Photographer Gered Mankowitz has shot music’s great and good, from Jimi Hendrix and Kate Bush to the Rolling Stones. In 2014 he stopped by Midori House to discuss his work with the latter, the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band. Original air date: 28 December 2014

Author and journalist Tim Moore joins us to talk about why he rode more than 8,000km along the former Iron Curtain route, as told in his book “The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold”. Plus: film director David Michôd discusses his new Netflix film ‘War Machine’, starring Brad Pitt, and we look at the best of Clerkenwell Design Week with printmaker Alex Booker.

Fashion journalist and author Dana Thomas visited Studio One at Midori house in 2016. She joined Monocle’s Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound to discuss the careers of two maverick fashion talents who had helped shape London’s design identity: Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. Original air date: 28 February 2016.

Photographer and documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield joins us to discuss her new book about the pursuit of affluence, ‘Generation Wealth’. Plus, medical historian Richard Barnett tells us why the history of dentistry has some bite, as told in his book ‘The Smile Stealers’, and we meet composer and contemporary-music creator Aaron Holloway-Nahum.

When American author Garth Risk Hallberg visited Monocle 24 in 2015 he was riding the wave of achieving a literary hit with his debut novel, ‘City on Fire’, which had caused a bidding war from publishers before it hit shelves. He sat down with Monocle’s Robert Bound to explain how he created a phenomenon. Original air date: 1 November 2015.

Writer James Hawes discusses nationality and why his book ‘The Shortest History of Germany’ aims to enlighten and entertain. Plus: Tate Britain curator Clare Barlow talks us through the gallery’s exhibition ‘Queer British Art – 1861 to 1967’ and we meet filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder, whose new documentary ‘Big time’ focuses on influential Danish architect, Bjarke Ingels.

Writer Owen Hatherley joined the Monocle Weekly team in 2015 to explain how Soviet history can be seen through the architecture of former Eastern-bloc nations. Original air date: 29 May 2016.

Columnist and food critic Grace Dent joins the Weekly to discuss London’s culinary scene and the forthcoming London Food Month. Plus: Ben Davis, director of documentary ‘Northern Disco Lights’, tells the unlikely story of Norway’s progressive dance-music scene and French author Laurent Binet discusses the weekend’s election and his politically charged new book ‘The 7th Function of Language’.

Musician and writer Emmy the Great, aka Emma-Lee Moss, joined the Monocle Weekly team last year to discuss how having grown up in Hong Kong and London among multiple languages now informs her songwriting. Original air date: 29 May 2016.

Music legend Booker T Jones joins us to discuss his long and varied career. We also speak to foreign correspondent Judith Matloff about her new book ‘The War is in the Mountains’, and talk creativity and urbanism with Lebanese artist Nadim Karam, whose show ‘Urban Stories’ opened in London this week.