Markus Hippi looks back on a year of big-name interviews across Monocle 24.

All the best bits from the past week, presented by Markus Hippi. We meet designer, academic and creative director Ilse Crawford; Swiss queen of yodelling Melanie Oesch; and New Zealand cricketer turned skincare entrepreneur Dion Nash.

Here are our highlights from the last seven days on Monocle 24, carefully curated into 60 minutes. This week we look back on the life and legacy of US test pilot Chuck Yeager; we meet renowned chef Thomas Keller; and we head to Berlin to hear the story of the “Pink Pipe”.

TV chef Nigella Lawson on her latest book and television series, former UK MP Peter Hain on his new novel, and fashion designer Dorothee Vogel reveals which staples we should be keeping in our wardrobes.

We speak to Simonetta Sommaruga, president of the Swiss Confederation. Plus: we discuss Joe Biden’s cabinet, Peruvian politics and meet the winner of this year’s Booker prize, Douglas Stuart.

This week: Irish writer and activist Sinéad Burke discusses judging the 2021 International Woolmark prize; Nigella Lawson shares a top recipe; and we meet Norwegian travel writer, Erika Fatland.

All the best bits from the past week on Monocle 24 carefully curated into a 60-minute show presented by Markus Hippi. This week: the former head of NPR and head of news at Twitter, Vivian Schiller, explains just how powerful the US media networks are in the election process; we meet one of the UK’s best-known thriller writers, Robert Harris; and we head to Ecuador for a Tall Story.

We recap the week that was in the US election, meet Skye Parrott to hear about the revamped ‘Playgirl Magazine’ and get a top recipe by one of the world’s leading authorities on Japanese food, Nancy Singleton Hachisu.

What we’ve learned during four years of Trump, letters from our correspondents on how their cities have been handling coronavirus, and interviews with Penny Martin from ‘The Gentlewoman’ and writer and broadcaster James O’Brien.

This week: actress and activist Jane Fonda; the new leader of the Green Party of Canada, Annamie Paul; and the editor of ‘Point.51’, Rob Pinney.