Main content

'Play' in urban design, Gillian Allnutt

Philip Dodd explores the importance of 'play' in urban design with Stephen Witherford, Clare Melhuish, Ben van Bruggen and Jonathan Glancy. Plus poet Gillian Allnutt.

Philip Dodd considers the importance of 'play' in the way our city centres are designed, built, look and feel in the 21st century with architect Stephen Witherford, social anthropologist Clare Melhuish, urban planner Ben van Bruggen, and Jonathan Glancey author of 'What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower?'.

Plus, Durham poet Gillian Allnutt discusses a life in words and receiving the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

What's So Great About the Eiffel Tower? by Jonathan Glancey is published on the 28th of February.

Gillian Allnutt's latest collection poetry, Indwelling, is published by Bloodaxe Books.

Available now

45 minutes

Last on

Thu 23 Feb 2017 22:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest Stephen Witherford
Interviewed Guest Clare Melhuish
Interviewed Guest Ben van Bruggen
Interviewed Guest Jonathan Glancey
Interviewed Guest Gillian Allnutt

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 22:00

Featured in...

The Arts & Ideas Podcast

The Arts & Ideas Podcast

You can download all the past episodes of Radio 3's Free Thinking

Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019

Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019

Angry politics, what we can鈥檛 say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV

Click to listen to discussions, talks and music as the Free Thinking Festival 2019 Gets Emotional

Click to listen to discussions, talks and music as the Free Thinking Festival 2019 Gets Emotional

Angry politics, what we can鈥檛 say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV

CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many

CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many

We examine the fast-changing relationship between the individual & the crowd

CLICK to LISTEN & SEE all programmes, images, clips & features from 2017's festival

Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life