Culture editor Rob Bound plays host on this week's edition, standing in for editor in chief, Tyler Brûlé, who instead joins us on the line from his mountain retreat in St Moritz. Editor Andrew Tuck is also in the studio along with Simon Anholt, the godfather of nation branding, who tells us what it takes for a country to rank highly in the annual Anholt-GFK Roper Nation Brand Index, published last week. We also hear from transport and railway expert Christian Wolmar about his new book, Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World, and we get a preview to this week's Frieze Art Fair in London from Jane Morris, editor of The Art Newspaper.
The song played in this week's culture section is My Secret Lover by Private.
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