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Hear our take on the news and enjoy sharp reporting on the big stories every weekday. Tune in as our guest panel reviews the day’s events in Europe, follows developing stories in the Americas and welcomes early risers in Asia and Australasia. Plus: reports and analysis from Monocle’s correspondents and bureaux around the world. Nominated for ‘Best Daily Podcast’ in the 2022 British Podcast Awards.

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Wednesday 22 March :

We report as French president Emmanuel Macron defends his controversial pension reforms. Plus: Boris Johnson is questioned by MPs, Sudan’s military sets out plans for a civilian government, and we profile some easily offended leaders. Also in the show: a conversation with Angelle Siyang-Le, director of Art Basel Hong Kong.

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242722 Mar 2023
40 min

Wednesday 22 March : 

We report as French president Emmanuel Macron defends his controversial pension reforms. Plus: Boris Johnson is questioned by MPs, Sudan’s military sets out plans for a civilian government, and we profile some easily offended leaders. Also in the show: a conversation with Angelle Siyang-Le, director of Art Basel Hong Kong.

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242621 Mar 2023
40 min

Tuesday 21 March: 

Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, visits Kyiv while China’s Xi Jinping is in Moscow. Barbara Serra and John Everard also discuss Donald Trump’s legal troubles and Egypt and Turkey’s thawing relations. Plus: global music trends with Fernando Augusto Pacheco.

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242520 Mar 2023
40 min

Monday 20 March: 

The fallout from the UBS takeover of Credit Suisse. In the studio, Yossi Mekelberg and Rachel Cunliffe discuss the legacy of the Iraq war, 20 years on, and Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow. Plus: what makes the Nordics so good at diplomacy?

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242417 Mar 2023
40 min

Friday 17 March: 

The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, while Ankara gives the green light to Finland’s Nato accession. Plus: do we need rules on rudeness in political spaces? And Henry Rees-Sheridan’s Letter from New York.

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242316 Mar 2023
40 min

Thursday 16 March: 

We discuss the split among US Republicans over support for Ukraine and the perception of most Europeans that Russia is an adversary. Also in the show: we explore food diplomacy and whether competition between colleagues is a good thing. With Carole Walker and Vincent McAviney. Plus: On This Day in 1978, Italy’s former prime minister was kidnapped.

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242215 Mar 2023
40 min

Wednesday 15 March: 

Moscow says US-Russian relations are in a “lamentable state” after an American drone and Russian jet collided over the Black Sea; Isabel Hilton and Stephen Dalziel discuss. Also on the show, Honduras turns away from Taiwan and towards China, the Oxford English Dictionary adds Maori words and the Japanese classes that are teaching people how to smile. Plus: Australian musician Robert Forster pays a visit during his UK tour.

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242114 Mar 2023
40 min

Tuesday 14 March: 

China responds to the submarine deal between the UK, Australia and the US. Plus: Paris’s rubbish collectors strike over pension reforms, getting Brits back to work and would you hand in £200,000 worth of cash you found on the street? With Simon Brooke and Terry Stiastny.

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242013 Mar 2023
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Monday 13 March: 

The latest on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. In the studio, James Rodgers and Daniella Peled ask what would make Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, back down on the country’s controversial judicial reforms. Plus: how the Ukraine war has affected the global arms trade and a row in the UK over the BBC’s impartiality.

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241910 Mar 2023
40 min

Friday 10 March: 

Iran and Saudi Arabia restore relations. Plus: Laura Kramer and Fernando Augusto Pacheco look ahead to the Oscars on Sunday, review Eurovision tracks and discuss their upcoming holiday plans.

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24189 Mar 2023
40 min

Thursday 9 March: 

The European Union seeks to establish the outlines of a trade deal with the US tomorrow. Plus: an escalation of violence in Afghanistan as an Islamic State-affiliated organisation claims several deadly attacks, the French Senate’s vote to raise the retirement age by two years to 64 and the launch of Monocle’s new travel programme, ‘The Concierge’.

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24178 Mar 2023
40 min

Wednesday 8 March : 

The UN secretary-general meets Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv amid concerns that Russia will refuse to extend a multilateral grain deal. Plus: US Republicans are split over Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and the UK introduces new sanctions on 'global violators of women’s rights'.

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24167 Mar 2023
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Tuesday 7 March: 

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is doubling down on defending Bakhmut – but what would happen if Kyiv retreats? Panellists Marie Le Conte and Steve Cannane discuss this, as well as the protests over pension reform in France and the UK’s plan to remove migrants arriving on small boats. Plus: should the workplace have a soundtrack? And we look at the new book ‘Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware’.

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24156 Mar 2023
40 min

Monday 6 March: 

As protests break out in Tehran following the suspected poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls, we discuss what we know so far. Plus: why Joe Biden is promising to strengthen US voting rights, the UN High Seas Treaty that took almost two decades to get right and why Toblerone is facing a rebrand.

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24143 Mar 2023
40 min

Friday 3 March: 

Laura Kramer and Tom Webb take a look at the US increase of its military assistance in Somalia. Plus: we shed a light on a day of fake news and wrap the latest stories in the animal world. Markus Hippi and Fernando Augusto Pacheco join us to discuss Finland and Brazil’s state of mind and we have Henry Rees-Sheridan’s Letter from New York.

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24132 Mar 2023
40 min

Thursday 2 March: 

The US agrees to send arms to Taiwan as Western allies warn China not to arm Russia. Plus: President Macron’s tour of central Africa, a row over journalistic ethics in the UK and which are the best careers for young people? With Alex von Tunzelmann and Jonathan Fenby. Plus: On This Day in 1969, the first test flight of Concorde.

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