Audio interviews and lectures

The BBC radio 3 website has an interesting archive of 20 audio clips of interviews and lectures by famous architects . Of particular interest was one from the BBCs sounding the century collection(1999), the lecture titled 'metropolitan apotheosis' by Rem Koolhaas. Koolhaas; architect, theorist, journalist, is also a well respected 'psychoanalyst of the city' gives a short lecture on his research and theories of the contemporary urban condition in its pure form. He gives examples of how cities have resisted or succumb to becoming 'perfectly formed' in a predictable, generic, consumerist culture. Well worth a listen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/architecture/ram/akoolhaas.ram

Other interviews range one with John Pawson on the injection of his austere style into the British consumerist market through the M&S lifestore in Gateshead, a discussion about Hampshire county councils approach to quality school design and many others including the architects Gehry, Libeskind, Grimshaw, Piano, etcetera. Find the whole collection here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/architecture/progarchive.shtml

Whilst on the topic there is also a BBC4 website containing audio interviews with earlier 20th century architects such as Le Corbusier, Groupius, van de Rohe, Speer, etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/professions/architects.shtml