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
Sam Mendes, Nicolas Godin and Radie Peat
We meet Oscar-winning director Sir Sam Mendes to learn more about his First World War epic, ‘1917’. Plus: Nicolas Godin – one half of French electro-rocking legends, Air -– talks us through his latest…
The year ahead
As the new decade dawns, Monocle’s Rob Bound and Augustin Macellari look ahead to 2020 with Jacques Testard, founder of London’s influential publishing house, Fitzcarraldo Editions. Plus, Clare Gough, director of Pitzhanger Manor and…
Best of 2019
Rob Bound and Augustin Macellari look back at 2019, revisiting the conversations and motifs that made the year. A conservateur and a mudlark explain how a tactile engagement with the past can facilitate time…
Chris Maynard, Eleonora Biason and Hereward Tilton
Chris Maynard, author of cult Usborne children’s book, ‘All About Ghosts’, joins us to discuss his work on a publication that sent chills up the spines of a generation of kids. Plus, a Christmas…
Destroyer, Philipp Humm, Martin Hancock and Marie-Elsa Bragg
We meet musician Dan Bejar, better known as Destroyer, to find out about his forthcoming album, ‘Have We Met’. Plus: CEO-turned-filmmaker Philipp Humm and actor Martin Hancock discuss their adaptation of Goethe’s ‘Faust’, and…
Yann Tiersen, Humphrey Ocean and Art Basel in Miami Beach
Musician and composer Yann Tiersen talks about collaboration, misinterpretation and going analogue as he releases his new album, ‘Portrait’. Plus: Humphrey Ocean, one of the UK’s great painters, discusses his 50-year career, and our…
André Aciman, Francesca Cartier Brickell and Jockum Nordström
André Aciman, author of ‘Call Me By Your Name’ tells us why he wanted to revisit the characters in its recent sequel, ‘Find Me’. Plus: we speak to Francesca Cartier Brickell, a scion of…
Rana Foroohar, Xylouris White and Emma Lewis
We meet Rana Foroohar, FT columnist and author of ‘Don’t be Evil,’ a new book that explores just how and when Big Tech lost its way. Plus: Greco-Australian duo Xylouris White talk turning the…
Simon Gillespie, Bradford Parkinson and Hugo Fruehauf, Pelin Opcin
We meet painting conservator Simon Gillespie in his studio to learn more about the fine art of his profession – and get up close and personal with some truly amazing paintings. Plus: as they…
Ben Lerner, Eleanor Pinfield and Larry Achiampong
Novelist and poet Ben Lerner discusses how his new book, ‘The Topeka School’ explores language, masculinity and violence in Trump’s America. Plus: Eleanor Pinfield, head of Art on the Underground, unpacks the project’s mission…
