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
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’, starring Tilda Swinton. Plus: Tim Ellison of London’s Postal Museum explains the historic quirk of sending…
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 Lucy Bullivant to hear about new urban thinking at the Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture. Plus:…
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 the murky world of confidence tricksters. Plus: we try to trace the links between art that…
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…
