Monstrosities Mon Amour
Episodes
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Nottingham's Victoria Centre, with Lucy Brouwer
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s crash the Austin Maxi in the basement of the Victoria Centre in Nottingham, with historian and raconteur Lucy Brouwer, who runs the very enter...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Point, Milton Keynes, with David Jesudason
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a home-town kidnapping in this episode, when award-winning beer writer David Jesudason whisks me down the road to the Point cinema in Milton Ke...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The National Theatre with Rebecca Lambert
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Archaeologist Rebecca Lambert is used to investigating stone circles and prehistoric sites, but when she first visited the National Theatre she found ...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Fens with Tom Cox
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Tom Cox has long been fascinated by the eerie flatlands of the Fens, those drained marshlands on the edge of East Anglia. On our way around we ...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Blackwall Tunnel with Rosamund Lily West
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for an underwater adventure as we go beneath the Thames with curator and architectural historian Dr Rosamund Lily West, the brains behind LC...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Thetford with John Boughton
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s visit an ancient Norfolk town, and instead focus on its postwar estates with one of Britain’s best loved housing historians, John Boughton o...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Golden Mile, Blackpool, with Kathryn Ferry
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s visit a wonder of Britain’s industrial heritage – the gaudy seafront excess of Blackpool, Britain’s most extraordinary seaside town.Afte...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Drum, Margate, with Dan Thompson
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turner Contemporary was the first modern art gallery in Margate this century, right? Wrong. And why are so many studio pottery teapots languishing in ...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Blue Bridge, with Catherine Croft
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s so special about this modest little bridge in a central London park? And why is twentieth century architecture’s saviour Catherine Croft a ...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Grafton Car Park, Worthing, with Travis Elborough
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How and why was the chi-chi seafront in Regency Worthing modernised in the 1960s? And what is the appeal of a Swedish prog-rock album of Tolkien’s f...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Savoy Centre with Rose Ruane
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where in Glasgow can you go for your niche shopping interests as well as for a night out? And what crockery pattern is the very epitome of Thatcher-Ma...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Junction 3 of the M32 in Bristol with Gareth E Rees
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is there a standing stone and a burgeoning counter culture to be found on a pedestrian junction of the M32? And why are good second hand cardigans...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Brighton Marina with Angela Barnes
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did an out of town retail park end up being built on the beach in Britain’s sauciest seaside town? Join me and comedian Angela Barnes to discove...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Minster Court with Philip Downer
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘Joyous, fun-coloured, and life-enchancing are very much the qualities we are not looking for at the moment.’ So says Philip Downer, occasional to...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Swindon with Helen Barrett
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode design and feature journalist Helen Barrett kidnaps me in the boot of her Austin Maxi and takes me to the Wiltshire town of Swindon, w...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Corby Bus Station with Mike Althorpe
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Monstrosities Mon Amour is a new podcast celebrating places and cultural artefacts more usually slagged off or easily dismissed.In this first episode ...