Two voices working one idea out from the beginning, with a diagram that moves as they say it.

6 episodes · 1h 06m of listening

• How to Read a Car 11:14
  cast default · shape derivation · mp3
  1. A name is an address
  2. One · how big
  3. Two · what shape
  4. Three · whose badge
  5. Four · the writing on the back
  6. Nobody remembers, everybody decodes
• London, placed 10:28
  cast default · shape myth · mp3
  1. The map that is not a map
  2. What it actually distorts
  3. Where Stratford actually is
  4. Rings, and a blob not a ribbon
  5. North of the river
  6. South of the river
  7. West, and the green chain
  8. Districts, councils, postcodes
• London, held in one frame 10:34
  cast warm · shape derivation · mp3
  1. There is no middle
  2. Why the bridge is here
  3. What the river does
  4. The king went west
  5. Mayfair, Marylebone, Soho
  6. Why the east is the east
  7. The port dies
  8. Three stops on a dead port
• Four layers — how the UK reaches you 12:25
  cast veteran · shape postmortem · mp3
  1. A summons, eight months in
  2. National — money and paperwork
  3. The mayor, and what he cannot touch
  4. The borough, and its teeth
  5. Health, the layer with no teeth
  6. Your building, where government stops
  7. Voting, and what arrives uninvited
• Four Stacks — living in the UK 11:32
  cast default · shape derivation · mp3
  1. Not a pyramid
  2. Health — the door is a business
  3. Money — your employer reports you
  4. The council — it bills the flat
  5. Renting — the referee turned up
  6. The whole map
• Chain ingestion: how a block becomes a row 10:33
  cast default · shape derivation · mp3
  1. Why not just ask the node?
  2. One job, one table
  3. Why write it down raw
  4. How everyone reads it
  5. A block becomes rows
  6. What is this contract?
  7. Balances
  8. Attaching the meaning
  9. Two databases, one truth
  10. When a block stops existing