Music legend Booker T Jones joins us to discuss his long and varied career. We also speak to foreign correspondent Judith Matloff about her new book ‘The War is in the Mountains’, and talk creativity and urbanism with Lebanese artist Nadim Karam, whose show ‘Urban Stories’ opened in London this week.
30 April 2017
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Chapter 1
Introduction
Monocle 24’s Henry Rees-Sheridan joins Robert Bound and Markus Hippi to discuss both last week’s and next week’s news, possibly.
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Chapter 2
Judith Matloff
Journalist and author Judith Matloff was a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years and now teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her latest book is ‘The War is in the Mountains’, looking at why some of the world’s most remote regions fuel some of its most volatile conflicts.
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Chapter 3
Booker T Jones
As the band leader of Booker T and the MGs, musician Booker T Jones has helped create some of the most unmistakable classics of the 20th century and continues to collaborate with and inspire new musicians today. He joins us to discuss playing on standards from the likes of Otis Redding, Sam and Dave and more.
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Chapter 4
Nadim Karam
Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam’s exhibition ‘Urban Stories’ is at The Fine Art Society in London and he found time to drop by Studio 1 to discuss where art and urbanism meet.
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