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Big Design Adventure

Tim Ross & Kevin McCloud

Two mates, Tim Ross — comedian, broadcaster, and self-described design nerd — and Kevin McCloud — pundit, writer and celebrated host of Grand Designs — have teamed up for a new podcast: Tim and Kev’s Big Design Adventure. In this audio escapade, the architectural enthusiasts embark on a rollicking (and occasionally shambolic) journey, sharing their love of design by visiting buildings that inspire them, meeting the people who create or inhabit them, and diving deep

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Episode 13 - Questions

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2025/11/04

In answering all your burning questions, Kevin reveals his one-sided feud with Jay Kay from Jamiroquai. There are a few mea culpas along the way as we tackle your criticisms and wonder if design can save us in a world without the communal joy of watching shows like Sale of the Century. Oh, and we’ve got a HUGE announcement to make! You can check out Kev on Top Gear’s You Tube channel here: https://youtu.be/vpLq6rGwzpY?si=a4FOeL6cWGhP8A3b Simon sent us some wonderful links including:

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51:29

Episode 12 - The Service Station

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2025/10/28

In a semi-desperate attempt to find meaning in service station design, Tim and Kev head to Copenhagen to visit the famed filling station designed by Arne Jacobsen in the 1930s. A far-ranging conversation was recorded in front of the bowsers for your listening pleasure, and things may have gotten a little kooky. Also in this episode: find out how Sarah Jessica Parker has recently become a new fan. And make sure you tune in next week for a very special announcement. Arne Jacobsen’s 1937 petrol

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Episode 11 - Enter the Isokon

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2025/10/21

What happens when you mix modernism, espionage, and a few Bauhaus legends inone London apartment block? You get the Isokon Building. Tim and Kev head to North London to visit the legendary 1934 modernist icon designed by Wells Coates and developed by Jack and Molly Pritchard. Once home to Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Agatha Christie and a bunch of spies, Isokon was a radical experiment in minimalist living that has stood the test of time. You can find pictures and videos on our Instagram page -

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48:40

Episode 10 – Mid Century Modern Hollywood

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2025/10/14

Hooray for Mid Century Modern Hollywood! Tim and Kev are joined by Julie Berghoff,the Emmy Award–winning Production Designer for the hit Seth Rogen series TheStudio. How did she manage to secure those iconic homes as locations? How did Julie create aset that feels like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece? And will you stick around for Timand Kev’s Seth Rogen impersonations at the end? It’s a Mid Century Modern bonanza! You can find pictures and videos on our Instagram page -

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Episode 9 – Living In An Iconic New Zealand House

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2025/10/07

Can you imagine finding out online that your grandfather wanted you to live in his iconic house after he was gone? That’s what happened to Frances Martin, the granddaughter of legendary New Zealand ceramicists Bruce and Estelle Martin. Tim and Kev take a trip to Napier to visit the Martin House and chat with Frances about living in her 1960s John Scott home in Hawke’s Bay. This is a great New Zealand film about John Scott’s work that features the Martin House (which Kevin

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Episode 8 - Questions

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2025/09/30

Is it worth paying for an architect? Are pre fab houses a solution for the housingcrisis? What buildings should be demolished to build new homes? Just some ofyour questions we tackle in our very first question and answers episode. You can find pictures and videos on our Instagram page - @big_design_adventure And be sure to follow Tim Ross (@modernister) and Kevin McCloud (@kevin.mccloud1) We’d love to hear from you, reach out to us on hello@bigdesignadventure.com Know someone who would love

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42:30

Episode 7 - Cutlery Town

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2025/09/23

What’s the real story of the Splayd? Australia’s greatest contributions to eatingutensils…Tim has the answer. Then Kevin whisks us off to Sheffield to explorethe legacy of David Mellor, one of Britain’s finest designers, whose cutlery fromthe mid-century is still in production today. Yes, welcome to Cutlery Town. Invented in Sydney in 1943 by Bill McArthur, the Splayd combines the spoon,fork and knife and became one for the most popular wedding gifts in the 60s and70s. Kevin

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Episode 6 - Modernist Love

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2025/09/16

What’s the best way to save our 20th Century architecture? Tim and Kev travel to Manchester to meet the charasmatic Eddy Rhead, from The Modernist, part of a group who believed they’ve found the secret. The Modernist is a bookstore, publisher and exhibition space which is part of The Modernist Society, a Manchester organisation “dedicated to celebrating and engaging people with twentieth-century architecture and design through publishing, events, exhibitions, and creative

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49:56

Episode 5 - BONUS CHAT - Flying High.

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2025/09/11

In this very first bonus episode, Tim and Kevin continue their deep dive on the evolution of airplane design, revisit some of their favourite plane movies and hatch a plan about taking their own Spitfire and Harrier Jump Jet for a test flight. Tim and Kevin chat about a few movies during this episode includingThe V.I.P.s (1963)Mortadella (1971)The First of the Few (1942)The Dam Busters (1955)Battle of Britain (1969) Correction - Kevin mentioned a book by Matt White, but it is actually by his brother

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Episode 5 - Flying High

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2025/09/09

On a mid afternoon flight from Copenhagen to Heathrow, Tim and Kev pull out the microphones to discuss their favourite airplanes of all time, trade helicopter stories, reveal the worst plane food of all time…and a whole lot more. Plus this coming Friday they prove that there can never be enough jet fuel propelled plane talk when they unleash their very first bonus episode full of all the air chat that they couldn’t fit in the first episode. You can find pictures and videos on our

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Episode 4 - 24 Hours in Wrexham

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2025/09/02

Tim drags a reluctant Kevin to the Wrexham, the Welsh town that shot to fame when actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought their struggling football team in 2020. How has it really changed? They gave themselves 24 hours to find out. Wrexham, a historic market town in North Wales, was once best known for brewing and coal mining, with its football club, Wrexham AFC, quietly toiling away in the lower leagues since 1864. That changed in 2020 when Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney

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Episode Three - Thunderbirds Are Go!

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2025/08/26

Tim and Kev delve into the weird world of science fiction string puppets from the many iconic TV series produced by Gerry Anderson. From Thunderbirds to Space 1999, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and not forgetting UFO. Stand by for Supermarionation. For behind the scenes stories of Anderson’s work and how the puppets never could walk properly, visit the brilliant YouTube collection of Century 21 films here:www.century21films.co.uk Here’s an explanation of the Ondes Martenot, the early

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Episode Two - The Art of Living Closely

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2025/08/19

Tim and Kev head to London to explore a radical 1960s housing development where prospective residents must pass an interview before moving in. But will they make the cut? Winscombe Streetconsistsof five terrace houses inCamden, London, England, designed by the architectNeave Brownfor himself and a collective of four other families in the mid 1960s. For more details and original images from Winscombe, visit -

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Episode One - Rocking the Suburbs

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2025/08/12

To kick off the big design adventure, Kevin heads to the Sydney suburbs to visit Tim inhis 1950s modernist home. Plonking themselves at the table, they launch into a wide-ranging conversation covering the trials and tribulations of kitchen renovations, the follyof our before-and-after culture, and just how much Tim tidied up the house for Kev. To view images from this episode, head to our Instagram page @big_design_adventureAnd be sure to follow Tim Ross (@modernister) and Kevin McCloud

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