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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Robert Bound and Tom Edwards meet Willem Marx – one of the only journalists to have crossed into the Balochistan region of Pakistan. Plus, we trace the history of one of the most important inventions ever – paper – and we ask if there really is such a thing as…
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We ask journalist Carlotta Gall whether the US has been fighting the wrong enemy in Afghanistan. We also discuss the preposterous history of the Postcard Records label with author Simon Goddard and ponder why other people have such bad taste with music journalist Carl Wilson.
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We discuss senior fashion with Ari Seth Cohen, the man behind blog ‘Advanced Style’. We also meet Iranian photographer Azadeh Akhlaghi, who re-enacts infamous murder scenes from her country’s history, and discuss flight-free travel with author Ed Gillepsie.
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The Weekly team look back at 150 years of John Lewis, Jacob Soll discusses his new book ‘The Reckoning’, and George Butler explains why illustration is his preferred medium for reporting from war zones.
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Andrew Tuck and Tom Edwards host this week’s edition of the Monocle Weekly, featuring interviews with author John Spurling, founder of “movement creators” Purpose, Jeremy Heimans, and the now-former administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, Sig Gissler.
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Filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins joins Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound to discuss his documentary ‘A Story of Children and Film’. Danny Rhodes discusses his new book, ‘Fan’, a tribute to the Hillsborough disaster, and Dr Mike Martin explains the lessons to be learned from the war in Afghanistan.
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The Weekly team explore the apartheid-era exploits of mysterious Frenchman Jean Yves Ollivier – as exposed in new documentary, “Plot for Peace”. Author Michael Bear explains his new book, “Expat Etiquette: How to Look Good in Bad Places”, and we also peruse the weird world of vernacular photography.
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We meet Phil Klay, author of ‘Redeployment’, chat with Andrew Lycett about his biography of Wilkie Collins and discuss a new photography exhibition on Rwanda with Dr Zoe Norridge.
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Robert Bound and Tom Edwards discuss the world’s most powerful address with author Michael Gross, Andrew Pettegree explains the origin of news and Rebecca Gowers gives lessons from her book ‘Plain Words: A Guide to the Use of English’.
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We paint a portrait of 21st-century Delhi with acclaimed writer Rana Dasgupta, hear which lovelorn character in Peter Froberg Idling’s new novel ‘Song For An Approaching Storm’ turned into one of the 20th century’s greatest monsters, and we look at why Paris’s banlieues are simmering, with the author of ‘The…
