20 July 2014
Episode 263
01 hour
Monocle’s editor Andrew Tuck and culture editor Robert Bound meet the Syrian artist Issam Kourbaj, talk to financial journalist Alex Brummer, and hear the private histories of 20 pianos with the musician Ed McKeon.
20 July 2014
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