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The Weekend Edition is a refined mix of music, news and guests to see you through your weekend.
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Highlights from Monocle 24
The Curator 1 hour listen
Expanding the world of wine
The Menu 30 min listen
Let’s get moving
The Urbanist 30 min listen
Publishing
Interviews
Architecture
Business
Music
Literature
We discuss the new lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against those involved with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Plus, we look ahead to this weekend’s election in Paraguay we hear about whether today’s National School Walkout protest can change the gun-control debate in the US.
57 min listen
Monocle’s Asia editor at large, Kenji Hall, explores the close relationship between Donald Trump and Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe.
The Briefing 5 min listen
Monocle’s Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey tells us why the region will be hoping the EU doesn’t freeze its expansion.
The Briefing 6 min listen
The UK’s former ambassador to North Korea John Everard assesses reports that CIA director Mike Pompeo visited Pyongyang over the Easter weekend.
The Globalist 12 min listen
Robert Fox and Mary Kaldor examine the aftermath of the weekend strikes on Syria and discuss the difference between military and humanitarian intervention.
The Globalist 24 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 8 min listen
Monocle on Design 6 min listen
The Monocle Culture Show 15 min listen
The Foreign Desk 6 min listen
The Menu 5 min listen
The Urbanist 6 min listen
The Monocle Arts Review
The Entrepreneurs 6 min listen
We relive some of the great performances from the Sessions’ archives. Music by Bill Ryder-Jones, Jamie Woon, Sunflower Bean and Jaakko Eino Kalevi.
The Sydney-based designer talks about creating ideal plane interiors for long-haul flights, from seats to crockery and fabrics.
Monocle on Design 340 9 min listen
Monocle 24’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco takes us on a delicious tour of his neighbourhood to check out some of his favourite eating spots.
Soriano has been director of exhibitions at institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy; Rideal’s work sits in the Tate and V&A. Together they have created a new book ‘Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women’, looking at the relationship between women and art.
The Monocle Weekly 458 17 min listen
We look at whether art can encourage social change, explore why we immortalise musicians and speak with LA-based forward-thinking musician E Ruscha V about his album ‘Who Are You’. Plus: Jane Robinson on the women’s march of 1913, some Japanese grilling and Kevin Craig with the weekend papers.
The Monocle Arts Review NaN min listen
We speak to Igor Ramirez Garcia Peralta, editor in chief of ‘Solar’ magazine.
The Stack 294 8 min listen
Rome’s Michelin-starred chef on his new London venture and what it takes to launch a successful restaurant business.
The Menu 339 7 min listen
Tom Broughton has always been an eyewear obsessive – ever since he started wearing glasses at the age of seven. In 2012 he began designing and making frames on his kitchen table, not to make money but out of sheer passion. Eventually he garnered a loyal fanbase and what began as a hobby quickly grew into Cubitts, a new London-based eyewear brand that boasts a smart multi-channel model with five bricks-and-mortar shops across the city.
The Entrepreneurs 339 30 min listen
‘Pilot TV’ magazine and ‘Killing Eve’
The Monocle Culture Show 28 min listen
The best in print
The Stack 30 min listen
‘ZEITmagazin’, ‘Pilot TV’ and ‘Record Culture Magazine’
Career change
The Entrepreneurs 30 min listen
Werner Herzog, Kathleen Soriano, Liz Rideal, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler
The Monocle Weekly 1 hour listen
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Big Interview 30 min listen
Extra: Sound design
Latin America’s future builders
Monocle on Design 30 min listen
Building on water
Cubitts
Matthew Corrin, Freshii
How to rebrand
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