Sunday, 25 November, 2001, 12:30 GMT Grand designs – limited success
Could we fit the world athletics championships in here?
The usual feast for the senses on this weeks programme – including an invigorating discussion on this country's apparent inability to stage world class event's.
We had a starry cast on offer, including the former Labour Sports Minister, Tony Banks; David Campese, one of Australia's foremost rugby players who acted as ambassador for the highly successful Sydney Olympics; Lucy Musgrave director of the architecture foundation, a charitable organisation which promotes greater understanding of architecture and design; and old friend of the programme, Tom Fort, author of The Grass is Greener (Our Love Affair with the Lawn) about the joys of grass cutting – he writes an angling column for the Financial Times.
Well, after that you can imagine we were exhausted, so we all sat back and listened to Dan Damon's report on the future of travel, a piece that was inspired by the news this week that the government had given their approval for the development of a fifth terminal at Heathrow Airport this week.
The decision to go ahead with the terminal was based on official projections for air travel which suggest the number of British passengers will more than double in the next 20 years. By 2020, we'll make 400 million journeys by air each year. What kind of people will we be if so many of us are frequent flyers?
So, just click on the audio button on the top right hand corner of the page, sit back, and relax.
