JOHN GRINDROD: I like the fact that suburbia is a constantly evolving and changing. It's not as fixed, I think, as the word evokes in people's heads. The word ‘suburbia’ sort of evokes a very fixed idea of a place that is identikit, that all suburbs are the same, that within the suburb everything is the same, that all people are the same, all experiences are the same. I think it has this kind of flattening-out facility, that word, that isn't true.
Read moreTranquillusionist: Home and Garden transcript
This is the Tranquillusionist: Home and Garden Edition, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, read the names of original programmes on HGTV, and the copy from lawnmower ads from before I was born.
