Weekly film, music, and arts criticism from Monocle 24's Midori House studio in London.
The Review moves through the week’s culture with a magazine sensibility: exhibitions, festivals, records, films, books, and television all share the table. Its tone is informed and lightly wry, with contributors adding texture from London, Nashville, San Sebastian, Taipei, Milan, and beyond.
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The Review runs as a panel-and-dispatch format: a London studio host duo discusses new releases with critics, while correspondents based abroad file reports on festivals, galleries, and city culture. Andrew Muller and Gillian Tobias have hosted editions from Monocle's Midori House studio in London. Recurring contributor Alex Godfrey provides film criticism, reviewing titles such as Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine and the Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth. Crispin Parry, founder of the music promotion company British Underground, files reports on scenes like the Americana Music Association festival in Nashville, introducing acts to UK listeners. Other editions have featured author and journalist Mark Mason discussing books tied to historical anniversaries, and music-industry guests such as a UK project manager for a national music export body. A standing segment gathers international culture picks and weekend guides from Monocle bureaux cities, with Tokyo, Hong Kong, Milan, and Montreal all having featured for photography fairs, gallery openings, and film festivals. The show also references Monocle 24's Midori House live-session tradition, where touring musicians record around visits to London. Episodes run roughly 50 minutes and combine spoken panel debate with pre-recorded field segments rather than a single extended interview. The tone is discursive and openly opinionated, with hosts and critics disagreeing on verdicts rather than converging on consensus. Listeners drawn to the show tend to follow international arts and music criticism alongside travel-style cultural recommendations.
Made for: Listeners interested in international film, music, and arts criticism paired with travel-style culture picks from cities like Tokyo, Milan, and Nashville.
What sets it apart: Pairs London studio panel debate on film, books, and music with field dispatches filed by Monocle's international bureaux correspondents.
Monocle’s one-hour Saturday show looking at the best in music, media and the arts. Monocle 24 is Monocle’s round-the-clock radio station that launched in October 2011 and is broadcast from our headquarters at Midori House in Marylebone. You can listen live via our player at monocle.com, as well as downloading shows from our site, iTunes or SoundCloud; we also have a handy app. The station delivers news and comment, plus magazine shows covering a range of topics including food and drink, urbanism, design, culture, business and print media. Our newsgathering operation includes bureaux in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Zürich, New Y...
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