The Foreign Desk
Monocle
Presented by Andrew Mueller, Monocle’s flagship global-affairs show features expert guests and in-depth analysis of the big issues of the week. Nominated for ‘Best Current Affairs’ show and the ‘Spotlight Award’ in the 2022 British Podcast Awards.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Foreign Desk podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Our Own Worst Enemy
Tom Nichols
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Forged in War, A Military History of Russia from its Beginnings to the present
Mark Galeotti
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
When the World Was Soft: Yindjibarndi Creation Stories
Alex Mankiewicz
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Penalty Kick
The Penalty Kick
Robert McCrum
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How Tyrants Fall
and how nations survive
Marcel Dirsus
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What Iranians Want
Women, Life and Freedom
Arash Azizi
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Remember
Joy Harjo
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
Stephen Johnson
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rise of Duterte
Richard Javad Heydarian
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant
Ulysses Grant
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development
Sir Mark Lowcock
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Things I Don't Want to Know
Deborah Levy
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name
The Unending Conflict in the Congo
Jason Stearns
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The First Populist, The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson
David S. Brown
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Ledger, accounting for failure in Afghanistan
David Kilcullen
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Do Not Disturb
Michela Wrong
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tank, the ten war machines that change the world and the remarkable men behind them
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Mark Urban
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Changing My Mind
Julian Barnes
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Heartbeat of Iran
Tara Kangalu
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The prime minister
Anthony Trollope
