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Monocle magazine July/August 2021
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A look into the rich food culture from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Plus: Monocle staff members’ recommendations for summer food and drink from all over the world.
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Historical series: The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Foreign Desk 30 min listen
The Olympics in print
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Monocle’s Olympics correspondent Kieran Pender reports from the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony, with analysis from our panel in the studio too. Plus: we examine US Republicans and Jair Bolsonaro’s vaccine tactics in Brazil and CNN’s move into streaming.
40 min listen
Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief Fiona Wilson and former UK ambassador in Japan, David Warren, on the start of the Olympic Games.
The Briefing 9 min listen
China has avoided linking severe weather and flooding in the country to climate change, unlike Germany. Sophia Yan, Beijing correspondent for ‘The Telegraph’, discusses the fallout from flooding in Henan province, the worst in a millennium.
The Globalist 7 min listen
Monocle’s health and science correspondent has the latest as Beijing refuses to cooperate with the second phase of the WHO’s coronavirus probe.
The Briefing 8 min listen
The US has dropped its opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will transport natural gas from Russia to Germany. Scott Lucas and Mark Galeotti discuss the U-turn from Washington and Ukraine’s dismay at the decision.
The Globalist 9 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 10 min listen
Meet the Writers 24 min listen
Monocle on Design 6 min listen
The Foreign Desk 6 min listen
The Menu 2 min listen
The Urbanist 6 min listen
The Monocle Weekly 15 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 12 min listen
Richard Burger, Martijn Obers and Dirk de Bruijn are the founders of Swapfiets, a full-service subscription bike company aiming to make travelling the city on two wheels hassle-free. The three founders met at the University of Technology in Delft and launched the company in 2014. For a monthly fee, Swapfiets will make sure you always have a bike, with repairs and insurance covered in the cost.
Arifa Akbar is the chief theatre critic at ‘The Guardian’. A journalist for over 20 years, she previously held the position of literary editor at ‘The Independent’ and worked as an arts and news correspondent. She speaks with Georgina Godwin about her new memoir ‘Consumed’ which is a personal exploration of her own grief after her sister died at the age of 45 from tuberculosis. In this moving debut, Arifa explores illness, sisterhood, and the role of art in life and loss.
The British fashion designer is lauded for her ability to produce garments with the female gaze in mind. With news that Philo will launch an eponymous brand, fashion journalist Dana Thomas tells us what we could expect from the designer’s return to the industry.
Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro was comfortably re-elected to office in 2018. Or was he? Allegations of a false result have led the UK government to formally recognise opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s official premier despite simultaneously continuing diplomatic relations with Maduro’s administration. Both are trying to access gold reserves held by the Bank of England. The British courts must now make a conclusive decision.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was an artist at the forefront of the 20th-century avant-garde. She was also a craftswoman, a graphic designer, a poet, an interior designer and a performer. Such a variation of disciplines has made it hard to define her as an artist. But does that mean she has been overlooked? Tate Modern has put on a major retrospective of Taeuber-Arp’s vast amount of work made throughout her vibrant career. Robert Bound, Ossian Ward and Amah-Rose Abrams review it in this week’s episode, and discuss the links between Africa and the dada movement, the readdressing of the traditional art canon and the seriousness with which decorative art forms are considered.
Monocle on Culture 510 30 min listen
Monocle’s Nina Milhaud discusses building preservation in Hong Kong with architectural historian Charles Lai, as they look at a classic piece of civic architecture that is due for demolition.
Tyler Brûlé dissects the weekend’s biggest and most interesting news stories with panellists Chandra Kurt and Florian Egli, and our friends and contributors in the UK, Japan and Germany.
Monocle on Sunday 77 NaN min listen
In part two of our special historical series this summer, we examine the Suez crisis of 1956. Ever since Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser announced his plans to nationalise the Suez Canal, the UK hasn’t looked quite so sure of itself. What does the country think it’s doing? What is Israel’s long game? And how will this impact the UK’s relationship with the United States? Andrew Mueller speaks to Michael Binyon, John Everard, Anshel Pfeffer and Alex von Tunzelmann.
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Review: Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Monocle on Culture 30 min listen
The Power of Sound: Nainita Desai
Monocle on Culture 14 min listen
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The Entrepreneurs 30 min listen
Eureka 242: The New Craftsmen
The Entrepreneurs 14 min listen
Eureka 238: X Shore
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Outside the box
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Tall Stories 172: Victoria Park, Hong Kong
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