Winter Weekend

11/16/19 • 30 min

Georgina Godwin shakes off the winter chill at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates as she takes a tour of the Louvre Abu Dhabi and meets the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation.

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Winter weekend

On Monocle’s new weekend programme, Georgina Godwin discusses the value of a good bookshop with Bill Samuel, grandson of the founder of Foyles. Plus: Petri Burtsov tours Muji’s new Helsinki outpost, Bill Leuty takes a winter dip in Zürich and Ben Rylan meets film-maker Kelly Reichardt as her breakout success ‘Old Joy’ enters the Criterion Collection.

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Conservation biologist Thor Hansen discusses the vital role bees play in nature. Plus: the campaign to save the modernist architecture of Argentina’s Ariston Club and Ben Rylan examines how corporate changes have reshaped the films we watch.