Doctors' Notes: Buildings
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Xand continue their conversation about how the built environment affects our health, with architect Lisa Finlay from Heatherwick Studio.
They ask when wellbeing first became a serious consideration in architecture, how Lisa weaves it into her own projects, and whether cities can be designed in ways that actively support public health.
They also explore what the “healthy building” of the future might look like, and whether architecture could play a bigger role in preventing illness before it starts.
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Presenters: Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken Guest: Lisa Finlay Producer: Faye Lyons-White Visuals Producer: Leon Gower Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar Editor: Jo Rowntree Researcher: Grace Revill Assistant Producer: Maia Miller-Lewis Tech Lead: Reuben Huxtable Digital Lead: Richard Berry Composer: Phoebe McFarlane Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby
At the BBC: Assistant Commissioner: Greg Smith Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | An early start here. It's time to kick off. |
| 0:10.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:11.9 | What a line-up. |
| 0:13.3 | Oh, thanks very much. We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:16.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:18.3 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:20.2 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:23.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:25.0 | BBC sounds packed with personality. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello, welcome to Doctor's Notes. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm Dr. Chris Van Tilken. |
| 0:32.4 | As ever I'm here with my identical twin brother. |
| 0:34.8 | That's me, Doctor's Aunt. |
| 0:35.8 | We've just finished recording an interview |
| 0:38.2 | with architect Lisa Finley on buildings in a space that she was really responsible for creating |
| 0:45.1 | Cold Drops Yard. That's right. And Coldrocks Yard is a space just north of Kings Cross and Lisa was |
| 0:50.3 | one of the architects who was responsible for designing some of its most interesting features. |
| 0:55.6 | So it was fun to be outdoors. |
| 0:57.0 | We've returned to the studio, and we're very lucky that Lisa has joined us for some extra content on Doctor's Notes. |
| 1:04.5 | We're getting into old buildings, why we love them, why they're interesting, why we might not want too many of them. |
| 1:11.3 | And how we could still do old buildings now. |
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