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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Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound meet the geographer and designer who have mapped London: The Information Capital. We also reflect on Art and Politics Now with author Dr Anthony Downey and hear about one Armenian-American writer’s transformative journey to Turkey.
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Tom Edwards and Robert Bound talk Sex on Earth with zoologist Jules Howard, hear from Neil McGinness – editor of Weekly World News, and discuss art and science with Dr. Daniel Glaser, director of the Science Gallery.
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Award-winning photographer Davide Monteleone introduces his new exhibition and we meet the directors of new film The Possibilities are Endless, which explores musician Edwyn Collins’ rehabilitation following a stroke.
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Andrew Tuck and Steve Bloomfield meet author Philip Marsden, who has written a book on why people feel so strongly about specific places and landscapes. We also discuss Encyclopedia Paranoiaca, a book that tries to list everything you should or could be afraid of and check the pulse of the…
274
Kylie Minogue pops in for a chat, art critic Mel Gooding demystifies modern art for those who still don’t quite get it and we reveal how new documentary Still The Enemy Within tells the true story of the 1984 miners’ strike.
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We speak to writer Bill Hayton on the unrest in the South China Sea. We also hear about commercial opportunities in Africa and taste wines from Central London’s first winery.
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Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards talk to the former French diplomat professor Jean-Pierre Filiu, who has attempted to write the definitive history of Gaza. Plus, Christopher Simon Sykes describes the challenges of writing a biography for art-great David Hockney, and food artist Sam Bompas presents some mind-altering plants and botanicals.
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On this episode of the Weekly we look to the future with former CIA intelligence analyst Mathew Burrows, talk money with John Lanchester and sample the latest East London liquor with Alexander Wolpert.
