The Monocle Arts Review
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Tuneful June
From the latest album releases to new music docs via all-singing all-dancing Broadway for the Tony awards and the Brazilian charts, we get musical on this week’s Monocle Arts Review. Robert Bound is joined by chief rock and pop critic for ‘The Times’, Will Hodgkinson, and film critic Jason Solomons…
Top TV picks for June
Ben Rylan is joined in the studio by writer Lucy Jones and TV editor at London Live Toby Earle to discuss their highlights on Netflix and Amazon Prime this month. Plus we nip over to São Paulo for some Japanese culture and find out what’s at number one in Belgium…
Cannes Film Festival 2017
Tom Edwards is joined in the studio by film critics Anna Smith and Tim Robey to wrap up this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Elsewhere on the show we find out about a new book, ‘The Poetry of Pop’, and chat to Turkish musicians Baba Zula about making music in an…
Art: in bottles, on bumper cars and bringing midcentury New York to life
Matt Alagiah is joined in the studio by Matt Wolf, theatre critic for the ‘The New York Times International Edition’, and Nancy Durrant, commissioning editor for ‘The Times Arts’, to discuss the week in London theatre and art. Plus: we take a dodgem ride around an arts festival by the…
Podcasts, photographs and independent filmmaking
We review the latest book and podcast releases with publisher John Mitchinson and writer Pete Naughton. Plus: art adviser Kathlene Fox-Davies gives us her take on Photo London, we meet a film producer to find out just how difficult it is to get your film on the big screen and…
Eurovision
Ben Rylan is joined in the studio by Eurovision experts Chris West and Frances Robinson to discuss this year’s extravaganza in Kiev. Plus: our Eurovision correspondent Fernando Augusto Pacheco is on the ground to take us behind the scenes of this year’s show and we find out what it is…
Film round-up, Venice Biennale and Damien Hirst
Film critic Jason Solomons rounds up what’s on at the cinema this week, while art critic Jane Morris fills us in on the highlights of the Venice Biennale and Damien Hirst’s gargantuan new exhibition. Plus: the Photo London art fair, political cartoonist Willem and what’s at number one in the…
Top TV, Italian publishing and the ‘global novel’
Robert Bound, Alice Vincent, arts and entertainment writer for ‘The Telegraph’, and DJ and broadcaster Georgie Rogers round up some of the week’s TV and music releases. Plus: we discover the Italian publishers to know, discuss the “global novel” with poet and critic Adam Kirsch and learn about what classical…
Broadway, books and Brazilian art
With the Tony nominations on the horizon, we dial up theatre critic Matt Wolf in New York to see who’s doing well on Broadway. Plus: we talk April novels with ‘Elle’ magazine’s literary critic Sharmaine Lovegrove, take a look at some Brazilian art and cast an eye over photography in…
April’s films, ‘S-Town’ and China’s music chart
Ben Rylan chats to film critics Karen Krizanovich and Tim Robey about this month’s cinema releases, we get to grips with the latest podcast sensation ‘S-Town’ and we take the temperature of Canada’s music scene. Plus: we discover the must-see theatre production in London this week and the number-one single…
