The Monocle Weekly
Conversations with authors, artists, and business leaders shaping the world. Monocle’s longest-running show delivers insights and interviews weekly.
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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…
Robin Lustig, Nathan Hill and Andrew Wong
Journalist and foreign-affairs specialist Robin Lustig joins us to discuss his life as a newsman, as detailed in his new book ‘Is Anything Happening?’ We also meet Nathan Hill, writer of ‘The Nix’ –…
Ben Fountain, Dan Tickner and Mark Craig
Author Ben Fountain reflects on the week that saw Donald Trump inaugurated as the US president and tells us how his book ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ – which has been adapted by Oscar-winning…
Dale Pinnock, Ed Eisler and Tomos Lewis
Dale Pinnock, known as the ‘medicinal chef’, gives Robert Bound and Tom Edwards food for thought as we start the new year. We also find out where to find the world’s best teas with…
