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Updated 15/08/2025
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04/12/2025

MIPIM Asia 2025: What are Asian cities learning from each other?

We report from MIPIM Asia in Hong Kong, where delegates from across the APAC region and beyond discussed solutions to meet the rapid pace of urbanisation. Plus: a city reeling from a devastating fire in Tai Po. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

04/12/2025

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31 min
10/12/2025

Benjamin Smith discusses efficiency and sustainability at Air France-KLM

Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, is joined by the CEO of Air France-KLM, Benjamin Smith, to discuss how he brought stability and modernisation to the company. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10/12/2025

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36 min
08/12/2025

Tall Stories 488: The bunker in Schönbornpark, Vienna

Alexei Korolyov visits an air-raid bunker that has laid empty for decades but is now being brought back to life through art. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

08/12/2025

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6 min
21/03/2025

What is Caribbean cuisine? Plus: Syria’s best shawarma and ‘An A-Z of Chinese Food’

We island-hop in the Caribbean with author Keshia Sakarah to learn all about her new book, ‘Caribe: A Caribbean Cookbook with History’, and the specificity of the region’s cuisine. Also in the programme: Hannah Lucinda Smith is in Damascus to taste some of the city’s renowned shawarma. Plus: Monocle’s Mae-Li Evans meets Jenny Lau to get ‘An A-Z of Chinese Food: (Recipes Not Included)’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

21/03/2025

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33 min
29/11/2024

Mangal II and ‘The World Atlas of Honey’

We sit down with Ferhat Dirik, the restaurateur behind London’s Mangal II, to learn what it takes to update a restaurant for a new generation. Also in the programme: we meet Marina Marchese to flick through her new book, ‘The World Atlas of Honey’, and pop open the lid on the sweet stuff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

29/11/2024

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30 min
24/09/2024

Food Neighbourhoods #403: Ibiza Town

On the Balearic isle of Ibiza the summer season is beginning to wind down. The legions of leisure seekers won’t officially dwindle until mid-October, when many of the island’s restaurants head off on their half-year hiatus. Moored in Ibiza Town, Monocle correspondent Liam Aldous has been tucking into the changing face of the port city’s food scene, which is seeing a growing number of restaurants turn into perennial offerings – a development that’s pleasing residents just as much as the tourists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24/09/2024

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11 min
15/12/2024

Lindsey Hilsum’s world in poems

As Channel 4’s international editor, Lindsey Hilsum has seen war in six continents across more than two decades. As a witness to the catastrophic effects of conflict, Lindsey would carry works of poetry with her to try and make sense of the world. She speaks to Georgina Godwin about her book, ‘I Brought the War with Me”, which collates her favourite poems alongside memories of her own work, whether speaking to child soldiers in Uganda, soldiers in Ukraine or giving testimonies of the Rwandan genocide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

15/12/2024

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29 min
18/08/2024

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is a Zimbabwe-born writer who spent her time writing instead of studying at university during one of the most turbulent times in the country’s history. She talks to Georgina Godwin about her childhood, the start of her writing career and her latest novel, “Digging Stars”, which probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family and nationhood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

18/08/2024

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22 min
30/06/2024

UK general election special with Alun Evans

The 2024 UK general election is just days away. Speaking to Georgina Godwin is an expert on many aspects of UK government and politics, in particular, the support systems to ministers and prime ministers. Alun Evans CBE, a civil servant for more than three decades, lifts the lid on what’s happening behind the door of 10 Downing Street during important transitions in politics through his new book, ‘The Intimacy of Power: An insight into private office, Whitehall’s most sensitive network’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

30/06/2024

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29 min
07/07/2024

Christopher Isherwood, ‘Inside Out’, with Katherine Bucknell

The twentieth-century author Christopher Isherwood, made famous by his 1930s work in Berlin, approached his writing about queerness, politics and religion with frankness and wit. The writer repeatedly fictionalised himself and his friends in his novels. Katherine Bucknell, the editor of four volumes of Isherwood’s diaries and letters, explains that it was his mother’s own diaries that first introduce us to the character of Isherwood. Using a wealth of unpublished material, Bucknell reveals the drama and complexity of the author’s inner world in an epic new biography. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

07/07/2024

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28 min

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