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 York and Toronto, as well as dedicated correspondents in over 30 cities from São Paulo to Sydney.


Producer, Composer, Bandleader and DJ, Blend Mishkin is a versatile artist, who has mixed and move across reggae, dub, soul, funk as well as world music and in 2023 completed 30 years of discography. His works have been released on seminal record labels, such as Manos Hadjidaki's Sirius, London's Nice Up! Recods, LTJ Bukem’s Cooking Records (UK) and New York based Shadow Records.
His music have received exceptional reviews from the press and music radio shows, notably those of David Rodigan (BBC1Xtra), Toddla T (BBC Radio One), Seanie B (BBC1Xtra), Keith Lawrence ( Mi-Soul), Craig Charles (BBC 6 Music) and the late Andrew Weatheral (NTS). While garnering international recognition, Blend Mishkin benefits from a consistently busy live schedule throughout Greece and Europe with performances in clubs and the festival circuit including Boomtown Fair(UK), Rototom (SP), Uprising Festival (Slovakia), Overjam Reggae Festival (Slovenia), Exit Festival (Serbia), Ozora (Hungary), Gampel Open Air (Switzerland), One Love Festival (UK), Neversea (Romania) and more.

http://blendmishkin.net/ 
Contact: blendmishkin@gmail.com
Booking info: blendmishkin.bookings@gmail.com

Frank Skinner gives you a verbal caffeine kick into the weekend with observations from the newspapers, as well as weekly tales from his own life. Catch Frank with regulars Emily Dean and Alun Cochrane on Saturday mornings from 8am.

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