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25 June 2012
A visit to Cannes Lions creativity festival, a literary festival on the river Thames and we learn what Sonar Festival’s musicians are reading in Barcelona.
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25 June 2012
A visit to Cannes Lions creativity festival, a literary festival on the river Thames and we learn what Sonar Festival’s musicians are reading in Barcelona.
30 May 2016
Running through the heart of London, the River Thames has long been the lifeblood of the city’s commerce, leisure and worship. We immerse ourselves in its rich liquid history.
18 January 2012
Monocle’s foreign editor challenges the True Finns party's presidential candidate and we explore the possibility of a new airport in the River Thames estuary.
6 December 2011
We meet the man who saved Polaroid, hear about an unusual project on the river Thames and get the idiot’s guide to credit rating agencies.
22 December 2016
We bring you highlights from 2016’s ‘Tall Stories’, including a tale of the river Thames, the Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial and Singapore’s Cavenagh Bridge.
15 June 2016
The US political debate after the Orlando assault, the UN facing accusations of breaching its own principles in Syria and a bizarre River Thames clash between the two camps in the EU referendum battle.
14 June 2015
Boundary-breaking British designer Thomas Heatherwick speaks to Monocle’s Andrew Tuck about building a business, revamping the great London bus and the inspiration to place people – and plants – at the heart of the River…
23 August 2014
Gillian Dobias looks back at the best of the week on Monocle 24 including a meeting with Spain’s crusading judge Baltasar Garzón, hear the best from Wales’s Green Man festival, and find out why taking a dip in London’s much…
26 April 2015
Robert Bound and Tom Edwards meet photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson to discuss the young skateboarding girls of Kabul, hear about the history of swimming in the River Thames with writer Caitlin Davies and learn why the…
19 August 2014
Section D heads to Australia to hear from some of those making design happen in Sydney, we take an imaginary dip in the river Thames where Studio Octopi has unveiled plans to create a floating swimming pool, judge books by…
8 September 2019
For over 20 years Lara Maiklem has strolled the foreshore of London’s River Thames in search of treasures from the past. She joins us to discuss what she’s learned, as outlined in her new bestseller, ‘Mudlarking’. Plus: we…
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