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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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Wednesday 5 July:

Panellists Stephen Dalziel and Rebecca Tinsley discuss plans to replace Wagner in Ukraine for Russia, next year’s planned elections in South Sudan and whether the Netherlands is right to ban mobile phones in schools. Plus, Andrew Mueller heads for a guitar lesson at London’s Flamenco Festival 2023.

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25025 Jul 2023
43 min

Wednesday 5 July: 

Panellists Stephen Dalziel and Rebecca Tinsley discuss plans to replace Wagner in Ukraine for Russia, next year’s planned elections in South Sudan and whether the Netherlands is right to ban mobile phones in schools. Plus, Andrew Mueller heads for a guitar lesson at London’s Flamenco Festival 2023.

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25014 Jul 2023
41 min

Tuesday 4 July: 

Monocle’s Andrew Mueller is joined by journalists Simon Brooke and Lynne O’Donnell to discuss divisions in France, how water is threatening peace in Afghanistan and the latest Nato developments. We also hear from Monocle’s Mary Fitzgerald and Atlantic Council senior fellow, Emadeddin Badi, about their new book on Libya. Plus: why bad reviews are the most fun to read.

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25003 Jul 2023
39 min

Monday 3 July: 

The latest on the violence in the West Bank with Julie Norman, associate professor in politics and international relations at University College London. In the studio, Terry Stiastny and Ian Bond discuss the EU’s approach to Russian assets, why France and Germany have fallen out of love and how ‘Barbie’ has become an unlikely agitator in Vietnam. Plus: a tribute to Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina and New Zealand’s Martin Phillipps serenades Monocle’s Andrew Mueller. 

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249930 Jun 2023
36 min

Friday 30 June: 

Resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Elisabeth Braw, discusses how Sweden has sparked outrage in Muslim countries by allowing a Qur’an to be burnt. In the studio, Monocle’s Helmi Pillai and Markus Hippi react to the resignation of a Finnish minister and Korea’s new K-pop school. Plus: Emma Searle on her love for ‘Lord of the Rings’.

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249829 Jun 2023
44 min

Thursday 29 June: 

The US Supreme Court hands down a ruling with significant implications for affirmative action. In the studio, James Rodgers and Yassmin Abdel-Magied discuss the continuing fallout from Wagner’s failed mutiny, a failed Eid ceasefire in Sudan and why millennials are bucking political trends. Plus: Three months behind bars for American journalist Evan Gershkovich.

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249728 Jun 2023
37 min

Wednesday 28 June: 

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted march on Moscow, we ask what’s next for the Wagner mercenary group’s operations in Africa and the Middle East. With Sean Ryan and Barbara Serra. Plus: Stockholm risks tensions with Ankara and Italian authorities search for a Colosseum vandal.

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249627 Jun 2023
39 min

Tuesday 27 June: 

Toronto elects Olivia Chow as its new mayor. Plus: China’s premier critiques “the politicisation of economic issues” by the West at an economic forum in Tianjin and journalists at France’s main Sunday newspaper go on strike over their new editor. With Lisette Reymer and Jonathan Fenby.

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249526 Jun 2023
41 min

Monday 26 June: 

Former Ukrainian MP Aliona Hlivco and journalist Caroline Frost discuss the effect of the Wagner group’s semi-mutiny on the Kremlin, Italy’s attempts to appoint more Italian museum directors and the Chinese young people looking to God for guidance in moments of hardship. Plus: Monocle’s Andrew Mueller sits down with rapper Chuck D and former GCHQ director David Omand. 

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249423 Jun 2023
37 min

Friday 23 June: 

Guy De Launey discusses the failure of the EU-mediated crisis talks between the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo, and Markus Hippi and Isabella Jewell examine Ireland’s plan to pay up to €84,000 to those who are willing to relocate to a remote island. Plus: the Dutch students slamming plans to slash English courses and Monocle’s Tom Webb on his guilty pleasure: the rock band Genesis.

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249322 Jun 2023
44 min

Thursday 22 June: 

Nina dos Santos and Nik Gowing on The Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris, India and China strengthen ties with defence, the Spanish government allocates €160m to promote audio in Spain and the latest on trade agreements. Plus: Rome sends Russell Crowe into battle with Riyadh for the right to host the 2030 World Expo.

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249221 Jun 2023
35 min

Wednesday 21 June: 

Rebecca Tinsley and Charles Hecker on Joe Biden’s threat to the US-China detente by calling Xi Jinping a ‘dictator’, the end of a three-day ceasefire in Sudan’s capital and why a UN expert urges a different approach to resolve the crisis in Myanmar. Plus: why British five-year-olds are up to 7cm shorter than their Western peers.

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249120 Jun 2023
41 min

Tuesday 20 June: 

Alex von Tunzelmann and Robin Lustig look at the day’s top stories, including the first state visit to the US by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, companies hiring refugees in Europe and why an invitation to see the mayor of Tehran led to the resignation of a Brussels minister. Plus: Josh Rudolph of the German Marshall Fund on rebuilding Ukraine and part two of our Quality of Life series.

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249019 Jun 2023
47 min

Monday 19 June: 

US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s China trip is off to a good start. Panellists Julie Norman and Owen Matthews discuss this, the new trial of Alexei Navalny and France’s air-defence plan. Plus: we begin a series looking at our annual Quality of Life survey.

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248916 Jun 2023
38 min

Friday 16 June: 

Olga Rudenko, editor of The Kyiv Independent, on running stories critical of the Ukrainian military in wartime and her paper’s new war crimes investigations team. Plus: a political row in New Zealand over bilingual road signs and what would be on your country’s citizenship test?

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248815 Jun 2023
41 min

Thursday 15 June: 

Iranian activist Masih Alinejad tells Monocle Radio that the West is failing to act over the treatment of women in Iran. Plus: former British prime minister Boris Johnson lied to parliament according to a report by MPs – Carole Walker and Steve Cannane discuss his political future. Also in the show: the latest on Ukraine’s counteroffensive and should children learn the national anthem in school?

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