30 St Mary Axe
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Sep 25, 2026
TomHOST
Hang on, we've got the Shard there.
TomHOST
We've got the walkie-talkie and the Gherkin.
AnnieHOST
Mm.
TomHOST
And then this one, I wanted a red bus.
Red SzellGUEST
I mean, yeah, basically it's like a... 48-storey skyscraper of rock.
Red SzellGUEST
For anybody who's been to London, if they've seen the Gherkin Building, it's kind of like trying to climb that.
Red SzellGUEST
It's got a few more cracks in it than the Gherkin Building to follow.
Red SzellGUEST
But I grew up climbing everything.
Red SzellGUEST
I climbed out of my cot.
RachelGUEST
Exactly.
Tosin AjayiCORRESPONDENT
But even with your clients, your clients still, you still have, because I've seen some of your stuff, I've seen your videos, I've seen you put in like, you know, lifting stuff up to build like, you know, the Gherkin in London and all that.
Tosin AjayiCORRESPONDENT
So you're saying even at that level, you still have people who, you still have to chase people for placement.
RachelGUEST
Also, something that's happened quite recently is, you know, companies go into administration and then you're left being owed lots and lots of money.
Charmaine DaviesGUEST
And cows.
Charmaine DaviesGUEST
The trains go through, not necessarily London, but even the London buildings, you're looking up going, wow, that's amazing, looking at the Gherkin and the Shard.
Charmaine DaviesGUEST
And then you go looking at Tailbridge and all those amazing things.
Charmaine DaviesGUEST
But no, people would rather look at what Joe Bloggs is doing, posting on Facebook.
Chanel De HondGUEST
in Hudson Yards.
Chanel De HondGUEST
[laughs] I mean, I hope to do some more of that stuff around London because there are things like the Gherkin.
Alison RichingsHOST
Exactly.
Chanel De HondGUEST
Everything's named.
Chanel De HondGUEST
Mm-hmm
Alison RichingsHOST
... about this.
Alison RichingsHOST
I'm, I mean, maybe I'm utterly wrong about this, but I don't think Norman Foster and the team when they designed the Gherkin-
Chanel De HondGUEST
Yeah
William TaylorHOST
Frequently, visitors come in on a Sunday or midweek here at St Helen's who've not been in the city for a decade, and they find themselves getting lost making their way here, even though back in the day they came here every day of their working life.
William TaylorHOST
So in nineteen ninety-five, on the site where the Gherkin currently stands, was the Baltic Exchange, and like St Helen's, it was bombed by Jerry Adams and his IRA.
William TaylorHOST
By around two thousand, the ruins of the Baltic Exchange had been demolished, and there then followed this long, long period where you wondered whether anything was actually going on.
William TaylorHOST
It seemed that there was nothing happening behind those boardings or hoardings.
William TaylorHOST
And those of you who work on the ninety-ninth floor of the Heron Tower or whatever it happens to be, will be jolly glad that it was going on.
William TaylorHOST
Three hundred and thirty-three concrete piles, each nearly a meter wide, twenty-seven meters deep in the London clay.
William TaylorHOST
That's The Gherkin, uh, and so on and so forth.
William TaylorHOST
Well, I won't go into all of the details.
WilderVOICE_ACTOR
She's turned the Shard into a giant dildo.
WilderVOICE_ACTOR
She's turned the Gherkin into a giant dildo.
WilderVOICE_ACTOR
Anything remotely phallic is now a giant dildo.
PixVOICE_ACTOR
How the fuck are we meant to find the Grand Neurotypical in all this? It's peck of pandemonium.
PeteHOST
What can you see? St.
PeteHOST
Paul's? The Gherkin? River Thames? Wobbly Bridge? I think it is the Wobbly Bridge.
PeteHOST
Is that what we call it? The reality is, what's this got to do with Hosea? Hosea and all the prophets were given a picture by God.
PeteHOST
A friend of mine went up high and takes this photo and they're looking out and it's almost like this is what they see.
Anna BradingHOST
The unimaginable did happen in that you sadly lost your wife, um, unexpectedly.
Stewart McCullochGUEST
I'm standing outside The Gherkin, I'm freezing cold, and I just go, "What am I doing? I'm a single parent of three kids.
Stewart McCullochGUEST
I've just lost my wife.
Stewart McCullochGUEST
I'm lonely.
Anna BradingHOST
He kind of had everything you could want, multiple houses, the really nice car, the great job, the holidays.
Anna BradingHOST
He had it all, in inverted commas.
Anna BradingHOST
But then there's that moment he shares where he says he's standing outside The Gherkin and, I mean, I look out the window of my house and I can see The Gherkin, and I think of him from time to time now when he says that because he's standing there and he realizes it can't bring him back the one thing that he wants most of all, which was his wife.
Anna BradingHOST
And I think this is a really helpful reminder to all of us because we can be racing, can't we? Racing to escape things in our lives.
James LambHOST
Have you seen or been called into buildings where the buzz bar has failed because the installation wasn't done properly?
Viv SullivanGUEST
We've been called to issues at the Houses of Parliament, at the Gherkin.
Viv SullivanGUEST
Probably the worst one of the lot was a hospital in Liverpool.
Viv SullivanGUEST
80% of failures, I would say, were as a direct result of installation.
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James LambHOST
can, yeah.
James LambHOST
We've been
Viv SullivanGUEST
called to issues at the Houses of Parliament, the Gherkin.
Viv SullivanGUEST
Probably the worst one of the lot was a hospital in Liverpool when it was two weeks before opening.
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