133 Episodes

  1. Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in post-Brexit Britain.

    Published: 07/05/2024
  2. Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.

    Published: 30/04/2024
  3. Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and conflict minerals.

    Published: 19/02/2024
  4. John Tuomey on his childhood in rural Ireland, becoming an architect, and his beautiful memoir, First Quarter.

    Published: 12/02/2024
  5. Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on making ethical leather.

    Published: 05/02/2024
  6. Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.

    Published: 29/01/2024
  7. Christien Meindertsma on wool (and linoleum).

    Published: 22/01/2024
  8. Simone Brewster on cork and creating 'intimate architecture'.

    Published: 27/12/2023
  9. Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert on hot glass.

    Published: 20/12/2023
  10. Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.

    Published: 28/11/2023
  11. Caroline Till on material futures, regenerative design, and lots more.

    Published: 24/10/2023
  12. Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson on how materials have changed their practice.

    Published: 18/09/2023
  13. Goldfinger’s Marie Carlisle on an extraordinary social enterprise that's centred around wood.

    Published: 13/09/2023
  14. Michael Marriott on resourceful design and his fascination with materials.

    Published: 05/09/2023
  15. Alice Kettle on embroidery.

    Published: 29/08/2023
  16. Beatie Wolfe on making music material again and the power of art.

    Published: 28/06/2023
  17. Ndidi Ekubia on silver and her extraordinary, liquid-like vessels.

    Published: 06/06/2023
  18. Ercol chairman, Henry Tadros, on elm, beech, ash and keeping his company relevant.

    Published: 30/05/2023
  19. Donna Wilson on knitting, becoming a brand, and creating her extraordinary creatures.

    Published: 22/05/2023
  20. Julian Stair on pots, death, and using cremated ashes in his work.

    Published: 15/05/2023

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In Material Matters, host Grant Gibson talks to a designer, maker, artist, architect, engineer, or scientist about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discovers how it changed their lives and careers.Follow us on Instagram @materialmatters.design and our website www.materialmatters.designThe Material Matters fair will return in 2025, as part of the London Design Festival.Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.