Kevin McCloud
Home truths: TV’s Kevin McCloud thinks Australia should stop building such big houses
The Grand Designs presenter on how the yimby mantra and infill development can solve the housing shortage
Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter
31, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
Kevin McCloud: ‘We thought Grand Designs was going to be watched by one surveyor and his dog’
The TV presenter, 64, on his Footlights days, hatred of selfies, first embarrassing bike and the joys of just lying in his hammock
Nick McGrath
02, Dec, 2023 @2:00 PM
TV tonight: why Mary Portas gave Rishi Sunak a Jilly Cooper book
Portas joins Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Kevin McCloud in getting creative to fight the climate crisis. Plus: Joan Collins meets Louis Theroux. Here’s what to watch this evening
Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Ellen E Jones, Alexi Duggins and Simon Wardell
21, Nov, 2023 @6:20 AM
TV tonight: backstage revelations with RuPaul’s UK drag queens on tour
The stars of Drag Race UK series two open up to the camera between gigs. Plus: a royal restoration project brings a jobs boost. Here’s what to watch tonight
Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Danielle De Wolfe, Phil Harrison, Alexi Duggins and Simon Wardell
30, Nov, 2022 @6:20 AM
TV tonight: a complicated end to Martin Freeman’s family comedy-drama
Ally (Haggard) and Paul (Freeman) have a dramatic argument in Breeders. Plus: will four months of simulated parenting change a woman’s view of motherhood? Here’s what to watch this evening
Hollie Richardson, Ellen E Jones, Ali Catterall and Danielle De Wolfe
31, Aug, 2022 @5:20 AM
‘Property porn’: is TV’s obsession with home buying fuelling the UK’s housing crisis?
Despite an unprecedented crisis in home ownership, shows like Location, Location, Location and Grand Designs are seemingly neverending. Might they be to blame for skyrocketing prices?
Vicky Spratt
13, Jul, 2022 @2:48 PM
‘I would never spend that much on a kitchen!’: Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud on money, ambition – and expensive mistakes
For more than 20 years the designer and presenter has shown viewers what it really costs to build a dream home. He talks about the frayed emotions, failure and why the UK needs radical land reform
Emine Saner
13, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
Some people fill the holes in their lives by building homes. I do it by watching them | Luke Turner
They’re privileged and can be lacking in self-awareness, yet the home-builders on Grand Designs are always compelling says author Luke Turner
Luke Turner
19, Jan, 2021 @12:21 PM
Grand Designs review: £4m down – and still no house?
Even seasoned presenter Kevin McCloud seems shocked by the huge scale of this megabasement project – yet it’s hard not to will it to succeed
Rebecca Nicholson
06, Jan, 2021 @10:00 PM
Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud’s housing firm at risk of insolvency
Hundreds have invested between £100 and £150,000 in eco-friendly HAB Housing
Rupert Jones
14, Aug, 2020 @6:00 AM
Kevin McCloud’s Rough Guide to the Future: why is he here, again?
In this new Channel 4 show the omnipresent doom-merchant hosts, but doesn’t partake in, a travelogue about technology saving the planet
Joel Golby
08, Feb, 2020 @11:00 AM
FCA to ban promotion of mini-bonds to small investors
Chastened regulator moves to protect inexperienced investors ahead of Isa season
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
26, Nov, 2019 @2:56 PM
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