The Gentleman‘s Journal Podcast

GJ LIVE: Matthew Freud, PR maestro

As the influential Freuds Group turns 40, its founder and chairman Matthew Freud gives a rare interview on his life and career as a public relations guru.

GJ LIVE: Building a luxury brand from scratch, with Nick English and Luca Faloni

In a live panel discussion, two of the leading voices in modern luxury discuss origin stories, the importance of names, why you should open your first shop as soon as possible — and where they think luxury will go next.

Nick English (co-founder of Bremont; executive chairman of Moke)

Luca Faloni (founder of Luca Faloni)

GJ LIVE: Start-up investment and how to get it

In the first of our special series of live panel conversations, three seasoned VCs share invaluable insights into securing funding, navigating the investment landscape — and the start-ups they passed over that they wish they hadn't...

 

Dinika Mahtani (partner at Cherry Ventures)

Harry Destecroix (co-founder of SCVC)

Harry Stebbings (founder of 20VC)

Graydon Carter, Editor

The legendary editor's new memoir, 'When the Going Was Good', is a delicious dispatch from the golden age of magazines — and a guidebook to the good life, even now.

 

 

The Tao of Toto Wolff

“Play hard, forgive quickly, and apologise when you’re wrong,” says the Mercedes Formula One boss on the eve of a poignant new season.

 

Dom Hamdy

We sit down with Dom Hamdy, the London-based restaurateur who oversees Crispin, Bar Crispin and Bistro Freddie.

Is this the end of the chunky sports watch? Justin Hast's predictions for 2024

Justin Hast is a watch collector and Gentleman's Journal's Watch Editor-at-Large. Today, he sits down with Harry Jarman to talk trends for 2024, the problem with watch boxes, and the time he let a priceless Louis Vuitton timepiece go for next to nothing. 

Cruising the savannah with Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Motoring Editor-at-Large Rory Smith talks us through his interview with Ineos's Sir Jim Ratcliffe — including the unlikely pub origins of the Grenadier car; his surprising shyness; and the Manchester United takeover. Plus! The most exciting new car launches of the year. 

Inside the American Issue

Harry and Joe turn the pages on the new American(ish) Issue of Gentleman's Journal — including tangents on the good life down in Miami; reasons why the 1994 Volvo Estate is the apex of modern culture; booze-less lunches with the creators of Industry; and Rolf Sachs's endless oomph. 

 

Michael Murray — CEO, Frasers Group

Michael Murray is the CEO of Frasers Group, which owns some of Britain's best known retail brands — including House of Fraser, Sports Direct, Flannels, Jack Wills, and Gieves & Hawkes. 

 

Appointed to the role in May last year at the age of just 33, Michael has overseen an impressive leap in fortunes for the company, at a time when the high street seems in greater flux than ever. In a conversation recorded at the Fraser Group HQ, Michael tells us how his childhood growing up in Doncaster shaped his attitude to hard work and why he feels he was always destined to be an entrepreneur — as well as what the government might do to help the ailing high street, and just what the future of retail might hold.