South Bank

And because I was working in one of those new universities, Sussex, I was interested in how that... how that kind of came about and the way that kind of architecture and design was so important to those kind of places.

I think you could also look not just at universities, those kind of new universities, but also a lot of civic building, You know, what gets called kind of brutalism or I guess in London it would be the South Bank, the Barbican Centre or airports.

So you could start going to these places and there'd be a different kind of furniture around.

There'd be this kind of quite low slung seating, very, again, very relaxed, very much about this kind of informality.

So make sure you are following us, Soundtrack in UK.

Next up, then, I had the absolutely wonderful and slightly terrifying job of interviewing Sofia Coppola as part of the London Film Festival, a big screen talk that took part in The Queen Elizabeth Hall down at South Bank.

If you've been there, you know how massive that room is.

And it was just little me and Sophia on stage having a chat.

Like, I'd be like, that's fine, I'll take the kids.

We'll go to the South Bank, do you know what I mean? We'll go and look at the Christmas lights or whatever.

Like, it would be cool.

Whereas now I'm thinking, nah, that's all right, mate.

Yeah.

I mean, I heard that the BFI on South Bank in the UK is sold out until September, until late September.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think the only definitive answer that we have is we found a newspaper article from the launch of Robes nearly 20 years ago.

And that said, it was an acronym based on the original locations of our winter night shelters, which was Rotherhithe, Bermondsey and Southbank.

Well that's helpful because I didn't know that.

So we'll talk about Robes in a moment or two and you can tell us what Robes does.

Of course we didn't.

We'd done a pop-up on the South Bank the year before that, and that was mental.

It was a really fun but stupid thing to do.

But you just don't know.

Nightmare day.

This is good.

So I talked about the pop-up on the South Bank.

We were taking it apart.