On this episode I chat with legendary 'convener', connector and city thinker Pat Brown about her musical past in Liverpool, mixing it with Julian Cope, Pete Burns, Echo and the Bunnymen and more, the place of culture as the lifeblood of cities, experimentation, getting an MBE, and the pioneering trip she orchestrated to New York that formed the basis of Business Improvement Districts on this side of the channel

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In this first episode of Detailer, I talk to William Murray, co-founder of MurrayTwohig, about his firm's 'non-parasitic' approach to placemaking, why good things happen sometimes despite architects rather than because of them, about the prospect for real change in the UK under Labour, Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign, ambition, historic churches, kissing-gates, and barns. Oh, and a total lack of squirrels as we walk through the Sussex countryside to one of his favourite places.

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