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Latest Episodes
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Gavin MacFadyen and Rachel Shabi look at Hassan Rouhani’s upcoming visit to the UN and assess the meaning of a meeting with Obama, we discuss the potential for a Syrian ceasefire, and also meet Sir John Sorrell – founder of London Design Festival.
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Brett Mason and Shashank Joshi explain how presidents, dictators and Mullahs use, misuse, and manipulate the media, we chat with author Damian Barr in the Monocle Cafe, and talk transparent speakers and innovation with Swedish industrial designer Martin Willers.
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Defence specialist Robert Fox and political academic Dr James D Boys talk Russian and Brazilian diplomacy, we catch up with the creative brains behind United Arrows, and discuss women’s rights in Egypt with documentary filmmaker Hanan Abdalla.
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Edward Lucas and Raffaello Pantucci ask whether Vladimir Putin is the Machiavelli of geopolitics, we look at great power politics in the Arctic and Central Asia, and Gwyn Miles from the Somerset House Trust talks London Fashion Week and the legacy of Isabella Blow.
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In the first edition of Monocle’s new show – we discuss the latest developments in Syria, ask whether educating foreign leaders improves a country’s soft power, Monocle’s editor Andrew Tuck speaks with William Knight, director of 100% Design, and we’re in San Francisco for the world’s oldest sporting competition, the…
