The magCulture Podcast
Podcast by magCulture
Episodes
May 28, 2025 • 82 mins
This episode’s guests came to publishing via very different routes.
First up, Jonathan Nunn, outspoken founder of food Substack Vittles, joins Jeremy at the magCulture Shop. To mark the fifth anniversary of the newsletter, he’s published the first print edition of Vittles, a chunky piece of publishing that builds on the strengths of the digital platform, echoing the theme of our recent magCulture Live NYC25—The Return to Print. J...
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April 8, 2025 • 44 mins
The magCulture Podcast returns after a brief break, with a double-header featuring interviews with the people behind two new magazines, All Things Measured, and M Le Monde International.
All Things Measured is a magazine about the shared obsession with measuring our lives. Published by Romanian artist Andreea Samoila, it’s an extension of her art practice. She talks about the concept behind her magazine, introduces the issue theme...
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February 23, 2025 • 40 mins
As the National Portrait Gallery’s survey of photography from The Face magazine opened to ecstatic reviews, the magazine’s founder/editor Nick Logan and art director Neville Brody met for a rare live interview. We’re excited to share a recording of their conversation here, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.
The conversation took place at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday 20 February 2025, and was chaired by The Fac...
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September 12, 2024 • 51 mins
For this 40th anniversary episode of the Podcast, Jeremy is joined by Danielle Pender, founder of Riposte, and Kai von Rabenau, founder of mono.kultur. They discuss the return to print of the two magazines after a three-year gap, and the changes and learnings the two publisher/editors have noted over the long runs of their magazines.
Danielle published 13 editions of Riposte as ‘A smart magazine for women’, before moving into fict...
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April 25, 2024 • 56 mins
This episode looks at the role of illustration in publishing, with two guests whose magazines rely on drawn images to bring their pages to life.
Cathy Olmedillas launched her ‘happy mag for kids’ Anorak 18 years ago, and has developed an international audience for its colourfully themed quarterly editions. The magazine is also one of a set that launched early in the noughties that can be viewed today as the ‘original’ indies. She...
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November 24, 2023 • 94 mins
This episode features two of the international guests that spoke at our recent magCulture Live London 2023 event. Both joined us a couple of days after the event to discuss their publications in more detail, revealing a shared passion for print.
After a brief reflection on magCulture Live from Jeremy and Danielle, and a look at some recent new magazines, we hear from our two guests.
Debra Bishop is design director of the New York...
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October 13, 2023 • 50 mins
We learn about two very different magazines this episode, the common thread being events and tenth anniversaries.
After Jeremy and Danielle give an update on the 10th anniversary edition of magCulture Live, London, and discuss a few current magazines favourites from our shelves (including Disco Pogo, WePresent and Litt), Jeremy talks to Penny Martin, editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman. Their 28th issue has just been published, but...
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August 24, 2023 • 75 mins
This episode features major players from two different areas of magazine publishing.
First, Rob Orchard, co-founder of Delayed Gratification, discusses reaching the landmark 50th issue of the original slow journalism indie.
Then Gail Bichler, creative director of The New York Times Magazine and one of the most successful and influential editorial designers of our time, shares her thoughts on collaboration, team chemistry and th...
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Ernst van der Hoeven and Kirsten Algera, the creative team behind MacGuffin talk to Jeremy Leslie as their 12th issue, The Log, arrives in shops; Alison Branch, managing director of Park Communications, discusses a new book designed to help clients print sustainably, and we hear an excerpt from a recent shop event featuring Jonathan Simons of Analog Sea Review.
Before we meet our guests, Jeremy Leslie gives a quick update on magCu...
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February 23, 2023 • 72 mins
Jeremy Leslie meets editorial creative director Andrew Diprose at the magCulture Shop, and also trades magazine retail experience with Nicola Hamilton, who opened the magazine shop Issues in Toronto six months ago.
A passionate advocate for magazines and print, Andrew Diprose was creative director at the UK edition of Wired for fourteen years, leaving last year to lead Soho House group’s editorial creative department. While at Wir...
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November 18, 2022 • 50 mins
This episode features two magazines, the long established Buffalo Zine and new launch Linseed Journal.
Buffalo Zine co-founder David Uzquiza joins Jeremy Leslie at the magCulture Shop to discuss a few recent magazines (Real Review, Baroness, Epoch, Safelight Paper and Elephant) before the two are joined via Zoom from Paris by David’s Buffalo Zine partner Adrian Gonzalez-Cohen. The three discuss the shapeshifting fashion magazine a...
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September 16, 2022 • 65 mins
We hear from two very different magazine makers this episode.
As his book about launching nineties supermag Loaded is published, publishing entrepreneur James Brown joins Jeremy at the magCulture Shop to select his indie favourites, including Electronic Sound, The Square Ball and Whalebone. The two discuss how the Loaded phenomenon exploded, and James shares his passion for magazines. His book about Loaded, ‘Animal House’ is publ...
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We welcome three very different voices for this episode: Liv Siddall (WePresent), Dave Calhoun (Time Out) and Natalia Rachlin (Mother Tongue).
First, ex co-host Liv Siddall joins Jeremy at the magCulture Shop for a quick look at some new magazines from our shelves. Hear their thoughts on Boys! Boys! Boys!, Plethora, A Profound Waste of Time and OOF.
Liv and Jeremy then talk about the new issue of WePresent magazine, a fascinatin...
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April 29, 2022 • 63 mins
A design special featuring two magazines with highly unique visual identities.
During her first visit to London, Editorial Magazine founder Claire Milbraith joins Jeremy and Danielle at the magCulture Shop to discuss recent new issues including Emergence and Mushroom People, and the extraordinary design of her own magazine.
Then Jeremy talks to Richard Turley about the brand new sixth issue of Civilization, its use of AI to creat...
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March 2, 2022 • 55 mins
This special edition of the magCulture Podcast marks the 15th anniversary of Monocle. Jeremy Leslie talks to the magazine’s founder and editorial director Tyler Brûlé as issue 151 arrives from the printers.
The two discuss the origins of the magazine, its growth over the years, Brûlé’s mistrust of social media, the importance of tone of voice, and surviving the pandemic. They also reflect on the further launches—including the rec...
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February 16, 2022 • 76 mins
The episode opens with Jeremy Leslie and magCulture shop manager/writer Danielle Mustarde discussing recent issues of Good Place La Nueva Carne and Electronic Sound magazines. We then meet two guests, one a magazine-maker, the other a keen magazine observer.
The first is John Holt, the man behind the remarkable LAW magazine. Its 10th issue was our recent magazine of the month. He shares the passion for England and Englishlishness ...
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December 22, 2021 • 50 mins
Our final Podcast episode of 2021 features three magazines linked by name to celebratory foods. Its origins lie in a planned live event; with Covid rearing its head again we converted the idea into a podcast.
First up, art director Holly Catford talks to Jeremy Leslie via Zoom from Bristol about the many deadlines she faces as the year ends, and in particular Cheese magazine. Issue two of the ‘Magazine of Culture’ hits shops just ...
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November 25, 2021 • 40 mins
Riposte magazine founder Danielle Pender joins Jeremy Leslie at the magCulture Shop, we hear an excerpt from our recent magCulture Meets The Modernist event, and take a quick look back at football mag Mundial.
Danielle and Jeremy share a few finds from the magCulture shelves—Meantime, Now You Know, The Fence and The Plant—before sitting down to talk about the brand new 13th issue of Riposte. Danielle explains how after the pandemi...
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August 9, 2021 • 53 mins
Jeremy Leslie is joined by two guests for this episode; one is a long-established indie publisher, the other a design director known for her branding work. Both have plenty to share about magazine-making.
First, Pentagram partner (and film director)Marina Willer joins Jeremy at the magCulture Shop. She’s just redesigned film magazine Sight and Sound. First published in 1932, the redesign is a major revamp of the longstanding title...
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May 7, 2021 • 51 mins
Jeremy Leslie talks to Fantastic Man founders Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers about life in lockdown, reinventing their magazine, their new Reuse issue, and how details matter.
Plus Emmanuelle Goutal pops by the magCulture Shop to introduce her beautiful interiors mag Objection.
The back issue is German design mag Form+Zweck – check their archive at: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/131153/1/0/
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