The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the ‘Hafla’ exhibition at Sotheby’s
Natasha Tripney reports from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and selects the top theatre picks at the monthlong event. Plus, Robert Bound heads to ‘Hafla’, a celebration of Middle Eastern culture at the...
19 Aug 202427min
Review: ‘Tuesday’
Film critics Caspar Salmon and Leila Latif join Robert Bound in the studio to review A24’s latest film, ‘Tuesday’, directed by Daina O Pusić. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as a mother whose daughter, play...
12 Aug 202424min
Summer films: ‘Agent of Happiness’, ‘Daughters’ and ‘Kneecap’
In our summer film special, we find out about three great big-screen releases. We hear about a happiness agent in the Bhutanese Himalayas in ‘Agent of Happiness’, explore the moving new Netflix film ‘...
5 Aug 202430min
Summer reading: John Niven’s ‘O Brother’ and Mariel Franklin’s ‘Bonding’
In our summer books special, we sit down with two brilliant writers. First we hear from Scottish author and screenwriter John Niven, whose moving 2023 memoir ‘O Brother’ is now out in paperback. Then ...
29 Juli 202428min
Summer art special: Lonnie Holley, Ukrainian modernism and Les Rencontres d’Arles
We highlight three events that should be on your radar, starting with a trip to London’s Royal Academy of Arts to explore Ukrainian modernism. Then we head to the south of France for this year’s editi...
22 Juli 202425min
Leading the charge: a journey down the French Riviera in the Cadillac Lyriq, part three
Alongside General Motors, partner of ‘Monocle on Culture’, we share the third and final part in our series of special programmes. In this episode, we finish our Côte d’Azur road trip in Cannes and exp...
19 Juli 202430min
Summer music: Cassandra Jenkins and a new documentary about Blur
New York-based artist and musician Cassandra Jenkins discusses her new album, ‘My Light, My Destroyer’. The spellbinding new record is a tangle of cranked guitars, close-mic confessionals and wonderfu...
15 Juli 202429min
Leading the charge: a journey down the French Riviera in the Cadillac Lyriq, part two
Alongside General Motors, partner of ‘Monocle on Culture’, we share the second in our three-part series of special programmes. In this episode, we continue our journey down the Côte d’Azur, with time ...
12 Juli 202423min
