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The best of the week on Monocle, compiled into one show.

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Our weekly highlights include extensive coverage of Salone del Mobile in Milan; a visit to Interpets, the pet industry’s biggest annual event; and the grand finale of season three of ‘The White Lotus’. 

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70413 Apr 2025
52 min

Monocle Radio highlights 

Our weekly highlights include extensive coverage of Salone del Mobile in Milan; a visit to Interpets, the pet industry’s biggest annual event; and the grand finale of season three of ‘The White Lotus’. 

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11 Apr 2025
7 min

What We Learned: iPhones, a fictional economist and a criminal judge 

A look back at this week’s news with Andrew Mueller, including the fictional economic advisor at the heart of Trump’s trade war, the cost of US-made iPhones and a retired São Paulo judge charged with working under a false identity. 

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7036 Apr 2025
52 min

Monocle Radio highlights 

Monocle Radio’s highlights this week include the latest on Marine Le Pen’s conviction, an interview with UK singer-songwriter Shura and The Kyiv Independent publishes its first print magazine.

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904 Apr 2025
7 min

What We Learned: Friday 4 April 

A look back at this week’s news stories with Andrew Mueller. Elon Musk tries to buy votes in Wisconsin, president Trump continues his global-tariff regime and a chocolate thief is banned from the city of Cambridge.

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70230 Mar 2025
52 min

Monocle Radio highlights 

Monocle Radio highlights this week include a preview from our April issue, a report from the Nordic Happiness Summit and a letter from Dakar.

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8928 Mar 2025
7 min

What We Learned: Friday 28 March 

A look back at this week’s news stories with Andrew Mueller including Trump’s unflattering portrait, secret war plans leaking in a group chat and crocodiles at the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.

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70123 Mar 2025
52 min

Monocle Radio highlights 

We celebrate the opening of our new shop and café on Rue Bachaumont in Paris. Then: our interview with the mayor of San Francisco and we speak with the editor of Australian staple ‘Gourmet Traveller’. 

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8821 Mar 2025
7 min

What We Learned: Friday 21 March 

A look back at this week’s news stories with Andrew Mueller. Justice is served in the golden-toilet heist, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, responds to a call for the return of the Statue of Liberty to France and a B-29 bomber becomes the latest DEI casualty.

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70016 Mar 2025
50 min

Highlights from Monocle Radio 

Monocle speaks to the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at the Mipim property fair in Cannes. Plus: the new English-language edition of ‘M Le Magazine du Monde’ and highlights from Matter and Shape, the annual design salon in Paris.

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8715 Mar 2025
7 min

What We Learned: Friday 14 March  

A look back at this week’s news stories, including Trump’s Tesla sales pitch, Canada’s annexation and a Eurovision controversy.

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6999 Mar 2025
50 min

Highlights from Monocle Radio 

Monocle Radio highlights this week include an interview with the CEO of the Saudi Tourism Authority, a check-in from Spain’s biggest art fair and Louis Vuitton’s move into beauty.

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867 Mar 2025
6 min

What We Learned: Friday 7 March 

A look back at this week’s news stories, including the rebirth of the woolly mammoth, the White House spat between US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, and LGBT+ policies in Lesotho.

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6982 Mar 2025
51 min

Highlights from Monocle Radio 

Monocle Radio highlights this week include an interview with the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the latest on protests in Slovakia and how to design office spaces that “earn the commute”. Plus: Japan’s Stationery Awards.

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8528 Feb 2025
6 min

What We Learned: Friday 28 February  

A look back at this week’s news stories, including the new deputy director of the FBI, Trump’s vision for post-war Gaza and Musk’s mass email to federal employees.

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69723 Feb 2025
50 min

Monocle Radio highlights 

Monocle Radio highlights this week include a look at elections in Germany, the best of Estonian pop and an interview with the costume designer of Oscar-nominated film ‘Conclave’.

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