The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo
Published: January 17, 2026
Duration: 1:00:14
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service.
Our guest is food historian Dr Annie Gray.
She discusses the impact of the first modern, fitted kitchen - the Frankfurt Kitchen - on the kitchens of today. It all goes back to 1926 and the reluctant Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky who said she wanted to be remembered for more than designing a "damned" kitchen. Sorry Margarete.
Next is the invention of the board game Cluedo, or Clue in the United States, which stemmed from playing the p...