100 episodes
The Monocle Daily Monocle Radio
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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Hear our take on the news and enjoy sharp reporting on the big stories every weekday. Tune in as our guest panel reviews the day’s events in Europe, follows developing stories in the Americas and welcomes early risers in Asia and Australasia. Plus: reports and analysis from Monocle’s correspondents and bureaux around the world. Nominated for ‘Best Daily Podcast’ in the 2022 British Podcast Awards.
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Lviv Media Forum, Brazil’s floods and NYCxDesign
We hear from Olga Tokariuk at the Lviv Media Forum, Fernando Augusto Pacheco on Brazil’s devastating floods, US editor Christopher Lord on NYCxDesign and Gunnar Gronlid on Norway’s curious coming-of-age tradition known as “russ”.
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Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law: the tools of autocracies?
Our guests Julie Norman and Chris Sabatini discuss China and Russia’s throwdown to the US, the spread of “foreign agent” laws in autocracies around the world, the looming Trump-Biden presidential debate and South Korea’s K-pop “plogging” campaign. Plus: a letter on Danish happiness from Copenhagen.
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Slovakia’s prime minister attacked and Putin in Beijing
We get the latest from the assassination attempt on Slovakia’s Robert Fico. Then: our panellists, Isabel Hilton and Sean Ryan, discuss Vladimir Putin in Beijing, whether Arab nations could be peacekeepers in Gaza and why we hate being on-call with UK tax authorities. Plus: The Chandler Good Government Index.
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Biden ramps up tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars
Why Joe Biden announced a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles, Michael Cohen confirms that Donald Trump asked him to keep stories about his personal life out of the media and Copenhagen Democracy Summit begins at a time when faith in governments is declining worldwide. Plus: the passenger rail service linking Russia to North Korea is set to resume and we visit the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
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Ukraine on the back foot as Russia claims more villages
Vladimir Putin removes Sergei Shoigu from Russia’s defence ministry, Ukraine’s north east sees hard fighting in a new ground offensive, a court in Germany backs the nation’s domestic intelligence agency’s designation of far-right party Alternative for Germany as a suspected case of extremism, and why lost property reports in Japan hit new record in 2023. Plus: Laurie Bristow on his new book, ‘Kabul: Final Call: The Inside Story of the Withdrawal from Afghanistan’.
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Taiwan’s new tourism campaign and the Eurovision Song Contest
The UN General Assembly is set to back a Palestinian bid for membership. Then: Donald Trump’s campaign wants to lure international visitors, Taiwan launches a new tourism slogan and we report from Malmö and the Eurovision Song Contest. Plus: the Monocle x Gucci collaboration begins.
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