23 February 2015
Episode 176
55 minutes
Karen Krizanovich recaps this year’s Oscars, we judge books by their covers at the Book Illustration Competition 2015, discover a video store that’s trying to digitise forgotten VHS tapes, investigate Hanoi’s forgotten ’60s rock’n’roll scene, and there’s live music from Oslo’s Carmen Villain. Plus, we head to Borja in Spain to see how that infamously bad piece of art restoration from a couple of years ago has revitalised the town’s economy.
23 February 2015
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