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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

#266 10 Aug 2014

266

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.

#265 03 Aug 2014

265

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…

#264 27 Jul 2014

264

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…

#263 20 Jul 2014

263

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.

#262 13 Jul 2014

262

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…

#261 06 Jul 2014

261

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…

#260 29 Jun 2014

260

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…

#259 22 Jun 2014

259

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…

#258 15 Jun 2014

258

The Weekly team speak to 17-year-old Haris Suleman who wants to complete a flight around the world in record time, discuss the situation in Russia with author Vanora Bennett and learn about the “real”…

#257 08 Jun 2014

257

The Monocle Weekly team are joined former Labour MP David Marquand to discuss whether the UK has turned into a nation of greed, meet John Sutherland to learn how to be well-read, and discover…

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