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Our original Sunday show is hosted by Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck, covering key interviews of the week and looking ahead to the next seven days.

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Andrew Tuck and Sophie Grove meet geneticist Professor Steve Jones to talk religion, learn about impulse actions with Dr David Lewis, and hear about a village on the edge of desertion with film director Sarah Gavron.

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202 19 May 2013
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Andrew Tuck and Sophie Grove meet geneticist Professor Steve Jones to talk religion, learn about impulse actions with Dr David Lewis, and hear about a village on the edge of desertion with film director Sarah Gavron.

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201 12 May 2013
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Steve Bloomfield and Hugo Macdonald meet Alex Thomson of the UK’s Channel 4 News, look at some rare counterculture literature with Carl Williams of Maggs Bros, and chat with urbanist Leo Hollis about the plight of London’s disappearing public spaces.

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200 5 May 2013
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We celebrate 200 episodes of the Monocle Weekly with style guru Peter York, Nordic Noir specialists Piv Bernth and Thomas Hedemann of Denmark’s DR television, and a special contribution from musical genius Chilly Gonzales.

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199 28 Apr 2013
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Andrew Tuck and Sophie Grove discuss nuclear near-misses with author and filmmaker Rudolph Herzog, meet butterfly-gardener Luke Brown, and enjoy music and chat from London band Portico Quartet.

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198 21 Apr 2013
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Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck learn why our climate change approach is off the mark with Duncan Clark, co-author of "The Burning Question". Plus, we compare some of the world’s most anticipated cultural mega-projects and talk with documentary filmmaker Michael Pitiot.

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197 14 Apr 2013
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Robert Bound and Sophie Grove are joined by veteran war-reporter, broadcaster and author Charles Glass, discuss over-elaborate cooking with writer Steven Poole, and meet clear-thinking Swiss entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli.

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196 7 Apr 2013
00:54:15

Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound meet Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh to discuss his controversial new documentary “The Gatekeepers”, look into Japanese outsider art with James Peto of the Wellcome Trust, and consider the challenges of immigration with director of Demos think-tank – David Goodhart.

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195 31 Mar 2013
00:53:36

Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound go lurking around graveyards with writer and historian Peter Stanford, learn about female Arab filmmakers with Elhum Shakerifar and Sabine El Chamaa, and find out what big data means for the little man with internet governance specialist Viktor Mayer-Schonberger.

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194 24 Mar 2013
00:51:10

Robert Bound and Steve Bloomfield discuss publishing in the Middle East with the founders of Brownbook – Ahmed and Rashid Bin Shabib, plus we meet London City Hall’s new cycling “tsar” Andrew Gilligan, and discuss the history of sound with broadcaster and academic, David Hendy.

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193 17 Mar 2013
00:53:43

Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck discuss the Human Rights Watch Film Festival with its director John Biaggi, learn customer service Disney-style with Lee Cockerell, and ask how the sun could save planet Earth with author Steve Mckevitt. Plus, Monocle’s Tom Edwards finally finds himself.

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192 10 Mar 2013
00:49:52

Andrew Tuck and Sophie Grove are joined by author and campaigner Paul McMahon to discuss the politics of food distribution, learn how to spread a good idea with marketing academic Jonah Berger, and find out why online entrepreneur Stan Stalnaker has created his own currency.

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191 3 Mar 2013
00:57:31

The skill of urban yodelling is tackled by Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound, we meet outgoing US Transport Secretary Ray La Hood, and hear how charity War Child is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

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  • A visit to the What Design Can Do event in Amsterdam, we talk publishing with Gert Jonkers and Jop Van Bennekom – creators of Fantastic Man, and ask what lessons the West can learn from eastern architecture with urbanist Rahul Mehrotra.
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