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Broadcasting from our headquarters at Midori House in London, Monocle 24 offers world news and business live at the top of every hour.
Up next: The Stack
Something Old, Something New: Andrew Harrison and Andrew Mueller
Culture with Robert Bound 30 min listen
Flying solo: the path to pilotless planes
The Bulletin with UBS 15 min listen
Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Alice Vincent and Marty Jopson
The Monocle Weekly 1 hour listen
Interviews
Publishing
Architecture
Business
Music
Literature
Join Monocle’s editors and guests drawn from our unrivalled pool of international commentators, analysts and experts to unpack the issues dominating the day’s agenda. From diplomatic wrangles and border disputes to big business and frontline politics, this is the programme you need to hear to make sense of a dynamic and sometimes volatile world.
30 min listen
Can the United Nations force Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to act over violence in the country?
The Briefing 6 min listen
We speak to the former CIA agent – and now author of a new book – who identified and interrogated Saddam Hussein.
The Monocle Daily 13 min listen
Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson, describes Japan’s reaction to North Korea's latest missile test.
The Globalist 4 min listen
We take a closer look at Apple’s bid for Toshiba’s memory-chip business.
The Monocle Daily 4 min listen
The Menu 12 min listen
The Urbanist 4 min listen
The Monocle Arts Review
The Cinema Show 6 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 8 min listen
Section D 5 min listen
The Foreign Desk 5 min listen
The Monocle Weekly 12 min listen
When cultural and design-commentator Stephen Bayley and creative-industry luminary Roger Mavity published their professional bible ‘Life’s a Pitch’ a decade ago, the world of business sat up and listened. Now they’ve updated it for a rapidly shifting business landscape.
The Monocle Weekly 428 16 min listen
The weekend edition of the ‘Financial Times’ has a discerning readership who expect the same assiduous reporting and astute opinion-leading of its weekday cousin but also want to wind down perusing its ‘Life & Arts’, ‘House & Home’ and ‘FT Magazine’ sections. Editor Alec Russell tells us how he strikes this balance.
The Stack 264 8 min listen
Monocle’s Lisbon correspondent Trish Lorenz on how the international success of Portuguese cuisine is reflected in the capital’s dining scene.
The Menu 309 4 min listen
This musical genre is universally popular across Latin America. Based on a catchy, danceable beat, it has crossed borders and evolved into distinct regional flavours. A new cultural tour in Buenos Aires is taking visitors on a musical trip through its origins; reporter Frederick Bernas joins them.
The Monocle Arts Review 539 6 min listen
Matt Alagiah is joined by writer Mark Mason and online editor for 'The Bookseller' Sarah Shaffi to discuss this month's book releases. Plus: we head to Buenos Aires to learn about cumbia music and Go-Betweens band member Robert Forster tells us about his new book ‘Grant & I’.
The Monocle Arts Review 539 41 min listen
We look at what it takes to develop authorly talent with Helen Gordon and Travis Elborough, co-creators of book ‘Being a Writer’. Plus, musician Zola Jesus discusses new album ‘Okovi’, and we speak with cookery book designer and writer Caz Hildebrand about her latest title, ‘The Grammar of Spice’.
The Monocle Weekly 427 1 hour listen
Rio de Janeiro’s Hotel Nacional, designed by world renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, reopened its doors earlier this year after being shut for more than 20 years. Monocle’s Sheena Rossiter tells us more about this masterpiece of hospitality architecture.
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
Glenn Lowry
The Big Interview 30 min listen
Action! 15: Neil Jordan
Weekend warrior
The Stack 30 min listen
In depth
Indiecon 2017
Tall Stories 73: Toll houses
Tall Stories 72: Luma Arles
The Urbanist 9 min listen
On Design 56: Reviving an icon
Eureka 65: Maya Njie
Eureka 64: Hummingbird
The Entrepreneurs 11 min listen
Disruption in the insurance industry
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