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Monocle on Saturday

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Jul 22, 2023 • 30min

Monocle on Saturday: 22 July 2023

A look at the week’s news and culture with Georgina Godwin. Plus, we are joined by historian and screenwriter Alex von Tunzelmann to flick through the morning’s papers and Gregg Scruggs reviews the work of Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda in Whistler, British Columbia.
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Jul 15, 2023 • 33min

Monocle on Saturday: 15 July 2023

A look at the week’s news and culture with Georgina Godwin. Plus: we are joined by journalist and author Charlotte Henry to flick through the morning’s papers and Monica Lillis explores the history of book bans and educational censorship.
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Jul 8, 2023 • 35min

Monocle on Saturday: 8 July 2023

A look at the week’s news and culture with Georgina Godwin. Plus: a review of the morning’s papers with Latika Bourke.
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Jul 1, 2023 • 29min

Monocle on Saturday: 1 July 2023

A look at the week’s news and culture with Georgina Godwin. Plus: a review of the morning’s papers with artist and journalist Siân Pattenden and a deep dive into the world of divas with Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco and Robert Bound.
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Jun 24, 2023 • 31min

Monocle on Saturday: 24 June 2023

The week’s news and culture with Georgina Godwin. Monocle’s contributing editor Andrew Mueller reviews the morning’s newspapers and we discuss what’s next for Nato. Plus: a look ahead at the next episode of ‘The Foreign Desk’ and the Ukrainian women making craft, not war.
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Jun 17, 2023 • 34min

Monocle on Saturday: 17 June 2023

The week’s news and culture with Georgina Godwin. Journalist Simon Brooke reviews the newspapers and we speak to South Korean human rights activist Pastor Kim Sungeun, who has helped more than 1,000 North Koreans to defect since 2000. Plus: why does avocado and honey work? Emma Nelson dives into the world of flavour pairing.
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Jun 10, 2023 • 36min

Monocle on Saturday: 10 June 2023

Updates on the weekend’s culture news and current affairs with Georgina Godwin. Historian, broadcaster and screenwriter Alex von Tunzelmann reviews the papers and Monocle’s Monica Lillis visits Poland’s award-winning pavilion at the London Design Biennale.
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Jun 3, 2023 • 34min

Monocle on Saturday: 3 June 2023

Updates on the weekend’s culture news and current affairs with Emma Nelson. British classical-music radio and television broadcaster Petroc Trelawny reviews the papers, French journalist Agnès Poirier discusses France’s debt and Monocle’s Monica Lillis speaks with author Beth Lewis about cults.
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May 27, 2023 • 34min

Monocle on Saturday: 27 May 2023

The weekend’s biggest discussion topics with Emma Nelson. CNN’s Europe editor Nina Dos Santos reviews the papers, Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent Petri Burtsoff defends Finnish summers, and an interview with Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, whose exhibition, “Maresias”, opens at the Turner Contemporary in Margate today.
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May 20, 2023 • 41min

Monocle on Saturday: 20 May 2023

The weekend’s biggest discussion topics with Georgina Godwin. Cultural historian Gavin Plumley reviews the papers, Monocle’s deputy head of radio, Tom Webb, brings us a taste of Portofino and we chat to the international director of the Hay Festival, Cristina Fuentes La Roche.

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