Kevin McCloud
speaker
3,100 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Kevin McCloud’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 4.
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Because it was all about what's going to come, not what's happening now.
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It's fair to say that a lot of the taller buildings built since the war.
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Oh, they've come down.
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A lot of them come down.
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Glasgow, I think, demolished something like ninety tall towers in a sort of blanket sweep of removal.
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Of good and bad.
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And the point is that yeah, I'm sure there were some that were not
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didn't promote social community and and contact that were difficult.
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Here there was a big change, wasn't there?
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Because in the seventies I think was a lot of social unrest, and this is partly because if I remember this correctly, the GLC, Greater London Council under Ken Livingston, had a policy of no concierges.
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So basically
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Everybody it's like letting the children run free, letting the prisoners run the asylum, you know.
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It went mad.
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And people had to barricade themselves in their own homes.
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They brought the concierge back, I think, in the mid eighties.
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Revolutionized the place.
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We were sitting downstairs just waiting, you know, to meet up and we were in the foyer with the concierge.
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There and everybody that came in at the building was saying hello to each other, saying hello to us.
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It was being in anywhere, anywhere that's functional and pleasant to be and exciting and social.
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And you realize you don't need that many rules.
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