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Venice Biennale 2024
Monocle on Culture - April 29, 2024 18:35 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWe bring you our dispatch from the 60th edition of the world’s most prestigious art event, which takes the temperature of contemporary art right now. In the first of two programmes, we meet the artists behind the Ethiopian, South Korean and Romanian pavilions. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
Ukrainian troops withdraw from Donetsk
The Briefing - April 29, 2024 11:41 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 80 ratingsGround losses on Ukraine’s battlefield come amid delays to military aid from allies, the prime minister of Spain and first minister of Scotland both face decisions about their future, and we find out how Austria is dealing with its espionage problem. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
IDA for Africa Heads of State Summit and Habitat’s 60th anniversary
The Globalist - April 29, 2024 07:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsHannah McCarthy joins us to discuss the latest from Gaza. Also in the programme: Tara O’Connor explores the IDA for Africa Heads of State Summit in Nairobi, where leaders are meeting to discuss the continent’s financing and security. Also in the programme: we speak to Sebastian Conran, designer ...
The future of artificial intelligence with Geoffrey Hinton and De Kai
The Bulletin with UBS - April 28, 2024 23:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsProfessor Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI”, discusses the future of artificial intelligence with his former collaborator De Kai in a special edition of the programme recorded at the UBS Greater China Conference earlier this year. Does the ri...
Monocle Radio highlights
The Curator - April 27, 2024 23:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe interview chef Endo Kazutoshi, look at a new magazine about road trips and learn how Norway is leveraging its soft-power assets to promote its brand abroad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Celebrating writers of colour and the week in news and culture
Monocle on Saturday - April 27, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutesWriter and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied joins the show to discuss the potential attack in Darfur, Ukraine halting passport services and why UK South Asian garment stores are suffering. Author and playwright Guy Gunaratne joins the show to talk about ‘The Review’, a new journal by the Jhalak F...
Modern French dining
The Menu - April 26, 2024 18:16 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis week, we’re delving into modern French dining – away from the nation’s confines. We sit down with the founder of Bistro Freddie in London to find out why a wave of new French-inspired spots has been popping up throughout the city and beyond. Also in the programme: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson ...
What We Learned: Friday 16 April
The Curator - April 26, 2024 16:46 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this week’s whimsical news monologue, Andrew Mueller covers the temperature in the courtroom holding Donald Trump’s trial, Mississippi observing Confederate History Month and the results of this year’s European gull-screeching championship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Antony Blinken meets with Xi Jinping during a warning of crossing ‘red lines’
The Briefing - April 26, 2024 11:48 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 80 ratingsUS secretary of state Antony Blinken meets with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, TikTok’s parent company insists that it has no plans to sell the social-media company and Boeing burns through $4bn (€3.7bn). Plus: what to watch this weekend in our TV and film Friday wrap. See omnystudio.com/listener ...
Mark Rutte meets Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul
The Globalist - April 26, 2024 07:33 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsMonocle’s Hannah Lucinda Smith on Mark Rutte’s visit to Istanbul to meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he seeks to woo support to become the next Nato chief. Also in the programme: Ed Stocker sits down with Lufthansa CEO Jens Ritter as the airline prepares to launch its new premium cabins known as All...
Capsule
Monocle on Design - April 25, 2024 16:54 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 59 ratingsThe founder and deputy editor of the Milanese platform discuss what radical design means today, as well as the company’s approach to translating stories from the printed page into physical space. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ireland
The Global Countdown - April 25, 2024 11:55 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMonocle Radio’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco looks at the top songs in Ireland. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
China doubles its presence in the West Philippine Sea
The Briefing - April 25, 2024 11:50 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 80 ratingsPolish broadcaster TVP World will begin broadcasting in Russian, China doubles the presence of its military vessels in the Philippine exclusive economic zone, shares slump in Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and how the rise of artificial intelligence will have a lasting effect on how we work. P...
Blinken in China; Haiti’s ongoing crisis; the rise of Latin music
The Globalist - April 25, 2024 07:34 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 96 ratingsWe discuss the state of relations between the world’s two most powerful countries as US secretary of state Antony Blinken visits China. Plus: the current humanitarian situation in Gaza, the UN warns that the crisis in Haiti is “catastrophic” and Spanish-language music sweeps global charts. See...
US Congress approves $95bn (€110bn) aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Briefing - April 24, 2024 11:49 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe detail the US aid package approved by Congress last night, join celebrated novelist Monica Ali as she reveals the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist and discuss why shares in Gucci’s parent company, Kering, have plunged. Plus: we talk about Caravaggio’s last painting, “The Martyrdom of Saint...
Poland flexes its diplomatic muscles
The Globalist - April 24, 2024 07:09 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsAs Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, and the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, visit Warsaw, we examine the role that Poland plays in the diplomatic field. Then: Donald Trump’s criminal trial; Taiwan wants to remove statues of Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek; and an exploration of the f...
Food Neighbourhoods #381: Rosebank, Johannesburg
The Menu - April 23, 2024 17:53 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis week we head to Johannesburg in South Africa. Known for its work-hard-play-hard culture, it’s a city that brings together a vibrant mix of cultures. Elna Schütz heads to the leafy suburb of Rosebank to sample its innovative restaurants. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile, part 2
Monocle on Design - April 23, 2024 15:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 59 ratingsIn the second edition of our Milan Design Week special, Oki Sato and Sophie Lou Jacobsen join us at our pop-up studio. Plus: we discuss a new title that reproduces the final notebook of architect Louis Kahn and explore an astronomical-inspired work by Benedetta Tagliabue for lighting specialist ...
The UK green lights controversial immigration policy
The Briefing - April 23, 2024 11:49 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 80 ratingsUK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s bill to send illegal migrants to Rwanda has been approved in parliament – but could the courts still get in his way? Also in the programme: we have the business headlines, discuss the opening arguments of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York and explore...
Global military spending reaches an all-time high
The Globalist - April 23, 2024 07:28 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsPaul Rogers of OpenDemocracy explains why global defence expenditure is at its highest level since records began. Elsewhere, Monocle’s Istanbul correspondent, Hannah Lucinda Smith, tells us about Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Iraq, the Maldives shifts its allegiance from India to China and we ...
Star style: the art of crafting a look
Monocle on Culture - April 22, 2024 18:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRobert Bound visits Tate Britain’s ‘Sargent and Fashion’ exhibition to explore the painter’s role as a pioneer of the art of styling. We also speak to Suzi Ronson about her memoir, ‘Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars’, and how she crafted many of the singer’s ico...
Aid for Ukraine and drills in the South China Sea
The Briefing - April 22, 2024 11:56 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 80 ratingsAfter the US finally approves its latest foreign-aid package for Ukraine, we discuss how Russia might respond to a seizure of its assets to help the invaded country. Meanwhile, we look to the Philippines, where the US is launching a series of military drills in the South China Sea, and hear from...
Middle East tensions and the future of the US-Ukraine relationship
The Globalist - April 22, 2024 07:22 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 96 ratingsMonocle’s Middle East correspondent Leila Molana-Allen discusses the latest on tensions in the region. Also in the programme: Ukrainian MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze on the relationship between Washington and Kyiv following the US House of Representatives’ vote on military aid for Ukraine. Plus:...
Blended finance
The Bulletin with UBS - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsBlended finance is a strategy that’s gaining momentum and visibility. In the past decade, it has mobilised more than $200bn (€188bn) in capital toward sustainable development in developing countries. Dhun Davar, head of social finance at the UBS Optimus Foundation, joins us to explain how this h...
Live from London
Monocle on Sunday - April 21, 2024 09:18 - 1 hourEmma Nelson, Simon Brooke and Lynne O’Donnell on the weekend’s biggest talking points. We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Marbella, Monocle’s New Delhi correspondent, Lyndee Prickitt, for the latest on the India elections and Monocle’s Bangkok correspondent for the ne...
The Venice Biennale, Salone del Mobile and translated fiction
Monocle on Saturday - April 20, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutesIsabel Hilton, founder of China Dialogue, joins Georgina Godwin to talk about German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China, A24’s ‘Civil War’ (warning: spoilers ahead) and Anne Hidalgo’s vision of a greener Paris under threat. The co-founder of independent publisher Charco Press, Samuel McDowel...
Highlights from Monocle Radio
The Curator - April 19, 2024 23:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe world’s largest election begins in India. Then: Russia’s war in Ukraine and the latest on the strikes between Israel and Iran. Plus: reports from our teams at Salone del Mobile and the Venice Biennale. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Endo Kazutoshi, Camparino in Galleria and Georg Oelschlägel
The Menu - April 19, 2024 18:10 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis week we sit down with Japanese chef Endo Kazutoshi to discover why good sushi is all about mentality. Plus: we head to Camparino in Galleria in Milan just in time for ‘aperitivi’ and we meet Georg Oelschlägel, owner of Viennese bakery Felzl, to find out about his nose for entrepreneurship. ...
The US House considers Ukraine aid and a Salone del Mobile review
The Monocle Daily - April 19, 2024 18:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsOur in-house edition of ‘The Monocle Daily’ explores the US House of Representatives’ fight over military aid for Ukraine and the next steps to secure funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Plus: reviews of Salone del Mobile and the Venice Biennale from Monocle’s teams on the ground. See omnystu...
What We Learned: Friday 19 April
The Curator - April 19, 2024 16:14 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsA round-up of this week’s news stories, including an overview of Liz Truss’s literary work and the latest discovery from Fox News. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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