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Julian Glover, former government special advisor on transport and speechwriter for David Cameron, speaks about his recently released bestselling biography of Thomas Telford. Little known to most, Telford created the backbone of the UK’s national road network, tying England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales together, resulting in his being dubbed ‘The Colossus of Roads’.
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June’s best books, Athens as an art destination and the RA’s freshest talent
The Monocle Arts Review 45 min listen
Resite 2017
The Urbanist 30 min listen
Art of the title
The Cinema Show 30 min listen
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Why four Arab nations want Al Jazeera shut down, the latest on South Korea’s corruption saga and what happens when you give a dog some beer (note: from London's first bar for pooches).
30 min listen
Following Isis’s destruction of the 12th-century Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Chatham House’s Renad Mansour discusses the city’s future.
The Monocle Daily 8 min listen
Major General Tim Cross explains how Russia-US political tensions result in near-misses, close calls, and sabre-rattling in the air.
The Monocle Daily 7 min listen
US pancake brand Aunt Jemima is facing calls to update its image to distance itself from its racially insensitive past. We ask how brands should evolve.
Midori House 5 min listen
Politico’s senior EU correspondent Ryan Heath discusses the opening of Brexit talks in Brussels.
The Cinema Show 8 min listen
Section D 4 min listen
The Foreign Desk 4 min listen
The Menu 6 min listen
The Urbanist 4 min listen
The Cinema Show 9 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 10 min listen
The Monocle Weekly 14 min listen
Miljen Kreka Kljakovic has undertaken some fairly ambitious projects during his decades-long career as a production designer. He’s recreated Venice in Luxembourg and Mecca in Iran. We pay a visit to his workshop to find out how the magic is made.
Matt Wolf, theatre critic for ‘The New York Times International Edition’ wraps up this year’s Tony awards with Fernando Augusto Pacheco.
The Monocle Arts Review 526 4 min listen
As Hong Kong prepares to celebrate 20 years since its return to the motherland, Monocle’s Ceinwen Thomas asks who is celebrating what?
The co-founder of album cover design company Hipgnosis on making some of the most recognisable rock art of all time.
Section D 296 8 min listen
Following the terror attack in London Bridge that left eight people dead and dozens more injured, concrete barriers have started to be put up along the city’s bridges. Much like the people, the capital has been forced to adapt to these terrible incidents, as Peter Rees, the former chief planning officer for the City of London, explains.
The Urbanist 295 10 min listen
As a city grows, the need for greenery becomes ever more acute while the space available for it becomes ever scarcer. How to solve this paradox? One solution is to grow upwards.
Marcus Samuelsson has just released a cookbook and opened a new Red Rooster restaurant in London. Having become one of America’s best-loved chefs, he explains why understanding the value of the local community is so important.
The Menu 294 12 min listen
For our weeklies segment we speak with Gail Bichler, design director for ‘The New York Times Magazine’.
The Stack 247 5 min listen
Jason Isbell
The Sessions at Midori House 15 min listen
Tennis
The Sessions at Midori House 16 min listen
Saint Etienne
The Sessions at Midori House 17 min listen
Reading for keeps
The Stack 28 min listen
Eureka 51: Chris Kontos
The Entrepreneurs 7 min listen
Behind the scenes at Monocle: issue 104
Culture with Robert Bound 30 min listen
France: what’s next for the Socialists?
The Globalist 11 min listen
Does independence always matter?
The Foreign Desk 30 min listen
Electioneering
The Monocle Daily 26 min listen
Thursday 1 June
The Briefing 30 min listen
The deal-maker in Israel
The Briefing 8 min listen
Trump on tour
The Globalist 16 min listen
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