The Long Table

Round-table conversations recorded live at design week events.
8 Episodes
Row of pale wooden chairs on a grey floor
Episodes
Episode 8

Clients on Stage

Four people who commission design, on what they wish studios would stop doing in meetings.

Hosted by Tamsin Achari3 Mins


Episode 7

The Critics' Table

Four critics on the review they regret, and the building that proved them wrong.

Hosted by Tamsin Achari3 Mins


Episode 6

Craft Versus Scale

A weaver, a mill owner and a retailer on whether anything made by hand can be made ten thousand times.

Hosted by Tamsin Achari3 Mins


Episode 5

Students Ask the Jury

Final-year students question the people who will mark their degree shows, with the marks already in.

Hosted by Tamsin Achari3 Mins


Episode 4

Who Owns the Brief?

Clients, strategists and designers on stage, arguing about who gets to change the question.

Hosted by Tamsin Achari3 Mins


Episode 3

Architects Versus Engineers, Round Table

A good-natured argument about who really designs a building, recorded in front of two hundred people who took sides.

Hosted by Tamsin Achari3 Mins


Episode 2

Live From the Furniture Fair

Three makers on what sold, what did not, and what the buyers said when they thought nobody was listening.

Hosted by Tamsin Achari3 Mins


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