us to a hotel in Manhattan that has been transforming since its construction in the 1960s.

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    6 mins