Iconicon Audiobook.

Here’s an extract of Iconicon read by John Grindrod from the audiobook.

Living Room – a Radio 4 documentary.

John Grindrod reflects on the influential 1961 report Homes for Today and Tomorrow and how past efforts to improve housing space standards can shed light on the present crisis. Produced by Emma-Louse Williams. Listen here.

A10 Live.

As part of the A10 Live project in June 2022 with writers and artists walking the length of the Great Cambridge road from London Bridge to Kings Lynn I walked the third section of the route, Stamford Hill to the North Circular. Here is a video of my part of the walk.

A10 Live is a road movie with no cars. 15 days of discovery along the A10 road, involving artists, writers and musicians. Stoke Newington Literary Festival, the project organisers, are asking what contemporary England is like right now and encouraging people to engage with the road that connects them to so many other communities. It was produced by Liz Vater and Simon Poulter.

Little Atoms/Iconicon.

It’s the excellently numbered episode 747 of Little Atoms with Neil Denny interviewing John Grindrod about Iconicon.
Listen here.

BBC News – Meet the Author.

Author John Grindrod set out to discover how blitzed Britain became a space age land of concrete and steel. He has travelled around the country studying post-war architecture and charts his journey in the book Concretopia. He showed the BBC's Nick Higham around one particular project, London's Barbican. Recorded in 2013, you can watch it here.

The Boring Talks – Green Belt Land.

A BBC podcast presented by James Ward. Once called 'Green Girdles', today's Green belts are strange and relatively unknown places. Follow the writer John Grindrod on his guided tour through a world of naturists, cavemen and rancid pies. You can listen to it here.

The Sense of Place podcast.

Ep 21: Exploring Post War & Contemporary Architecture ft. John Grindrod. Listen here.

LNDWN podcast.

This week Rachel catches up with author of new book 'Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain', John Grindrod. Join us for a discussion all about the squatters who tried to create a refugee centre inside an oligarch mansion, two London developments being hampered by cars, the plans to redevelop London's once iconic Euston Station, and much more... Listen here.

Song for Belper.

There’s pop records released in the 1970s and 80s that were commissioned by town councils around Britain to promote the joys of the place and its people. Bafta-winning writer and musician Jason Hazeley and producer Peter Curran enlist the help of legendary DJ Tony Blackburn, Emmy-winning composer David Arnold and contemporary architecture and social historian, John Grindrod. They are joined by town planner John Frankland and songwriters Tracey Wilkinson from the Rough Truffles Community Choir and The Rt Hon Sir Gregory Knight MP, composer of It’s a Leicester Fiesta. Listen here.

Thought Starters.

Talking with Tom Dyckhoff about his book The Age of Spectacle and Outskirts. You can listen here.

Podcast from the Past.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are antiques expert, broadcaster Geoffrey Munn (Antiques Roadshow) and writer John Grindrod. In this episode we discuss the fossils of Malta and relics of our pasts, the lost art of plane-spotting and tragedy foretold in carefree postcards from the start of the twentieth century. Plus sequins and petticoats. Wish you were here? You can listen here.

Little Atoms/Outskirts.

I was interviewed by Neil Denny about Outskirts. You can listen here.

London’s Peaks.

Rambling to the highest spot in Croydon with Rick Pearson. You can listen here.

South London Hardcore.

We talk to John about his book, the National Theatre, the Festival of Britain, the prefabs in Catford and New Addington where he grew up. We also address the Croydon question. Listen here.