Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto on his Serpentine pavilion

Duration: 3.46

Every summer the Serpentine pavilion in London’s Hyde Park is designed by a guest architect to create a special temporary structure. In 2013, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is the youngest person to design the annual building. The Guardian’s architecture critic Oliver Wainwright speaks to Fujimoto about his creation and explores the latticework

London 2012 Olympics: The man who starts Usain Bolt

Duration: 6.46

Athletics starter Alan Bell fired the starter gun for this summer’s 100-metre race that featured Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Justin Gatlin. But as Alan – the Youth Sport Trust’s international development co-ordinator – reveals here, he already knows Olympic champion Bolt well.

Here, Alan discusses disqualifying the Jamaican runner at the 2011 World Athletics championships in South Korea and seeing Bolt setting a 100 metres world record of 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Athletics championships in Berlin.

The Wire creator David Simon on what’s behind the US war on drugs

Duration: 15.41

Writer and ex-crime journalist David Simon, who created HBO TV drama The Wire, speaks to Observer editor John Mulholland about capitalism, Margaret Thatcher and how anti-drug enforcement has evolved into social control. Simon features in Eugene Jarecki’s documentary The House I Live In, which explores the war on drugs in the US