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The African stage has a new major player.

For Monocle Radio, I'm Andrew Mueller.

Can we really call an octogenarian the comeback kid? Lula defies the odds in Brazil.

Should rioters be served with a bill along with a summons? And if pedestrianisation can rescue Oxford Street, is there anything it can't do? I'm Andrew Mueller.

The Monocle Daily starts now.

Hello and welcome to the Monocle Daily coming to you from our studios here at Midori House in London.

I'm Andrew Mueller.

My guests Antonio Sampaio and Alex von Tunzelmann will discuss today's big stories and we'll hear from Toronto as voters there choose their next mayor.

Stay tuned.

All that and more coming up right here on the Monocle Daily.

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We learned that Finland's olive pluckers, competing in the annual Olive Off on the Croatian island of Brac, harvested in their allotted 45 minutes 55 kilograms of olives, a feat which will now be placed into context by Monocle's Helsinki correspondent Petri Bertsov, speaking with the frenzied excitability for which his people are famous.

They have picked olives excellently.

It is tremendously exciting.

Reiterating its commitment to the Ottawa Treaty, Norway has regretted this brutal means of protecting territory, arguing that holding the moral high ground also remains important.

For Monocle Radio, I'm Andrew Mueller.

My guests, Suzanne Lynch in Brussels, Alexis Self, and Sophie Monahan Coombs here in London, will discuss the day's big stories.

We'll also go behind the scenes at Frieze, and we've got Andrew Mueller's weekly What We Learned as well.

Stay tuned.

All that and more coming up right here on The Monocle Daily.

Frieze and Frieze Masters does continue throughout this weekend here in London at Regent's Park.

Stop by if you're able.

But finally on today's show, Andrew Mueller may be in New Delhi himself, but that hasn't stopped him from sending us his weekly musings on the happenings of this week.

Here is what we learned.

Now, Monocle's team is in New Delhi all of this week.

You've been hearing from Andrew Mueller a couple of times on the briefing already.

There's a series of panels and events happening as this show goes to air.

Say hello if you're in Delhi.

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As we wrap up the week, it is only fitting that we begin today's show with Monocle's contributing editor, Andrew Mueller.

He's going to be telling us what we know now that we didn't know seven days ago.

Here is Andrew with this week's What We Learned.

Next, we turn to Wednesday's edition of the Monocle Daily, where our panelists Alyona Hlyvko and Charles Hecker discussed everything from protests in Paris to Vladimir Putin's birthday to why mathematicians are rebelling against AI.

The show ended, however, with an interesting discussion about the nature of nonverbal communication.

Here is Andrew Mueller to tell us more.

Now to a question of etiquette raised by researchers in the Netherlands who have been considering the circumstances in which it is permissible to express oneself non-verbally, i.e. by such means as laughing, gasping, groaning, screaming, or perhaps sighing at such discoveries as seriously that non-verbal vocal sounds were more acceptable at home or in social settings like bars and parties than at work, at school, or in libraries.

Plus, when it comes to flying safely, we'll find out why Aegean, Ryanair and Austrian rank so highly.

We also have the latest news on arts and culture, and Andrew Mueller is here to remind us what we learned this week.

That is all up ahead on The Globalist, live from London.

How are you doing, Chris Chermak?

Now, the Middle East is one of the fastest growing markets in the world for podcasts.

But how do listeners' tastes in the region differ from those in the West?

Well, at the recent Arab Media Summit, Monocle's Andrew Mueller sat down with Spotify's Mshari Al-Anaizi, who's responsible for the company's podcast output in the region.

And they began by talking about the boom in podcasts in the Middle East.