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
High standards
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound hear from film-producer John Smithson, one of the creative forces behind new Bafta-nominated Mount Everest documentary ‘Sherpa’. We also meet author Ayisha Malik, whose novel ‘Sofia Khan is Not Obliged’ documents elements of Muslim culture in London. Plus: we talk to Joseph Seelig, founder and…
Culture shock
Robert Bound and Markus Hippi meet novelist Adam Thirlwell and gallerist Tayah Leigh Barrs to learn how they’re combining art and publishing. We also hear from Grammy-nominated theatre-production duo the Sisters Grimm. Plus: we look back at the life of David Bowie with an archive interview with his personal photographer…
Star turns
Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck hear from global music connoisseur Gilles Peterson about his top tunes of the moment. We also discover why designer Hefin Jones wants to put Welsh design on the map – and also up into space. Plus: Philip Ilson, artistic director of the London Short Film…
2016 lookahead
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound are joined by a selection of Monocle’s bureau chiefs from around the world, in order to find out why 2016 is a year to look forward to across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Toronto bureau chief Tomos Lewsi, our man in Istanbul Chris…
The Best of 2015
Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck look back at a year of great interviews on The Monocle Weekly, featuring guests such as former Sonic Youth man Thurston Moore, astronaut James F. Reilly, sneaker head Jeff Staple, and literary man of the moment Garth Risk Hallberg – and more.
Home for the holidays
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound get a masterclass in perfecting pre-dinner aperitifs with Alex Kammerling of Kamm & Sons. We also hear from author Padraig Rooney about why Swiss-chalet life holds enduring appeal for literature’s great and good. Plus: Caz Hildebrand – the mind behind the look of Nigella Lawson…
Classic cuts
Tom Edwards and Markus Hippi discuss diary-making with Simon Garfield, who has published (with permission) 60 years of diaries from bookseller Jean Lucey Pratt. We also hear from reporter Tim Judah about stories from war-torn Ukraine. Plus: we learn the simple dos and don’ts of how to correctly chop, store…
Off the map
Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards look at map-making with rare-book collector Daniel Crouch, take a surreal trip into the thoughts of John Lennon with author Kevin Barry and meet Roger W Smith, the master watchmaker whose timepieces take years to make and sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Culture clash
Historian W David Marx joins us from Japan to discuss that country’s contribution to classic American style, a topic covered in his new book, ‘Ametora’. We find out why the year 1966 was such an explosive one for pop from Jon Savage who has dedicated a whole tome to it.…
Other lives
Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards talk to Darren Wall about the evolution of video games and his design-led publishing venture Read-Only Memory. We also chat about Iran and what attracted film-makers Tom Allen and Leon McCarron to follow its longest river, the Karun. Plus: we learn why creative Paula Zuccotti…
