Monocle Radio: Monocle Weekends

Georgina Godwin is joined by Ben Rylan to discuss the extraordinary new film ‘1917’ by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes. Plus: Monocle’s favourite retailers arrive for our annual Christmas market in London.

Join our editor in chief Tyler Brûlé in this special festive programme from Monocle’s Christmas market in Zürich. Discover how the Swiss do Christmas with food and wine entrepreneur Katja Weber, browse the European newspapers with Jessica Bridger and unpack the week with Georgina Godwin.

Conservation biologist Thor Hansen discusses the vital role bees play in nature. Plus: the campaign to save the modernist architecture of Argentina’s Ariston Club and Ben Rylan examines how corporate changes have reshaped the films we watch.

Georgina Godwin shakes off the winter chill at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates as she takes a tour of the Louvre Abu Dhabi and meets the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation.

On Monocle’s new weekend programme, Georgina Godwin discusses the value of a good bookshop with Bill Samuel, grandson of the founder of Foyles. Plus: Petri Burtsov tours Muji’s new Helsinki outpost, Bill Leuty takes a winter dip in Zürich and Ben Rylan meets film-maker Kelly Reichardt as her breakout success ‘Old Joy’ enters the Criterion Collection.