Charles Hecker

I'm Andrew Mueller.

My guests Zoe Grunewald and Charles Hecker will discuss the day's big stories, and we'll hear from the former British MP and Minister Tobias Elwood about his new book outlining the means of averting a third world war.

Stay tuned.

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

This is the Monocle Daily.

I'm Andrew Mueller, and I'm joined today by Zoe Grunewald, Westminster editor at The Lead, and by Charles Hecker, political risk and Russia analyst and associate fellow at RUSI.

Hello to you both.

Hello.

This is fun.

And Charles Hecker with a look through the papers.

Good morning.

Charles, what have you found?

But first, let us set the scene here in London.

Alex von Tenselman, historian, broadcaster and screenwriter, and for the purposes of today, London Alex.

And Charles Hecker, author and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, RUSI.

Charles, Chuck.

You are with The Curator, our weekly highlights show here on Monocle Radio.

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.

Mm.

And that goes back to my previous comment.

That was Alyona Lifko and Charles Hecker playing our game, speaking to Monocle's contributing editor Andrew Mueller for Wednesday's edition of the Monocle Daily.

Still to come here on The Curator, Gabe Klinger, director of Isabelle, tells us how he started his career as a film critic, we'll meet the CEO of Bloomingdale's, Olivier Braun, to discuss the reinvention of the department store, and we'll sit down with the singer-songwriter Leon Bridges to talk about his new album, Happiness Anytime.

I'm Andrew Mueller.

My guests Alena Hlivko and Charles Hecker will discuss today's big stories and we'll have the latest from Paris as student-led protests appear to be escalating.

Stay tuned.

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

This is the Monocle Daily.

I'm Andrew Mueller and I'm joined today by Alena Hlivko, founder and CEO at the St James' Foreign Policy Think Tank and Charles Hecker, Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.

Hello to you both.

Hello.

So, OK, September 28th, Moscow's audacious asset grab is a warning to Western companies.

So here, Charles Hecker says the Kremlin said that Western companies choosing to stay in Russia made the right decision and were good corporate citizens.

Then it pounced.

And it's going to take its pound of flesh.