Episodes

  • Monocle’s spring market with Visit Portugal and the Good Company bookshop
    May 10 2025

    Celina Tavares, UK director for Visit Portugal, joins Georgina Godwin to discuss Monocle’s spring market. Plus: Lisbon’s Good Company bookshop and Charles Hecker on the week’s news.

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    32 mins
  • Global election roundup and The Folio Society
    May 3 2025

    Latika Bourke and Nina dos Santos join Georgina Godwin to discuss elections in Australia, England and Portugal. Plus: The Folio Society’s CEO, Joanna Reynolds, on its new summer collection.

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    30 mins
  • The Pope’s funeral begins
    Apr 26 2025

    Former Vatican correspondent Juliet Linley joins from Rome as the funeral of Pope Francis begins. Plus: Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Georgina Godwin look back at the week’s news and culture.

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    31 mins
  • Life on the UK’s nuclear submarines and the strategic genius of Taylor Swift
    Apr 19 2025

    Journalist Vincent McAviney joins Georgina Godwin to discuss Washington’s threat to abandon Ukraine, life on the UK’s nuclear submarines and robots running in a Beijing half-marathon. Plus: Monocle’s Monica Lillis speaks to Kevin Evers, senior editor at ‘Harvard Business Review’, about his new book on the strategic genius of Taylor Swift.

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    31 mins
  • China’s tariffs and design in Milan
    Apr 12 2025

    Isabel Hilton, founder of China Dialogue, joins to discuss tariffs and all the news from Beijing. We also consider how Chinese people are using Tiktok to make light of the news, Germany’s coalition takes form and which books have been banned from the US Naval Academy’s library? Plus: Monocle’s Rory Jones speaks to UK designer Lee Broom about his collaboration with Spanish porcelain ceramicists Lladró at Salone del Mobile in Milan.

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    32 mins
  • Trump’s tariffs, Watches and Wonders and ‘Donna Summer Reimagined’
    Apr 5 2025

    As Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs caused chaos this week, geopolitical risk analyst and author Charles Hecker joins Georgina Godwin to unpack the US president’s push to roll back globalisation. Plus: Monocle’s luxury markets editor, Brenda Tuohy, speaks to the creative director and founder of MB&F at Watches and Wonders in Geneva. Finally, Zimbabwe-born singer-songwriter Eska joins us in the studio to discuss her music and the event she co-curated, ‘Love to Love You Baby: Donna Summer Reimagined’.

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    33 mins
  • #TeslaTakedown, Flying Books at Neverland and Voices of Faith
    Mar 29 2025

    UK correspondent for Austrian magazine ‘Falter’, Tessa Szyszkowitz, joins Georgina Godwin following her trip to Silicon Valley to discuss today’s #TeslaTakedown protests and the local backlash to Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding. Plus: Monocle’s Toronto correspondent, Tomos Lewis, explores independent bookshop Flying Books at Neverland. Then: Sanjoy K Roy and Anand George discuss food and music at the inaugural Voices of Faith festival.

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    34 mins
  • Hay Festival 2025 and Monocle’s Hanami Market
    Mar 22 2025

    Daniella Peled, managing editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, joins Georgina Godwin to discuss the week’s news and culture, including protests in Turkey, Israel embracing Europe’s far-right and drones on Mount Everest. Plus: Hay Festival CEO, Julie Finch, joins the programme to discuss the 2025 spring lineup. Then: journalist and friend of Monocle Radio, Juliet Linley, joins from Zürich, where Monocle’s Hanami Market kicks off, selling authentic Japanese goods and treats.

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    30 mins