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The designers of the opening sequence of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Catch Me If You Can’ explain the importance of handcrafted originality in the digital age. Plus: ‘Slack Bay’ director Bruno Dumont takes us to the French coast with Juliette Binoche and we touch down in Vienna to rediscover the city’s favourite film.
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The Bulletin with UBS 15 min listen
Lydia Polgreen, Gregory Crewdson and Pete Brown
The Monocle Weekly 54 min listen
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A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering everything from technology to aviation and retail to media.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is lending a hand to French president Emmanuel Macron on environmental policies. But is the film star and former California governor an effective campaigner?
The Monocle Daily 8 min listen
Al Jazeera has become a bargaining chip: if the blockade on Qatar is to be lifted, it must go. Baria Alamuddin, foreign editor at ‘Al Hayat’, explains it all.
The Globalist 9 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.
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
The Urbanist 10 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 11 min listen
The Monocle Weekly 11 min listen
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
Robert Bound chats to Israeli producer and musician Noga Erez about their recent visit to the night clubs of Tel Aviv for a story in the latest issue of Monocle
Culture with Robert Bound 297 5 min listen
Independence movements don’t always mean a heroic struggle against oppression. Some countries that appear functional and pleasant to the outside world are home to people who do not agree. They want to be free – but from what?
The Foreign Desk 180 30 min listen
Live music from husband-and-wife duo Tennis, who play from their new album ‘Yours Conditionally’.
The Sessions at Midori House 119 16 min listen
Six decades after its debut, Fender’s Telecaster model remains one of the most iconic and enduring electric guitar designs. What’s more, it was the first commercially successful one. The reason? Sound design, of course.
Section D 5 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
In July 1946, a French automobile engineer turned fashion designer named Louis Réard invented a revealing two-piece swimsuit called the bikini. Réard created a company and made bikinis for decades until his death in the mid-1980s, when the brand went dormant. This week on Eureka we meet Richard Emanuel, the Scottish entrepreneur on a mission to revive Réard to its former glory.
The Entrepreneurs 7 min listen
The population in this small town in the north of Spain’s Catalonian region had become segregated by its own steep topography. The solution? Enlisting a skilled architect to design a camouflaged lift attached to the cliffside.
The Urbanist 292 6 min listen
One of the most important literary events on the planet celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Taking place in a tiny town in Wales, Hay Festival is a party of ideas and stories spread over 800 events in 10 days. We meet some of the big names who’ll be appearing, including Peter Florence, Howard Jacobson, Hannah Rothschild, Philippe Sands, Tahmima Anam, Elif Safak, Cressida Cowell and Sarfraz Manzoor.
Meet the Writers 74 28 min listen
Nina Miranda
The Sessions at Midori House 17 min listen
Jason Isbell
The Sessions at Midori House 15 min listen
Tennis
The Sessions at Midori House 16 min listen
Good enough to eat
The Stack 28 min listen
Reading for keeps
Eureka 51: Chris Kontos
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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