The Monocle Daily

Sets the agenda in Asia and considers what’s been dominating the day in Europe and North America. The programme is sometimes co-hosted out of our Toronto and New York bureaux and features regular interviews with special guests both there and across the Americas, as well as experts and analysts at our studios in London.

Friday 24 May: 

As Theresa May announces she will stand down, we look back on her attempt to lead the UK during the era of Brexit. Plus: we recap a big election week in India and we hear from film-maker Maryam Touzani at the Cannes Film Festival.

Wednesday 22 May: 

We analyse the growing calls for impeachment in Washington, learn why Indonesia’s election has resulted in violence and get the latest from our correspondent at the Cannes Film Festival.

Monday 20 May: 

We discuss the results of the Indian election, learn why former Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is now aiming to be vice-president and hear the latest on Switzerland’s recent referendum on gun laws.

Thursday 16 May: 

We discuss the increasing challenges for Huawei as Donald Trump declares a national emergency in the US regarding the ambitions of the Chinese telecoms brand. Plus, Boris Johnson finally declares his interest in becoming the British prime minister, and we look back on the life and career of former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke.

Tuesday 14 May: 

We get the latest on the US-China trade war and ask whether Beijing has toned down the nationalist rhetoric in response to the latest round of tariffs. Plus: we ask what Bolsonaro and Trump are agreeing upon beyond their mutual admiration and get a preview of the Cannes Film Festival.

Friday 10 May: 

Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is pressing Ukraine’s new president to proceed with a series of investigations ahead of the 2020 US election. Plus: the tricky business of being an independent MP, the limits of activism in the classroom and the latest from the Venice Biennale.

Wednesday 8 May: 

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Susanne Craig explains how Donald Trump’s tax history exposes his self-made myth. Plus: South Africa’s crucial election, ageism in Australia and sex education in schools.