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
189
The team discuss Calcutta with celebrated author Amit Chaudhuri, look at the continuing evolution of street art, and question how to measure time with curator Cathy Haynes.
188
Travis Elborough explains what happened to a piece of English history when it was sold to an American oil baron in the 1960s, we combine economic principles and the rules of love with author William Nicolson and talk British intelligence in the twilight of the Empire with Calder Walton.
187
Royal Academy of Arts chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith discusses the institution’s history, we assess the market value of counterculture with Carl Williams – curator and Maggs Bros Ltd, and Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck chat death metal in Angola with documentary-maker Jeremy Xido.
186
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound are joined by environmentalist Tony Juniper, discuss manners with writer and theatre critic Henry Hitchings, and learn about wartime writers with Dr Lara Feigel.
185
The Weekly team discuss the effect of AIDS on family life with author Marco Roth, find out if the UK should stay in the EU with journalist David Charter, celebrate London Art Fair with its director Jonathan Burton, and take a ride through the London Underground with design historian Mark…
184
Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound discuss Italy’s future with former editor of the Economist Bill Emmott and Italian filmmaker Annalisa Piras, meet author Richard Davenport-Hines to take a fresh look at the Profumo Affair, and meet the singing professor of San Francisco – Arie Perry.
183
The best of 2012, with author Simon Garfield, medical sceptic Ben Goldacre, musician Chilly Gonzales, political advisor Alastair Campbell, reporter Ben Anderson, and a final stroll through London’s most pleasant green spaces.
182
Aisha Speirs and Barrett Austin discuss drug policy with filmmaker Cosmo Feilding Mellen, learn the meaning of Britishness with journalist Colin Brown, tour the railways of India with author Monisha Rajesh, and find out about a Swedish Christmas tradition going up in flames.
