Monday, May 25, 2009

Porta's Listen...The Monocle Weekly - Edition 22





Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck pay a visit to Tokyo for this week's show and are joined in the studios of J-Wave by Monocle's Asia editor Fiona Wilson. They talk about the extraordinary success of niche-interest manga and anime with Leo Lewis, Asia business correspondent for The Times and get a lesson on traditional Izakaya cuisine - known as the most friendly form of Japanese dining - by author and journalist Mark Robinson. Also in the studio is Verbal, one half of Japanese hip-hop group and firm Monocle favourite M-Flo, who plays us his favourite tracks of the moment and gives us an update on the big plans to celebrate M-Flo's 10th anniversary.


CONTRIBUTORS

THIS WEEK IN THE STUDIO
-24 May

Verbal
Rapper, DJ and producer, M-FLO


Fiona Wilson
Bureau Chief Asia


Tyler Brûlé
Editor in chief


Mark Robinson
Author, editor and journalist


Leo Lewis
Asia business correspondent, The Times


Editor

Credits
Producer: Alexander Mills
Sound Engineer: Chris Sharp
Photographer: Norio Koga
Editor: Aleksander Solum

You can listen to the broadcasts at The Monocle Weekly website or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.