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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.
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Boom or bust: statues in the city
Section D 30 min listen
Green Man turns 15
Culture with Robert Bound 28 min listen
Risk and reward
The Bulletin with UBS 15 min listen
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Interviews
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With Donald Trump taking another defensive tone at a rally in Phoenix we ask whether there’s a growing divide between his staunchest supporters and mainstream voters. Plus: Poland boosts its defence capability by offering military training to students and Monocle’s editor Andrew Tuck looks at how New York’s changing demographics brought an end to the print edition of ‘The Village Voice’.
30 min listen
Donald Trump has outlined the US’s new strategy in Afghanistan but he left many observers scratching their heads.
The Globalist 10 min listen
Jeffrey Howard and Stephen Dalziel on why the UK seems to have come full circle in its Brexit goals – and why Brussels is unlikely to approve.
Midori House 9 min listen
German chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she is ready to address fresh challenges posed by digital policy. But is she just offering more of the same?
The Globalist 7 min listen
Hear from Michael Semple, former special representative for Afghanistan, and Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford.
The Monocle Daily 10 min listen
The Menu 11 min listen
The Urbanist 4 min listen
The Monocle Arts Review 57 min listen
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
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
My Sad Captains
The Sessions at Midori House 15 min listen
Flow Festival
The Monocle Arts Review 8 min listen
Girl Ray
Barcelona: covering tragedy
The Stack 30 min listen
Design in print
Icon and Yes & No
Can power be shared in Northern Ireland?
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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