The legendary Tom Jones joins Robert Bound to discuss the confessional nature of his new record, ‘Surrounded By Time’, and how he took on other people’s songs.

Monocle on Culture - Tom Jones

The writer Andrew O’Hagan pops into Midori House to chat to Robert Bound about his novel ‘Mayflies’, which is loosely based on his own teenage years and has just been published in paperback. They discuss the politics and music of the 1980s, and the romance of male friendships.

Monocle on Culture - Andrew O’Hagan

Robert Bound is joined by the film critics Anna Smith and Tim Robey to review Ben Wheatley’s latest movie, the pandemic-set folk-horror ‘In The Earth’, and discuss the things it reminded them of.

Monocle on Culture - In The Earth

Chaitanya Tamhane is a filmmaker whose titles include ‘Court’ and most recently ‘The Disciple’, which has just been released by Netflix. Alfonso Cuarón is an Oscar-winning Mexican film director best known for ‘Roma’ and ‘Gravity’. After meeting through a mentoring scheme that resulted in Tamhane shadowing Cuarón on the set of ‘Roma’, the two have now collaborated on Tamhane’s film ‘The Disciple’, for which Cuarón is the producer. In this week’s episode Robert Bound speaks to the duo about what they have learnt from each other’s creative processes, and about ‘The Disciple’ – a film about an Indian classical singer striving to become a master of his art.

Monocle on Culture - Alfonso Cuarón and Chaitanya Tamhane

‘All of this Unreal Time’ is a new film installation made by a creative group for this year’s Manchester International Festival. Written by Max Porter for actor Cillian Murphy, it explores our individual and collective fallibility as one man wanders through London at night addressing his failings. The film is directed by Aoife McArdle and the soundtrack composed by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National along with electronica artist, Jon Hopkins. Robert Bound is joined by Aoife, Jon and Max to talk about the collaborative process.

Monocle on Culture - Max Porter, Jon Hopkins and Aoife McArdle

Simran Hans, Chris Power and Kathlene Fox-Davies give us their top tips for the films to watch, books to read and art exhibitions to catch this summer.

Monocle on Culture - Summer lookahead 2021

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