Kevin McLeod

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769 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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Dish · Kevin McCloud is served pork chops with his own home-grown pickled rhubarb · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

So we went to one in Nottingham, and it's got like eight giant cooling towers.

All the cooling towers of my childhood, going up in, travelling back and forth to Yorkshire,

in our family car, the route was peppered by these great landmarks on the horizon of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

And there were these huge collections of cooling towers called cloud factories, which produced these steaming clouds above them and always connected to coal-fired power stations.

Well, as we've shut them all, so the cooling towers are redundant.

There were 240 in the UK.

There's now 37.

Wow.

And they're all scheduled for demolition.

So the question we're asking is, you know, should we keep one?

Just maybe one?

Just to have.

Because some people say one day, why are there none left?

Why are they all gone?

And...

Actually, around the world, they've been used as music venues, you know, for raves, for art exhibitions, for music performances.

And there's one in Venice used as an observation deck for the city, you know, for example.

So I kind of think that the problem we have in the UK is there's sometimes a lack of imagination in terms of how we can reinvent things.

our industrial heritage, we knock so much of it over because we think, let's just regenerate it.

Let's create jobs with a new, exciting, redeveloped future.

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