Episodes

  • Highlights from Monocle Radio: A year on from the toppling of Bashar al-Assad, the new editor in chief of ‘Esquire UK’ and a recap of Design Miami

    Highlights from Monocle Radio: A year on from the toppling of Bashar al-Assad, the new editor in chief of ‘Esquire UK’ and a recap of Design Miami
    Dec 14 2025

    Journalist Martin Smith discusses his interview with the president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, we meet the new editor in chief of ‘Esquire UK’ and Design Miami’s CEO, Jen Roberts, recaps this year’s fair.

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    50 mins
  • What We Learned: The Fifa Peace Prize and Nicolas Sarkozy’s new book

    What We Learned: The Fifa Peace Prize and Nicolas Sarkozy’s new book
    Dec 13 2025

    This week, Andrew Mueller recounts what we learned from Trump’s Fifa Peace Prize win and Nicolas Sarkozy’s prison diaries.

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    7 mins
  • Highlights from Monocle Radio: War photographer Lynsey Addario, wrapping up Design Miami and the National Gallery’s new restaurant

    Highlights from Monocle Radio: War photographer Lynsey Addario, wrapping up Design Miami and the National Gallery’s new restaurant
    Dec 7 2025

    Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario on the personal toll of conflict. Plus: Kate Hawley, costume designer of the much-celebrated film Frankenstein, discusses her first Fashion Award.

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    51 mins
  • What We Learned: Sabrina Carpenter vs the US government, Franklin the Turtle and a live-action pancake

    What We Learned: Sabrina Carpenter vs the US government, Franklin the Turtle and a live-action pancake
    Dec 5 2025

    Andrew Mueller discusses the week’s weirdest news, including singer Sabrina Carpenter and Franklin the Turtle’s spats with the Trump administration, and French far-right leader Jordan Bardella is pelted with eggs.



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    6 mins
  • The Curator 30/11/25

    The Curator 30/11/25
    Nov 30 2025

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    49 mins
  • President Macron’s assassination plot, US senator Mark Kelly under fire and ‘Adolf Hitler’ wins yet another election

    President Macron’s assassination plot, US senator Mark Kelly under fire and ‘Adolf Hitler’ wins yet another election
    Nov 28 2025

    Andrew Mueller unpacks the week’s strangest stories, including a spat between US politicians, Candace Owens’ accusation against French president Macron and Adolf Hitler (not that one) wins another election in Namibia.

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    8 mins
  • Highlights from Monocle Radio: Financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Dubai Design Week and the new boss at the helm of Mr & Mrs Smith

    Highlights from Monocle Radio: Financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, Dubai Design Week and the new boss at the helm of Mr & Mrs Smith
    Nov 23 2025

    We hear from financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin on the next financial bubble, get the latest from Dubai Design Week and meet the new boss at the helm of Mr & Mrs Smith.



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    50 mins
  • What We Learned: JD Vance in prison, Maduro karaoke and a wild world record

    What We Learned: JD Vance in prison, Maduro karaoke and a wild world record
    Nov 21 2025

    Andrew Mueller recaps the week’s oddest stories. This week, Michigan man JD Vance (not that one) goes to prison, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro sings and a bizarre world record is broken.

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    7 mins