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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Chris Ruen discusses how free content can harm creativity, writer and editor Jacques Testard chats about his new literary press Fitzcarraldo Editions, and historian Joanna Bourke explains the history of pain.
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We look at China’s expanding role in Africa with veteran foreign correspondent Howard W French, chat with Sasha Abramsky about The House of Twenty Thousands Books, and dive down a rabbit hole of big…
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We chat with Paul Charles about his new novel The Lonesome Heart is Angry, discuss the Edinburgh International Festival with outgoing head Sir Jonathan Mills, and meet Tom Saater of the Invisible Borders Trans-African…
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Monocle’s editor Andrew Tuck and culture editor Robert Bound meet the Syrian artist Issam Kourbaj, talk to financial journalist Alex Brummer, and hear the private histories of 20 pianos with the musician Ed McKeon.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound meet author Maria Venegas to find out about her new memoir, chronicling her reconciliation with her father 14 years after his extradition to Mexico on a murder charge. We…
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Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards meet Isabelle Legeron, master of wine and author of a new book on the joys of natural vines. Plus, one of Sri Lanka’s most prominent novelists, Romesh Gunesekera, discusses…
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Robert Bound and Steve Bloomfield speak to Zelda la Grange, author of the memoir ‘Good Morning Mr Mandela’, discussing her life as the former South African president’s private secretary. Plus, we meet the curator…
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The Weekly team speak to US commentator PJ O’Rourke, meet the head of a London gallery celebrating this year’s World Cup, and hear from author Stephen Bates about the grizzly tale of Palmer the…
