2025-01-01
29 分钟You're listening to the Briefing, first broadcast on the 1st of January, 2025 on Monocle Radio.
Hello, and a very happy new year to you.
Welcome to a special edition of the Briefing, broadcasting to you live from Studio one here.
Here at Midori House in London, I'm Tom Edwards.
This New Year's Day, we're taking a look and listen back at some of the biggest interviews from across Monocle Radio in the past 12 months.
Coming up on today's program, best selling author Elif Shafak discusses her new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky.
For me, the whole novel is a love letter or a love poem to water.
Water is the biggest mystery in our lives.
We take it for granted when we talk about climate crisis.
Actually we're talking about fresh water crisis.
And there are massive political, cultural and social consequences.
The one and only Lord Foster, on his part in the renovation of one of San Francisco's most recognizable buildings.
We have stripped away the cobwebs of time where the spaces have been compromised.
So it's bringing back a new life, a new identity.
But it's not just the Tower as a building in isolation, it's an entire city block.
It's a kind of city within a city.
Baroque rock band the Last Dinner Party, on their experimentation in both music and fashion.
We can combine like a Victorian corset with a glam rock thing and they can both work on the same stage equally with baroque element in music combined with like a dad rock guitar solo that's stylistic but not committed to uniformity at all.
It's actually much more freeing than that because within this band, musically and aesthetically, you can combine anything and it just somehow works.
And we hear from actor Jeffrey Wright, star of satirical film American fiction.