1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. He's the man who made us 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: fall in love with architecture. He's an award winning broadcaster, 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: an author and environmentalist, an amateur balloonist. He's been hosting 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: that iconic show Grand Designs for over two decades, and 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: he's coming to Australia for a live tour. Kevin McLeod, 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: Hello here he is. 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 2: Hello, Hello. 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: We just had Paul McCartney in town. Are you going 9 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: to be doing something similar with pyrotechnics and incredible audio visuals? 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 2: No? I mean yes, but not in the same league. 11 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 3: Come on. 12 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: Yes, he was a bit of a literally a hard actor. 13 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,279 Speaker 3: That is a hard act to follow. Yeah, pretty much 14 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 3: out for a former Beatle. Yeah great. 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: But having said that, you know, you did introduce Middle Australia, 16 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: Middle America, Middle Europe to architecture after twenty years, Why 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: has this got such a cult following? Why are we 18 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: so invested? 19 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 2: Because we all do it? I mean, you know, I mean, 20 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 2: we all love music, we all love Some of us 21 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: love art or poetry or reading or sculpture. But these 22 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: are all art forms and cultural kind of things we 23 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: do which we have sort of choice over. We choose 24 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 2: to pick up a book and we choose to look 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 2: on YouTube. But whereas architecture is, it's around us all 26 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 2: the time. We don't have any choice. It's the background 27 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: to where we live. 28 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 3: I look at around the corner from my house. It's 29 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 3: a beautiful old a frame house and it's kind of 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 3: in practice impractical, but it's been there since I was 31 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 3: a boy, long before I was born, in fact, and 32 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: then recently they just knocked it down and there was 33 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 3: no protest, and they put up this sort of boxy 34 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 3: type unit thing, but there was no protest. There was 35 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 3: no one going sept for me going past. Oh, that's 36 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: a shame that that house has gone. Will there be 37 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 3: a time when an a frame house like that will 38 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 3: be heritage protected? Is there is? Yes? 39 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 2: Oh, come on and there. You know what you really 40 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 2: need is she need a major radio program and then 41 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: you could tell people get to perform some kind of 42 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: action group and get out there and create a conser 43 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 2: of society. I'm very aware that because when I grew 44 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: up and I in the nineteen seventies, I joined to 45 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: think all the Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings, which 46 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 2: is basically the Leavid Alone Club, and it was quite firebrand. 47 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 2: You know lots of people campaigning trying themselves to railings. 48 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 2: You know of churches saying do not destroy this, and 49 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: what the same their children now are campaigning for the preservation, 50 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 2: of course, of buildings from the seventies and eighties which 51 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 2: are under such threat. 52 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 3: You know. 53 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 2: And what we don't appreciate is that around us there 54 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: is such quality and we only really come to recognize 55 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: quality often when it's gone. 56 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: With Kevin's home truth, You're going to be taking questions 57 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: also from the audience. What is it that most people 58 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: want to know from your wealth of experience? 59 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: I haven't asked him yet, So that's my job is 60 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: to ask the audience on the night sort of what 61 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: they want to hear, but also to ask them. And 62 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: I thought what I'd do is get on your program 63 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 2: right three months before I'm doing this too. I can 64 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 2: put it in there to think of a question. 65 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 3: Welcome, what is a question you would like them to 66 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 3: ask you? Well, that that's easy, like what's one question? 67 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 2: Like easy questions? Yeah, easy questions, Just easy question, short 68 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 2: answers that are going to give a short answer to that. 69 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: I rehearse practice and. 70 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: What's your favorite why? 71 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 3: Oh? 72 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: And the answer to that is any. 73 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: And will the feature wall ever come back? Oh? 74 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: The feature wall? 75 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 3: Yeah? 76 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: Why not? That's very Do you know that's a really 77 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: really intelligent question. 78 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: There you go, Well that copyright me. 79 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: I also wanted to go, I'm gonna I'm going to 80 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: write it down. I'm going to put it in the 81 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 2: show and. 82 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 3: Then steal it. That's that's that's no, I'll credit you. 83 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: I'll credit you. You've got a land rather the runs 84 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: on vegetable. I'm always fascinated with that sort of stuff. 85 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 3: Is it true that it's smells like you're following a 86 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 3: fish and chip shop when you drive past. No? 87 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: No, So what's really interesting is that it smells more 88 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: of donuts. So it's a bit more it's a yeah, 89 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: it's a bit less salt and vinegar and a bit 90 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 2: less you know, unappealing, and a bit more Yeah yummy. 91 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 3: Because in Australia we have a term called donuts, but 92 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 3: it's a whole different thing when you're doing donuts in 93 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 3: a car with. 94 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: It on the track. We we we we use the 95 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 2: word for two meanings. So you say donuts donuts eat donuts? 96 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 2: Do donuts eat donuts? 97 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: If you had your car that smells of donuts. You'd 98 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: be followed by police and young children right throughout the city. 99 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit like the like you know, 100 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: Willy Wonka. It's enticing children into your donut laundry. 101 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: Let's not go. There's going to be a lot of questions, 102 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 3: but as. 103 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: I'm not going to be answering. 104 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 3: Those tickets to Kevin's Home Troops are on sale now 105 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 3: via ticket Kevin, it's great to talk to you again. 106 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's good fun. Are we doing this around 107 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: the planet. That's what I can't believe. I can see 108 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: you in your studio, you see me and we're having 109 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: a chat, and I think, I think it's wonderful. 110 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 3: And we've come in under budget, so this is great 111 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 3: for the first time. 112 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: Thank you, Kevin, Thank you Kevin. 113 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 2: Take care, Thanks so much. 114 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:26,119 Speaker 3: Bye.