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Hello and welcome to the Curator on Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gustava Chico.
Over the next 60 minutes, we'll be bringing you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week of coverage on Monaco Radio with highlights from our studios here on Midori House and from around the world.
This week we speak with former Eurovision winner, the Ukrainian singer Jamala.
The album restores the memory of an entire nation through the melodies, lyrics and voices.
For me, it's an immersive journey through the world of Crimean Tata culture.
Plus, Monaco's editor in chief Tell us all about Monaco's new December January issue.
The pictures are absolutely extraordinary and I was just so impressed when I saw these pictures.
It reminded me almost of Mecca or something, these crowds swirling around.
All that and much more in the next hour here on the Curator with me, Fernando Gustava Secu.
And we start the show with the latest foreign desk explainer as we wait to hear who Romania will vote as President Andrew Muller explains why the shocking result should not be that shocking.
Politics, especially modern politics, is distinguished from all other fields in that relevant experience and hard won expertise appear to be positive disadvantages when seeking employment.
The same voters who would not trust their teeth to an enthusiastic amateur dentist fly with an untrained pilot who just thought it might be fun to have a go at it or rejoice if their preferred football club awarded the manager's job to some bellicose heckler out of the grandstand, seem happy time and again to elect to their highest offices posturing yahoos who have somehow managed to leverage their lack of qualifications as a virtue.
Romanians voted on Sunday in the first round of their presidential election.
The five top polling candidates, to reduce them to extremely pithy cvs, were a former general and prime minister, an MP who also leads a decent sized opposition party, the current prime minister, a former television journalist turned serial reality TV contestant, a weirdo conspiracy theorist who has never held elected office in what observers who appear not to have noticed the entire 21st century are calling a shock result.
The two who won through to a second round runoff on December 8 were Elena Lasconi, Romania's 2013 Celebrity MasterChef champion, and Kalan Georgescu, the seething hyper nationalist with a popular TikTok account.
A caveat at this point.
As of this recording, two minor candidates have petitioned Romania's Constitutional Court to annul the whole thing, claiming that Georgescu's vote was fraudulently obtained.
The beaks will hear these arguments tomorrow before we plough on re what the weekend's result means.
We should probably acknowledge, though we for one current affairs explainer believe our point stands, that our summary of both candidates lives and accomplishments has been arguably somewhat reductive.
Eleanor Lisconi was also on I'm a Celebrity, get me out of Here.