Episodes
With 1000 videos and approaching 100 million views, Jago Hazard is one of Britons best exports! His channel is witty and wise and we coaxed him into a rare interview. Thats Jago!
Dan Rhatigan is one of the world's leading typeface experts, now working for the Monotype Corporation but previously for Adobe. He and fellow font geek Mark Ovenden discuss the importance of type from Letraset to lettering on your screen. A complete geek-out session which everyone will love!
TheTransportPolitic.com is hugely influential in the train and transit world. Mark Ovenden met its creator when they were both living in Paris in the Noughties. Now Yonah is a full time lecturer, researcher and broadcaster on the importance of urbanism, especially housing and transport. Hear his life story and transport campaigns on this week's CATCH-cast, direct from Washington D.C.
New High-Speed trains are being built everywhere...except Canada and the USA. Blogger & author Taras Grescoe explains why direct from Montreal.
He talks fast and furious and he's a huge advocate of common sense in the rail industry: meet Gareth Dennis of #Railnatter.
Former Radio 4 announcer & rail journalist Sim Harris confesses he was scared of steam trains as child but came to appreciate the beauty of the railway.
Distinguished journalist, broadcaster and author of many railway book, Christian Wolmar, shares his thoughts on High-Speed rail (both here and in China), Great British Railways and why he wanted to be Mayor of London!
Remember those beautiful artworks in old train compartments? Bucolic scenes of Britains idyllic landscapes? Greg Norden has the largest collection of them!
Ever wanted to just drop everything and whiz across Europe by train. No itinerary, just jump on the first one that comes along! That's Inter-railing! One ticket: as many trips as you like! Expert Brendan James tells us how it works.
It's 150s years since Alexander Graham Bell patented the Telephone. A device that has transformed our lives! We celebrate by replaying the first CATCH-cast interview with Emeritus Professor Nigel Linge.
How are huge maps put online? What's the process to scan an entire timetable? Matthew Shaw explains to joys of collecting and displaying transport timetables and maps on his website timetableworld.com
For the culmination of LGBT History Month, National Railway Museum Curator Ashlynn Hudson-Welburn introduces her new project: "People Pride Progress".
What would you do with half a million train photos? That was the task facing Robin Fell who set up the UK's largest privately owned archive of transport images. Find out how he did it on today's CATCH-cast.
You may use them then discard them, but bus maps are well designed pieces of cartography and have become collectors items for John Davies. He also loves old Soviet Military Maps too!
125 years ago this year, Marconi sent the first radio signal over the horizon from The Needles to The Lizard (Cornwall). Isle of Wight Radio Society chair explains why it was a pivotal moment and the joys of being a radio ham.
With 40,000 killed on American roads every year and 22-lane highways still being built...how can they be weened off automobiles? Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon believe there is a Life After Cars and are inspired by some European lessons.
One of the UK's most prolific authors on railway books, Julian Holland, talks about his early trainspotting, background in design, Isle of Wight's closed railways and how met Jimi Hendrix!
Motorway Service Stations, Holiday Camps, Railway Station Platforms and Buildings, the Underground...these are spaces we take for granted - but as David Lawrence reveals they have all be carefully designed. Hear from a Doctor who knows...and one with a mercurial Pirate past too!
Can public transport be beautiful? Daniel Wright runs a whole website claiming it certainly can! From architecture to typefaces, posters to tickets...the charm and good design of our buses, stations, trains, ferries and airports is under the microscope here and at Daniel's excellent blog: thebeautyoftransport.com
How the mobile phone evolved, including the role played by Hollywood's Hedy Lamarr during WW2! Islander Roger Wilkins explains his role in their development.
From war and transport to sports and concerts, 20th Century posters have become collectors items. Do you have one rolled up in the loft? Former museum curator and collector David Bownes explains why 20thCentury Posters are all the rage!
From British Rail Engineering to steam tramways...Richard Marks is an expert on our industrial past. He also explains how football was crucial to WW1.
Who makes a station look more like an art gallery? And why? Today's guest is one of the Worlds most prominent commissioners of art in metro stations, Andrew Mead.
Ever wondered what it takes to design a map of a transport system? A gathering of map and way finding designers got together in Hong Kong to discuss their works - and Mark Ovenden was there to speak to them!
The most popular CATCH-cast podcast replayed: how America's biggest subway was mapped. With Cameron Booth and Peter Lloyd, NYC Subway map experts.
How one of the Britain’s most prolific writers on railway subjects…kicked off an exciting Substack about Reading On Trains. Also: his new book The Moquette Mystery which brings its protagonist to the Isle of Wight.
How one of the Britain’s most prolific writers on railway subjects…kicked off an exciting Substack about Reading On Trains. Also: his new book The Moquette Mystery which brings its protagonist to the Isle of Wight.
Ever fancied the idea of redesigning a transport map for a city? Football fan, Francophile, film-loving cartographer Abraham Dein...did just that! Find out how here on the CATCH cast!
Cartographer Damien Saunder has collected 100s of album covers...with maps on them! His research shows 1 in every 500 covers has some kind of cartographic image and he discuss his new book Maps On Vinyl and how music and mapping has been his passions since childhood.