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
Creative Freedoms
Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards meet PEN International president John Ralston Saul to discuss freedom of expression, learn how to make films in one of the toughest environments on earth with Farida Pacha, and hear from art-rock icon Thurston Moore about his latest collaboration with Christian Marclay and The Vinyl…
Drone logic
Tom Edwards and Andrew Tuck discuss drones with film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei, learn how to create a revolution with Srda Popovic and ask how you smuggle a live monkey in an overcoat with ex-customs officer Jon Frost.
Art’s voice
Robert Bound and Tom Edwards meet Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller to discuss the UK election, talk record-shop culture with Richard King and learn why the Japanese run with author Adharanand Finn.
Acting up
Robert Bound and Steve Bloomfield meet playwright Tom Morton-Smith to talk about explosive new play ‘Oppenheimer’, hear about the life of mercurial pop legend Lee Hazlewood with writer Wyndham Wallace and look at London’s literary greats in the dead of night with Matthew Beaumont.
Jon Ronson on public shaming
Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards meet Jon Ronson to talk about public shaming, learn how Tony Blair makes his money with David Hencke and shoot for the moon with astronaut James F Reilly.
Into the nether
We discuss the darkly comic side of family life with ‘Force Majeure’ film director Ruben Östlund, talk to Norwegian journalist and author Åsne Seierstad about the build-up and aftermath of the Utøya massacre in 2011 and hear from American playwright Jennifer Haley about her new play ‘The Nether’.
Touch, photography and Monopoly
We celebrate the sense of touch with neuroscience professor David J Linden and go window shopping through the iron curtain with photographer David Hlynsky. Plus, writer Mary Pilon talks us through the real story of Monopoly; it’s not quite what you might expect.
Trading places
Dominick Tyler walks us through the lush photographic lexicon of the British landscape and writer Mark Gevisser discusses his memoir ‘Lost and Found in Johannesburg’. Plus, we hear about a new exhibition exploring the failures of modernism and urban regeneration.
Literary arts
Featuring Juliet Wilson-Bareau on ‘Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album’, Oliver Kamm on his new book ‘Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage’, and Dominic Dromgoole from Shakespeare’s Globe on ‘Globe to Globe Hamlet’.
Global snapshot
We report on a new exhibition highlighting forgotten images from Libya’s past, Ann Morgan introduces new book ‘Reading The World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer’ and a behind-the-scenes look at Studio 54.
