The Listen
The June Listen: three conversations worth your commute
The House · 5 June 2026
Three podcast episodes we have shared most often this month — on cities, on cooking, on doing fewer things better.
We do not curate a podcast list lightly. Most weeks we share nothing. This month, three episodes earned a place at the table:
1. A conversation between an urbanist and a novelist on what makes a neighbourhood feel inhabited. Slow, and worth it.
2. A chef talking about the year she closed her restaurant on purpose. The most honest hour of audio we have heard this year.
3. A short interview with a designer on the discipline of refusing work. Twenty-two minutes. Listen twice.
Titles on request. We prefer to hand them over in person.