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We take stock of coverage of last week’s attack in Barcelona and editor at large of ‘The Art Newspaper’ Jane Morris casts her eye over the newsstand. Plus: a new publication designed to get your creative juices flowing.
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Risk and reward
The Bulletin with UBS 15 min listen
The Rails, Venetia Rainey, Sara Shamsavari and Jo Wallace
The Monocle Weekly 56 min listen
Andy Miller
Meet the Writers 30 min listen
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From Barcelona to Finland, we explore how terrorism affects the communities it targets. Plus: homophobia in Chechnya and pop music’s favourite brands.
1 hour listen
Steve Bannon has left the White House – did he jump or was he pushed? And what next for the branch of conservatism he symbolised? Plus: the strange story of Grace Mugabe in South Africa.
Andrew Mueller, Andrew Tuck, Henry Rees-Sheridan, Carlota Rebelo and Fernando Augusto Pacheco discuss the day’s top stories from the terrorist attack in Barcelona, to how the US president is being linked to the KKK. Plus: Spotify takes on white supremacists.
30 min listen
Should Spain’s authorities have done more to prevent the terrorist attack in Barcelona? We also discuss whether the US could learn from Ukraine’s example when it comes to dealing with controversial statues and why a luxury UK store has shut up shop in Dubai?
29 min listen
Terror in Spain: at least 13 people are dead and police have dramatically foiled a second plot; Monocle 24’s correspondent and our security analysts bring you the latest. Plus: are US Republicans preparing to oust Donald Trump? And we examine press freedom in former Soviet countries.
The Monocle Arts Review
The Cinema Show 11 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 12 min listen
The Monocle Weekly 15 min listen
Section D 7 min listen
The Foreign Desk 5 min listen
The Menu 8 min listen
The Urbanist 5 min listen
In some of the darkest times of the USSR, bootleggers came up with an ingenious way to bring banned music to the people. Between the late 1940s and early 1960s they’d buy used X-rays from hospitals and record western jazz and rock 'n' roll onto them, as well as illegal Russian songs. Thomas Lowe heads to a new exhibition in Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art to find out more.
The Monocle Arts Review 535 5 min listen
The Garden Bridge was to do exactly what its name suggests. The planted bridge was to straddle the Thames but, £37m later, the project has been cancelled, as the city’s former chief planning officer, Peter Rees, explains.
The Urbanist 305 12 min listen
Design journalist Katie Treggiden guides us through some key titles on the newsstand.
Section D 305 8 min listen
Christopher Lord discusses the relationship between governance and architecture. For example, what does the layout of your parliament building say about your government? And why has work by so-called 'starchitects' started popping up in surprising corners of the world? With Razan Alzayani, Yasser Elsheshtawy, David Mulder van der Vegt, Peter Murray and Charlotte Skene Catling.
The Foreign Desk 188 30 min listen
We listen back to last year’s conversation with musical shapeshifter and rock’n’roll survivor Bobby Gillespie, lead singer of UK band Primal Scream. Original air date: 22 May 2016.
The Monocle Weekly 17 min listen
We welcome the publisher and editor of ‘Racquet’ magazine, a beautifully designed publication that serves up all things tennis.
The Stack 254 17 min listen
Why isn’t Austria renowned for its fashion? The insiders explain.
Section D 299 5 min listen
Israeli producer and musician Noga Erez takes centre stage this week as she performs from her debut album 'Off The Radar'.
The Sessions at Midori House 122 18 min listen
Girl Ray
The Sessions at Midori House 15 min listen
Juanita Stein
Charlie Fink
The Monocle Arts Review 4 min listen
Barcelona: covering tragedy
The Stack 30 min listen
Icon and Yes & No
Slowing down for summer
Can power be shared in Northern Ireland?
The Monocle Daily 10 min listen
France: what’s next for the Socialists?
The Globalist 11 min listen
Does independence always matter?
The Foreign Desk 30 min listen
How Trump got it wrong
Fire and fury
The Monocle Daily 9 min listen
Trump: 42 months to go
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