''The Monocle Weekly''
Monocle 24 itself grew out of ''The Monocle Weekly'', a podcast which first appeared on 28 December 2008. Hosted by editor Andrew Tuck and culture editor Robert Bound, it covers topics such as politics, business and culture and features interviews with big names across several disciplines, and eventually hit download figures as high as 250,000 per month. ''The Monocle Weekly'' is now a one-hour weekend show on the station and is still available as a podcast.Station history
Monocle 24 launched on 17 October 2011 with four live shows on weekdays: ''The Globalist'', ''The Briefing'', ''Midori House'' and ''The Monocle Daily'', as well as several extra shows over the weekend. Surrounding those shows were music hours known as ''The Continental Shift'' and ''The Atlantic Shift'', as well as hour-long themed shows ''Culture with Robert Bound'', ''Section D'', ''The Entrepreneurs'', ''The Urbanist'' and ''The Menu''. The station was branded by bespoke music idents, including a number featuring the voice of pop star Kylie Minogue and the Quiet Nights Orchestra. The running time of ''The Briefing'', ''Midori House'', ''Culture'', ''Section D'', ''The Entrepreneurs'', ''The Urbanist'' and ''The Menu'' was cut from 50 to 30 minutes starting on 2 March 2015. At the same time, new programmes, such as ''The Big Interview'' (weekly) and ''Monocle Arts Review'' (weekdays, 15 minutes long) were added to the schedule. Top-of-the-hour newscasts were also removed from the schedule. The station is influenced by the BBC World Service. Tyler Brûlé said "From the point of view its ambitions for global reach and coverage of world affairs, Monocle 24 will probably resemble and sound like many commonwealth public service broadcasters, including BBC World Service, as well as shades of Australia's ABC and Canada’s CBC. We are hoping to create a station which follows the tradition of the great Commonwealth broadcasters. It’s no surprise that we have drawn a lot of great people from the BBC World Service." Changes to the schedule since its launch have included the introduction in August 2012 of ''The Stack'', a 25-minute-long show on magazines and print media hosted by Tyler Brûlé on Saturday mornings. For around the first 18 months of the show's existence, it was 50 minutes long. In January 2014, the running time was cut to 25 minutes. In April 2013, The Globalist was split into ''The Globalist'' and ''The Globalist Asia'', with the latter focusing more on listeners in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Globalist Asia was last broadcast on 27 December 2013. Saturday and Sunday feature the Weekend Edition, a mix of news, interviews, music and highlights. Portions of Monocle 24 programmes were previously broadcast on ABC Radio National in Australia. Other Monocle 24 output is also broadcast byPast programmes and content
From 17 October 2011 to 2 March 2015, the station broadcast its own newscasts at the top of the hour between 6am and 11pm London time.Presenters
Some of the most frequently heard voices on Monocle 24 are those of magazine staff, such as Tyler Brûlé, Andrew Tuck, Robert Bound, Steve Bloomfield and Sophie Grove. However there are also regular radio staff, such as News Editor Tom Edwards, and producers Markus Hippi and Phil Han, whose voices can be heard across many shows. Freelance staff often appear on the station, such as Georgina Godwin, Nancy Durham, Emma Nelson, Dominic Reynolds, Andrew Mueller, Clemency Burton-Hill, Tadhg Enright, Poppy Trowbridge andReferences
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