The Monocle Daily, episode 156
Why North Korea is threatening South Korea, we hear from our man in Shanghai, and discuss urban affairs for Monocle’s Quality of Life week.
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The Monocle Weekly, episode 114
For edition 114 of the Monocle Weekly, the team speaks with Tim Marshall, foreign affairs editor at Sky News, on news gathering at the frontline and how his network won the day in Libya.
Business / Innovation
Business Briefing
A new Saturday market of small-scale farmers in Puerto Rico adds to the country's organic agricultural movement, a new pie shop in Lisbon taps into the growing trend for inexpensive fare over a traditional sit-down affair…
The Monocle Weekly, episode 184
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound discuss Italy’s future with former editor of the Economist Bill Emmott and Italian filmmaker Annalisa Piras, meet author Richard Davenport-Hines to take a fresh look at the Profumo Affair, and…
Design / Fashion
Rummage sale
Shinji Kitada’s trade show, Jumble, is an intimate affair – by expo standards – that favours small and medium-sized fashion labels but which has an impressively global roster to match its international ambitions.
Culture / Television
Golden girls
To counter dipping audience figures and falling advertising revenues, TV news increasingly offers a diet of soft stories, banal banter and Identikit blondes. Who is to blame, a public unwilling to engage with global affairs…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Diplomacy Briefing
Germany's Federal Intelligence Service's, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), relocation to central Berlin, Iceland's debate over membership in the EU, and New Zealand's cuts to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Affairs / Television
Non-stop news
In October TV4-Gruppen will launch the only 24-hour news channel in Sweden, headed by Göran Ellung, news and current affairs director of programmes at the main network. It’s hoped it’ll draw in an audience of news-hungry…
Culture / Film
Briefing culture
Books: Catalogue of love affair, an East End turf survey, George Steiner's essays. Films:Jamie Johnson's documentary Sounds Like Teen Spirit and fresh blood in Let the Right one In. Art: New shows at Athens and Turin…
Culture / Television
Nordic News Network
In a bid to lure fickle advertisers and demanding audiences, TV news has become increasingly bland and banal. And so too have the stations' studios. Everything looks so cheap and dull. That's why we've been playing fantasy…
Culture / Arts
54th Venice Biennale
Culture editor Robert Bound reports from the 2011 Venice Biennale, pitching the cream of contemporary art against the most classical backdrop of them all. Away from the parties and gin palaces parked on the Grand Canal,…
Business / Provenance
Studio twenty-four
Al Jazeera English is the first English-language 24-hour news and current affairs channel from the Middle East. It launched in November 2006 alongside the orginal Al Jazeera. The channel is based in Doha, Qatar, with…
The Briefing, episode 278
Monocle’s Joseph Dana reports from Cairo, author John Garnaut talks political intrigue in China, and journalist Rahul Bedi brings us the latest news from Delhi.
Midori House, episode 277
The FT’s Geoff Dyer explores Barack Obama’s ‘pivot’ to Asia, and Charlie Beckett of POLIS assesses the potential of micropayments to solve journalism’s financial woes.
The Globalist, episode 281
Shafiq Alam, AFP’s Bureau Chief in Dhaka, examines the consequences of a huge clothing-factory fire in Bangladesh. We also visit Brazil, Copenhagen and Lisbon.
The Briefing, episode 281
Daniella Peled on Ehud Barak's career, why the world's richest woman won't talk about her new book, and Tyler Brule explains why cities need trees.
The Globalist, episode 280
As Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi grants himself sweeping powers, Joseph Dana updates us from Cairo. Plus Liam Aldous previews the Catalan elections.
The Briefing, episode 284
Expert Marina Petroleka analyses the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on BP's reputation, and we contrast media freedom in Delhi, Cape Town and Singapore.
The Monocle Daily, episode 281
The NYT's Scott Shane opens up Obama's drone rule book, Pimm Fox joins us from New York, and we chat to the Gibraltar Chronicle's editor.
The Briefing, episode 270
International Crisis Group’s Jim Della-Giacoma discusses Obama’s Burma visit, we hear from ex-SAS officer Andy McNAb on state secrets, and get the week’s luxury news.