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Safely back in London, the team talk to Haig Simonian, Switzerland and Austria correspondent for the Financial Times, about today's referendum on banning the construction of minarets in the country. Later, Catherine Ilic, Radio Suisse Romande's London correspondent, joins the panel to give her views on the subject. We then jump across the Atlantic and discuss the serious dangers facing journalists based in Mexico with Ioan Grillo, Mexico correspondent for Time magazine, before returning to London to catch up with one of our favourite new retailers, Alexia Hentsch.

The music played on this weeks show was Sister by Emily L’oizeau from her album Pays Sauvage (Polydor) and Is It True by Yohanna (The Sound Factory)

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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 horizon and explore the looming stories within the five areas that define our editorial agenda: global affairs, business, culture, design and consumer culture.

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