Monocle on Saturday

Charles Hecker and Georgina Godwin on Trump’s upcoming meeting with Putin in Alaska. Plus: specialist bookseller Max Moorhouse explains how he curates bespoke library collections for clients around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Isabel Hilton and Georgina Godwin on the week’s news. Plus: Paris-based food writer Chris Newens seeks out – and attempts to recreate – a dish that represents each of the French capital’s 20 arrondissements. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alex von Tunzelmann and Georgina Godwin discuss the week’s news, including Trump’s media trouble and new tooth-growing technology. Plus: Monocle’s Ryuma Takahashi speaks to two designers at Expo 2025 Osaka. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Georgina Godwin and Vincent McAviney on ‘The Late Show’ cancellation, Trump’s latest lawsuit and ‘The New York Times’ culture-critic revamp. Plus: Kate Parkin on launching a new independent publisher, Firefinch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Russia analyst Charles Hecker joins Georgina Godwin to discuss the week’s biggest stories. Plus: an exhibition exploring the history of radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Isabel Hilton joins to discuss the week’s major news and cultural shifts. Plus, we speak to Jenny Niven from the Edinburgh Book Festival and Francesca Beauman of Persephone Books.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from Paris: Georgina Godwin is joined by Peter Godwin, Michael Keating and Anthony Grayling to discuss why Paris tops the Monocle liveability index and what makes a great airport . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tessa Szyszkowitz joins Georgina Godwin to discuss the week’s news. Then: Daniel Kramb’s poetry goes from paper to bench at Estuary Festival 2025 and Wanja Kaufmann talks about London’s Swedish midsummer celebrations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied joins Georgina Godwin to discuss the latest news. Plus: The Wall Street Journal ’s CEO on how the media can work with AI companies and two bookshop owners on Independent Bookshop Week.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vincent McAviney joins Georgina Godwin to discuss Donald Trump’s spat with Elon Musk and the UK’s defence review. Plus: Kim Kremer and Rosalind Porter of Notting Hill Editions on the power of the essay. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Georgina Godwin is joined live by Philippe Sands, Fara Dabhoiwala and Abi Daré at the Hay Festival 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from Monocle’s Badi Market in Zürich with Visit Portugal, Juliet Linley joins Carlota Rebelo to go over the week’s top stories. Plus: voices from stallholders and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vincent McAviney and Carlota Rebelo on the week’s news and culture. Plus: Laura Kramer on Romania’s elections, Georgina Godwin at the Auckland Writers Festival and Fernando Augusto Pacheco on all things Eurovision. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener f...

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 porcela...

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 Esk...

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 Georg...

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,...

Historian and writer Alex von Tunzelmann joins Georgina Godwin to discuss why the latest averted US government shutdown could signal a sea change for US politics and more of the week’s news and culture. Plus, Monocle’s Balkans correspondent, Guy De Launey, joins from a protest in Belgrade and we hear from Eugene Serebrennikov and Vicente Garcia Morillo, co-founders of the New York-base...

EU and far-right politics expert Marta Lorimer joins Emma Nelson to discuss how the bloc can respond to Donald Trump’s new foreign policy. Plus: Monocle’s Robert Bound speaks to the co-founders of the Kyiv and Miami-based Voloshyn Gallery at Spanish art fair Arco Madrid. Finally, Georgina Godwin heads to Adelaide Writers’ Week for the final leg of her literary travels.  See...

How did yesterday’s talks between Zelensky and Trump go so wrong? International journalist Nina dos Santos joins Emma Nelson to unpack the disastrous meeting, plus more of the week’s news and culture. Then: Georgina Godwin continues her literary tour of Asia and film critic Karen Krizanovich speaks to Fernando Augusto Pacheco ahead of tomorrow’s Academy Awards. See omnystudio.com...

Ahead of Germany’s federal election on Sunday, we hear from a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, Sudha David-Wilp, at the Munich Security Conference. Plus, communications consultant Simon Brooke joins Emma Nelson for a look at the week’s news and culture stories while Georgina Godwin continues her literary tour of Asia, including a stop at the Ubud Writers & R...