2024-06-08
33 分钟Writer and social commentator Lijia Zhang joins Georgina Godwin to talk about the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, organising her own protest, China’s relationship with Russia and Ukraine and the K-pop balloons sent to North Korea. Plus: Kate Mosse, author and founder director of the Women’s Prize, joins to discuss the organisation’s live event and Bookbanks founder Emily Rhodes on her initiative bringing books to foodbanks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This edition of Monocle on Saturday was first broadcast on the 8th of June, 2024.
Hello, I'm Georgina Godwin, broadcasting to you live from Midori House in London.
This is Monocle on Saturday.
Coming up on today's program, we'll have a look through the week's news and culture with Li Zheziang, who is a writer, a social commentator and a public speaker.
Then Kate Moss, the founding director of the Women's Prize, gives us a preview of their live event celebrating talented women in literature.
And finally, we find out about the initiative bringing books to food banks.
That's all ahead here on Monacle on Saturday.
First, though, here's the news.
Israel bombarded central and southern areas of Gaza again on Friday, killing at least 28 Palestinians.
And tank forces advanced to the western edges of Rafah.
U S backed Qatari and Egyptian mediators have been trying to facilitate a ceasefire, but sources close to the talk said there are still no signs of a breakthrough.
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Friedrichsen was assaulted by a man in central Copenhagen yesterday.
The assailant was arrested and the PM appeared physically unharmed.
The assault comes two days before head to the polls in the EU elections three weeks ago.
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fitzhau was seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
And retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed earthrise photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in the crash of a small airplane in Washington state.
He was 90.
NASA Chief Bill Nelson paid tribute to Anders with a post of the iconic image of Earth rising over the lunar horizon, saying the former Air Force pilot offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give.
And that's your Monocle Radio news.
Hello and welcome to Monocle on Saturday.