Episode 161: The stars of Benefactors, a new play featuring an architect talking about design, urban planning and the compromises architects make

Emma Palmer and Gareth Davies star in Benefactors, an Olivier Award-winning architecture comedy set in the late 1960s, where they play Jane & David, where he’s an idealistic architect and she’s an anthropologist who always stands with him. Their neighbours Colin and Sheila are by comparison struggling. Colin’s glory days are over, while Sheila is subservient and unfocused. David feels his new architectural dream, the redevelopment of an inner-city housing project, will be the...