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Monocle Minute

Roman holidays

16 April 2016

A little sunshine can be all it takes for people to start talking holidays so springtime Rome made the perfect backdrop for this week’s Confimprese conference on Italian tourism, hosted in the opulent former national ass…

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The Menu - Food Neighbourhoods #385: Roman Road, London

21 May 2024

This week we’re joined by Dara Klein of Tiella at the Compton Arms in London. She gives us her drinking-and-dining recommendations for her corner of the city, Roman Road.

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The Stack - Roman Coppola and Johan Chiaramonte on their new magazine ‘Enthousiasmos’

29 June 2024

This week on The Stack we speak with Roman Coppola and Johan Chiaramonte on their new magazine, ‘Enthousiasmos’, featuring Luca Guadagnino on the cover. Plus: US author and stationery connoisseur Brett F Braley-Palko.

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The Monocle Weekly - Werner Herzog, Kathleen Soriano, Liz Rideal, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler

15 April 2018

We discuss communication with Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler, authors of new title ‘The Communication Book’. We also hear from Werner Herzog about why he’s passing on his directing skills to a new generation and…

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Culture

18 March 2010

Roman Polanski's new drama The Ghost, music picks from gospel to "geyser-pop", the new books we've been reading.

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Europe

17 October 2013

What the president of the Sami parliament wears, what Iceland's foreign minister thinks and why Italian senators are doing as the Romans did.

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The Globalist - Thursday 31 August

31 August 2017

We assess Brussels’ unhappiness with the Brexit negotiations, discuss what Japan and the UK have in common and hear about what Romans think of the city’s public statues.

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The Monocle Weekly, episode 68

18 July 2010

Following Switzerland's controversial decision this week not to extradite Roman Polanski, the Monocle Weekly team kick of this edition with a discussion on Swiss/US relations.

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Thinking ahead

8 December 2015

Roman roads that still lead the way, the future of the EU, the sheer pleasure of swinging an axe and a few more subjects to fire up your imagination and get you talking in 2016.

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Cihangir

17 August 2007

The Romans, Byzantines and the Ottomans all recognised the importance of Istanbul as a strategic gateway between the West and the East. Oddly occidental and strikingly Asian, the city is surprising its visitors with a new…

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Galicia, Spain

28 December 2024

Once known to Romans as the ‘end of the world’, secluded inns and superior seafood now make Spain’s northwestern corner the beginning of an extraordinary escape.

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Let’s talk about this

18 November 2010

How do you persuade a Somali pirate to release his hostages or rebel kidnappers to let their abductees go? We meet the negotiators out to fix the world in 2011.

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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 241: Monte Testaccio, Rome

25 January 2021

We look to an ancient Roman waste-management technique that has permanently shaped the city’s topography.

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The Entrepreneurs - Edition 63

26 December 2012

On this special Christmas edition of The Entrepreneurs, we discover a Roman business finding inspiration from rummaging through the past, and head to Warsaw to meet three entrepreneurs using an abandoned factory to create…

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Meet the Writers - Monocle Reads: Asa Bennett

12 December 2019

Monocle Reads: Asa Bennet talks to Georgina Godwin about his new book, ‘Romanifesto’. Boris Johnson loves to chuck in the odd Latin phrase but perhaps without due regard for Veritas. In this, is he much different from the…

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The Briefing - Tuesday 4 July

4 July 2017

We ask if we should believe North Korea’s missile-test claims and discuss Brazil’s tradition of political coalitions. Plus: we ponder China’s space ambitions and look at why the Romans are turning off their water fountains…