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
Ash Koosha, Rebecca Roke and Max Stafford-Clark
Iranian musician Ash Koosha discusses his forward-thinking electronica and the cultures that inform it, while Rebecca Roke tells us why her book ‘Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things’ is celebrating the small. Plus: theatre director Max…
Jonathan Yeo, Amber Fares, Maysoon Jayyusi and Patrick Perrin
Portrait artist Jonathan Yeo talks about his new retrospective in Denmark, while film-maker Amber Fares and street-racer Maysoon Jayyusi discuss burning rubber in the Middle East. Plus: Patrick Perrin previews the Pad art fair…
Ben Ratliff, Ming Veevers Carter and Nick McDonell
Ben Ratliff discusses music and his book ‘Every Song Ever’, floral designer Ming Veevers Carter delivers a masterclass in flower arranging and author and journalist Nick McDonell reflects on the nomadic lifestyle.
Mira Awad, Marion Deuchars, Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley
Singer and actress Mira Awad reflects on her Arab-Israeli heritage, illustrator and author Marion Deuchars discusses new book ‘Bob the Artist’ and whisky experts Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley raise the bar.
Greg Quinton, Dennis Morris and Arthur Jeffes
Advertising creative Greg Quinton talks the Weekly team through his revised edition of classic branding book ‘A Smile in the Mind’. Meanwhile, photographer and artist Dennis Morris discusses his design of Public Image Limited’s…
Dana Thomas, Wuon-Gean Ho and John Darlington
Fashion-writer Dana Thomas reflects on Alexander McQueen, John Galliano and London’s style identity. Meanwhile, artist and printmaker Wuon-Gean Ho delivers a print masterclass. And finally John Darlington of The World Monuments Fund Britain talks…
Dean Burnett, Will Hawkes and Nancy Campbell
Neuroscientist and comedian Dean Burnett explains the brain and beer-writer Will Hawkes stops by for some brews. Plus: poet and artist Nancy Campbell takes us on a verbal tour of Greenland.
The bigger picture
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound discuss this week’s sale of a Francis Bacon masterpiece with its seller, art writer Michael Peppiatt. Meanwhile, Italian film-director Luca Guadagnino talks through his new release ‘A Bigger Splash’,…
Bold futures
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound talk to Rod Nordland, international correspondent and Kabul bureau chief for ‘The New York Times’, about his new book ‘The Lovers’. We also meet architecture curator, critic and author…
Game changers
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound sit down with reporter Jack Shenker to learn where Egypt and the legacy of the Arab Spring might be headed. We also talk to psychology expert Maria Konnikova about…
