The Monocle Weekly

The Monocle Weekly

This week on edition 117 of The Monocle Weekly, we welcome back Peter Morris, chief economist at Ascend Worldwide, who joins us in the studio to analyse airports and to ask why Spain is selling off Barajas and El Prat, while Beijing is laying groundwork for the world's biggest. Our design editor Hugo Macdonald takes on the 9th annual London Design Festival, giving us a preview on how it measures up to design festivals around the world. Next we catch up with Monocle's Santiago Rodríguez Tarditi at the 64th International Motor Show in Frankfurt, and with Aarti Betigeri in Delhi to give us the word on the street there. With culture editor Rob Bound out of the office, it's up to Tyler Brûlé to choose the tune of the week; this time it's the Ricky-Tick Big Band's "Easily Flammable" (Ricky-Tick Records). Finally, Andrew Tuck ruminates on why foreign diplomats shouldn't be afraid to learn languages.

 

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Credits

Producer: David Michon
Sound Engineer: Chris Sharp
Editor: Jack Phillips
Photographer: Andrew Urwin

Tyler Brule
Tyler Brûlé

Editor in chief

Andrew Tuck
Andrew Tuck

Editor

Steve Bloomfield
Steve Bloomfield

Foreign editor

Peter Morris
Peter Morris

Chief economist as Ascend Worldwide

Hosted by editor in chief Tyler Brûlé, The Monocle Weekly is a mix of smart discussion, previews, field reports and feature interviews. From our studio in London and our bureaux in Tokyo and New York, Monocle's editors focus on the stories shaping the week ahead.

Culture editor Robert Bound is a regular with his weekly playlist of artists established and obscure and editor Andrew Tuck is at hand to moderate debates and pull in contributions from our correspondents in far flung corners of the world.