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Monocle magazine September 2019
Issue 126
The Monocle Summer Weekly 2019: Issue Two
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From Seoul to Stockholm, Monocle selects an international playlist to fill your day (or night).
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The Menu 30 min listen
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Juliette Foster is joined by Marie Billon and Simon Brooke to review Boris Johnson’s first trip abroad as the UK’s prime minister and consider Italy’s unfolding political crisis.
30 min listen
China expert Rana Mitter tells us about the coastal resort that entertains Beijing’s ruling elite.
The Briefing 6 min listen
US expert Scott Lucas explains secret talks between Venezuela’s government and the Trump administration.
We find out why France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is teaching literature to unemployed people in a deprived part of Paris.
The Briefing 7 min listen
Enrico Franceschini walks us through Italy’s summer of political drama.
The Globalist 8 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 12 min listen
Monocle on Design 4 min listen
Meet the Writers 17 min listen
The Foreign Desk 4 min listen
The Menu 5 min listen
The Urbanist 6 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 10 min listen
Monocle on Design 5 min listen
Stuart Wells is the global head of brand marketing and communications for Adidas Outdoor, made up of Adidas Terrex and heritage brand Five Ten, which focuses on trail running, mountain biking, climbing and outerwear. The department operates as more of a start-up and is driving research and development and collaborations with brands such as Parley for the Oceans. Wells has years of brand and entrepreneurial experience, having worked with Nokia and global agencies McCann-Erickson and BBDO.
Libreria’s creative director Paddy Butler drops by to recommend some summer reading and we head to Paris to speak to supremo concierge Adrian Moore about how he gives guests the best tips in town. Plus: UK singer Arlo Parks takes to the microphone to play us some live tracks.
The Monocle Summer Series 3 46 min listen
Karim Kaddoura is co-founder of Virtuo, the French start-up that’s shaking up car hire. It offers no-nonsense rentals of premium Mercedes not only from airports and train stations but in city centres across France and the UK. The company is expanding quickly, taking away the pain of hiring a car and offering something better than car sharing. Karim’s father owned a dealership and his entrepreneurial journey has been about rethinking our relationship to cars.
The Entrepreneurs 410 30 min listen
Last month authorities in Moscow disqualified dozens of opposition candidates from a city council vote due in September on apparently spurious claims that many of the signatures required for their candidacy applications were forged. This triggered an unprecedented protest movement in Moscow and Russian cities, which have been met with a violent crackdown by riot police. Monocle’s Alexei Korolyov reports.
Writer Dana Thomas joins us to discuss her upcoming book “Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes”. Plus we delve into an archive recording with architect and urban designer Sir Terry Farrell.
Monocle on Design 410 30 min listen
Denver is home to an underrated music, culture and food scene but it’s gradually beginning to make more noise across the US, and for good reason.
Last week saw the UK release of what is supposedly Quentin Tarantino’s penultimate film: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’. Robert Bound, Simran Hans and Tim Robey discuss the counter-culture, cowboys and controversies surrounding it.
Monocle on Culture 410 30 min listen
We take another flick through the pages of our ‘Summer Weekly’ newspaper, this week visiting the hulking modernist flagship of Cuba’s state owned ice-cream brand Coppelia. It’s been serving scoops for more than half a century and has become a symbol of the nation’s resilient culture.
Robin Givhan, Katie Vanneck-Smith, Andrew Gallix
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The Curator 1 hour listen
Carla Sozzani
The Big Interview 30 min listen
Jared Diamond
Sebastián Lelio
Tall Stories 170: Cuba’s Coppelia
Tall Stories 169: La Grande Motte
Tall Stories 168: Bletchley Park
The Urbanist 7 min listen
Cybersecurity for entrepreneurs
The Bulletin with UBS 15 min listen
Investor sentiment
‘The Food Revolution’
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