The Monocle Weekly
Conversations with authors, artists, and business leaders shaping the world. Monocle’s longest-running show delivers insights and interviews weekly.
Latest Episodes
Kanishk Tharoor, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Tom Jeffreys
Writer and journalist Kanishk Tharoor explains his short-story collection ‘Swimmer Among the Stars’. Plus, we speak with scuba-diving philosopher Paul Godfrey-Smith about underwater life and his book ‘Other Minds’, and learn why writer Tom…
Richard Wentworth, Yasmeen Ismail and Jeffrey Young
Artist Richard Wentworth discusses new group show “Architecture as Metaphor” and explains how city life influences his work. Plus: we preview the London Coffee Festival with its founder Jeffrey Young and illustrator and author…
William Sitwell, Michael Rakowitz and Stacey Tenenbaum
We welcome back food writer and critic William Sitwell to discuss ‘The Really Quite Good British Cookbook’ – celebrating both the local and global influences on British dishes. Plus, conceptual artist Michael Rakowitz explains…
Matthew Herbert, Val McDermid and Andrew Martin
Musician Matthew Herbert explains his Brexit Big Band project that’s designed to celebrate European collaboration, we meet crime writer Val McDermid to discuss the Wellcome Book Prize and science’s role in literature, and novelist…
Rodney Graham, Paul Keedwell and Roberto Fonseca
Canadian visual artist Rodney Graham stops by the studio to discuss his new career retrospective “Rodney Graham: That’s not Me”, and new album “Gondoliers”. Plus: a psychiatry and mood expert explains his book “Headspace:…
Kelly Reichardt, Steven Cantor, Gabrielle Tana and Hugo Chapman
Director Kelly Reichardt on her new film ‘Certain Women’, the British Museum’s Hugo Chapman on how the US reacts to social change via art and print and film-makers Steven Cantor and Gabrielle Tana on…
Survive, Tiffanie Darke, Chris Sidwells and Matt Barbet
We’re joined by Survive, the Texan electronic band whose members created the hit soundtrack for Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’. Plus: journalist Tiffanie Darke considers what it means to belong to Generation X and cycling specialists…
Ling Lee, Nadine Chahine, Alicia Bastos and DJ Limao
We talk to Ling Lee, co-curator of ‘Robots’, the new exhibition at London’s Science Museum, which looks at the relationship between humans and our mechanical friends. Plus: typographer Nadine Chahine on how to make…
Bettany Hughes, Ander Monson and Philip Hook
We retrace Istanbul’s identities with Bettany Hughes, author of ‘Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities’. Essayist Ander Monson explains writing project ‘March Fadness’, which celebrates music’s one-hit wonders. And Philip Hook, senior director from…
Derek Thompson, Graham Fink and Julius Wiedemann
We learn the secret ingredients and shadowy forces behind what creates a hit – be it a song, app or meme – with Derek Thompson, author of new book ‘Hit Makers’. Plus, artist and…
