The Big Interview

Monocle’s executive editor Steve Bloomfield sits down with actor, writer and artist Antony Sher to discuss the guilt of growing up during Apartheid, bringing Shakespeare to the masses and how he overcame his own conflicts in order to get where he is today.

Monocle’s culture editor Robert Bound sits down with journalist and documentary maker Jon Ronson to discuss getting non-fiction stories to the big screen, representing the fringes of society and how amateur psychology almost took over his life.

Monocle’s editor in chief Tyler Brûlé sits down this week with designer, painter and art teacher Paula Scher. Together they talk about standing out in a crowd, adapting with the times and how the little things in life make a big difference in branding.

Steve Bloomfield sits down with one of the world’s greatest and most interesting architects, Daniel Libeskind. Perhaps best known for the Jewish Museum in Berlin and for being master planner for New York’s Ground Zero, Libeskind discusses the state of the world, optimism and the place he calls home.

Tom Edwards sits down in Munich with leading graphic designer Mirko Borsche. With clients ranging from ‘Zeit Magazin’ to the Bavarian State Opera, Borsche is one of the most exciting creative voices working in editorial design today. Hear about his early career in London, how he keeps his clients happy and his thoughts on the state of German design.

British actor Ian McKellen welcomes Monocle’s culture editor Robert Bound to his home for this week’s edition of ‘The Big Interview’. In this candid discussion of a life lived fully onscreen, onstage and off, the film icon reflects on unexpected Hollywood superstardom and why coming out as openly gay has had a profound effect on his work. Ian McKellen is currently starring in ‘Mr Holmes’ and ‘The Dresser’.

Monocle’s Robert Bound meets the great graphic designer Milton Glaser in New York City to talk about attentiveness, using design to do good and being the man who got us saying ‘I heart NY’.

Acclaimed Turkish writer Elif Shafak talks to Georgina Godwin about the art of storytelling, the great promise of language and the polarisation of Turkish society and public space.

Award-winning British performer Will Young talks to Monocle’s Georgina Godwin about life on stage and screen, campaigning against discrimination and the experience of turning instant fame into long-term success after being an early winner of the worldwide ‘Idol’ franchise.

Boundary-breaking British designer Thomas Heatherwick speaks to Monocle’s Andrew Tuck about building a business, revamping the great London bus and the inspiration to place people – and plants – at the heart of the River Thames.