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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As the UK prepares to celebrate Guy Fawkes night we explore the history of fireworks with author and academic Simon Werret and we meet Dutch writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen who is exploring Russia’s Olympic city, Sochi.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound are joined by former BBC foreign correspondent Tim Sebastian and Buzzfeed’s foreign editor Miriam Elder to ask whether the foreign correspondent as we know it is “dead”, we air a special report on music in Mali, and chronicle the life of the woman described as…
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Steve Bloomfield and Tom Edwards discuss ideology with documentary-maker Sophie Fiennes, look at science in new ways with biologist and writer John Bohannon, and hear from the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize, Eleanor Catton.
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Steve Bloomfield and Tom Edwards meet film soundtrack composer Simon Fisher Turner, talk art and apes with zoologist Desmond Morris, and learn about Victorian life with author and journalist Simon Heffer.
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Steve Bloomfield and Markus Hippi meet author and diarist David Plante, learn about the London Contemporary Orchestra with conductor Hugh Brunt, and get a preview of the London Restaurant Festival with Adam Coghlan.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound meet philanthropy advisor Theresa Lloyd and Rosetrees Trust chief Richard Ross, to learn why the super-rich give their fortunes away. Plus, the team meet artist Peter Liversidge and the accordion-wielding band Bohemianauts to discuss London’s great cabaret renaissance.
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Andrew Tuck and Gillian Dobias hear how technology is improving human intelligence with writer Clive Thompson, learn the compelling story of the Belarus Free Theatre Company with its artistic director Natalia Kaliada, and look ahead to London’s most forward-thinking event – FutureFest – with its curator, Pat Kane.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound meet photography curator Greg Hobson to discuss a new gallery at London’s Science Museum, hear from economist and political philosopher Robert and Edward Skidelsky, and learn about the decline of the bee population with filmmaker Markus Imhoof.
