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
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Artists Rob and Nick Carter explain their solo show Chinese Whispers, editor Joe Warwick discusses the new edition of Where Chefs Eat, and we explore art in post-Soviet states with Josephine Burton.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound are joined by Professor Robert Tombs, who explains the turbulent and multifaceted history of the English, the duo also delve into the past of London’s Old Vic theatre with author Terry Coleman, and meet film-critic Anna Smith.
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Andrew Tuck and Rob Bound meet The Rolling Stones photographer Gered Mankowitz, talk to Ziauddin Sardar about his new book on Mecca and get Peter York’s New Year’s Eve do’s and don’ts.
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James Ferguson from London’s Beagle restaurant explains the perfect Christmas dinner and Eden Collinsworth discusses her career as a publisher and etiquette expert. Plus: Taschen’s Nina Wiener on Norman Mailer’s coverage of John F Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
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Our original Sunday show is hosted by Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck, covering key interviews of the week and looking ahead to the next seven days.
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Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards meet Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, to discuss the future of private medical provisions and there’s also a visit from one of Colombia’s most revered novelists, Tomás González. Plus, musicians Orphy Robinson and Paul Bradshaw assess John Coltrane’s jazz masterpiece, A Love Supreme, 50 years…
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Tom Edwards and Andrew Tuck celebrate the radical nudes of Egon Schiele as they meet the curator behind an exhibition of his work. We also discover how the North Sea helped give rise to the modern world and talk great resignations with writer Matt Potter.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound hear from the author of a new book putting psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein in the limelight and meet Damon Murray to discuss Fuel’s Russian criminal tattoo archive. Plus: photographer Abbie Trayler-Smith gives us a snapshot of her work.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound meet advertising luminary and AMV co-founder Peter Mead as he explains why it pays to be nice in business. Plus: the 19th-century inventions that didn’t change the world and an appreciation of Brazilian art.
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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound look at the work of photography great Edward Steichen, learn from polyglot Gaston Dorren about the quirks and histories of European languages and hear from the co-founder of New York’s first operational whisky distillery since the prohibition era.
