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The Pacific Shift brings you music from around the Pacific Rim, Asia and beyond. J-pop, K-pop, T-pop and more, Monocle is the soundtrack to your day by the Pacific.
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The Entrepreneurs 30 min listen
Illustration: the state of the art
Section D 30 min listen
What is the magic of Hay Festival?
Culture with Robert Bound 30 min listen
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Sets the agenda in Asia and considers what’s been dominating the day in Europe and North America. The programme is sometimes co-hosted out of our Toronto and New York bureaux and features regular interviews with special guests both there and across the Americas, as well as experts and analysts at our studios in London.
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Monocle’s foreign editor Steve Bloomfield on what we can expect from former FBI director James Comey when he appears before the US Senate.
The Briefing 6 min listen
Paul Rogers explains what will happen to Islamic State’s stronghold.
The Monocle Daily 9 min listen
As Tel Aviv prepares to celebrate Pride, Israel strikes an agreement with Russia to ban LGBT couples from adopting.
Midori House 5 min listen
Monocle’s Chris Lord explains why Germany is planning to move its aircraft and military personnel out of Turkey’s Incirlik air base.
The Briefing 5 min listen
The Cinema Show 7 min listen
The Menu 10 min listen
The Urbanist 8 min listen
The Globalist 58 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 10 min listen
Section D 4 min listen
The Foreign Desk 4 min listen
The Menu 11 min listen
Julia Hobsbawm, the world’s first professor of networking as well as a highly respected author, speaks about her new book ‘Fully Connected’, which is all about surviving and thriving in an age of overload.
Meet the Writers 78 26 min listen
Sarah Cracknell, lead singer of Saint Etienne, drops by to perform from the band’s new album ‘Home Counties’ and talks leaving – and returning to – suburbia with Andrew Mueller.
The Sessions at Midori House 118 17 min listen
From Nicole Kidman to Netflix, the Palme d’Or to the Palm Dog, Tom Edwards discusses the big stories from year’s Cannes Film Festival with critics Tim Robey and Anna Smith.
The Monocle Arts Review 524 28 min listen
What makes a city’s musical identity? We find out about Rio de Janeiro’s newest musical style and hear how Toronto is trying to keep its music venues alive.
The Urbanist 294 30 min listen
Monocle’s Asia editor at large, Kenji Hall, looks at the upcoming election in Mongolia.
A tour of the El Arenal district of the Andalusian capital, which is famous for its cuisine.
In July 1946, a French automobile engineer turned fashion designer named Louis Réard invented a revealing two-piece swimsuit called the bikini. Réard created a company and made bikinis for decades until his death in the mid-1980s, when the brand went dormant. This week on Eureka we meet Richard Emanuel, the Scottish entrepreneur on a mission to revive Réard to its former glory.
The Entrepreneurs 7 min listen
The population in this small town in the north of Spain’s Catalonian region had become segregated by its own steep topography. The solution? Enlisting a skilled architect to design a camouflaged lift attached to the cliffside.
The Urbanist 292 6 min listen
Saint Etienne
The Sessions at Midori House 17 min listen
Lowly
The Sessions at Midori House 16 min listen
On Design 42: How did the Fender Telecaster hit all the right notes?
Section D 5 min listen
Behind the scenes at Monocle: issue 104
Interesting titles
The Stack 30 min listen
American newsprint
The Stack 29 min listen
Electioneering
The Monocle Daily 26 min listen
En marche?
The Bulletin with UBS 15 min listen
Labour’s manifesto leak
Midori House 9 min listen
Thursday 1 June
The Briefing 30 min listen
The deal-maker in Israel
The Briefing 8 min listen
Trump on tour
The Globalist 16 min listen
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