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- A Word in Your Ear – A Time of Death, the Death of Time
23 September 2023
Renowned Mozambique author Mia Couto still works as a biologist – an apt side career for someone who dissects complex subjects with precise curiosity. For the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Couto coaxed Brazilian…
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- A Word in Your Ear – Ordinary Light
23 September 2023
A Word in Your Ear, Monocle Radio’s special season of Meet the Writers, concludes with a reading from Tracy K Smith’s dazzling memoir, Ordinary Light. The American writer began her time as a Rolex protégée in 2010 under the…
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- A Word in Your Ear – Round Numbers
23 September 2023
Colombian writer Antonio García Ángel was just 33 years old when the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative paired him with the great Peruvian novelist – and later Nobel literature laureate – Mario Vargas Llosa. A dozen…
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- A Word in Your Ear – The Half-Blood
23 September 2023
Texas-based Bulgarian writer Miroslav Penkov wasn’t sure if anyone would pay attention to his first English-language novel, Stork Mountain. However, when the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative paired him with The…
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- A Word in Your Ear – The Ways
23 September 2023
Thanks to the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Colin Barrett was able to write his debut novel under the mentorship of one of Ireland’s most beloved novelists, Colm Tóibín. Monocle Radio’s Meet the Writers special…
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- A Word in Your Ear – The Liars\' Gospel
23 September 2023
Monocle Radio’s Meet the Writers special season, A Word in Your Ear, begins with an excerpt from Naomi Alderman’s third novel, ‘The Liars’ Gospel’, a bold retelling of biblical narratives around the life of Jesus. She was…
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- A Word in Your Ear – Disquiet
23 September 2023
Winner of Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, the late Toni Morrison was one of the all-time great American novelists. For the inaugural Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, she was paired with Australian writer Julia Leigh,…
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- A Word in Your Ear – Noces de Coton
23 September 2023
“Literature needs flaws,” says Tahar Ben Jelloun. The accomplished Moroccan author had some tough love for his protégé on the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Edem Awumey. Listen to the acclaimed actor Paterson…
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The Briefing - Friday 25 August
25 August 2023
Emma Nelson is live from Dufourstrasse 90 with the latest on Kosovo, as Brussels and Washington accuse authorities in Pristina of unnecessarily stoking tensions in majority-Serb areas. Plus: Tyler Brûlé is in the studio…