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  • World Weekly with Gideon Rachman
  • Each week World Weekly focuses on some of the major international political stories that are making the headlines - drawing upon the FT's team of foreign correspondents and international analysts to make sense of world events

    Presented by Gideon Rachman

    To take part in the show or to comment please email audio@ft.com
  • The French intervention in Mali Jan 16, 2013 - 5:30 pm
  • Why has France intervened militarily in Mali and what is at stake? William Wallis, Africa editor; Hugh Carnegy, Paris bureau chief, and Xan Rice, FT correspondent in west Africa, join Gideon Rachman.
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Digital Business: Connected Lives
  • FT Connected Business
  • Information technology provides the infrastructure backbone for companies today. The Connected Business series of podcasts examines how business leaders can use IT to improve performance and exploit new opportunities for growth.

    Presented by Stephen Pritchard
  • Can business be social? Jan 15, 2013
  • In this week's podcast:

    We hear from PA Consulting's Nathan Sage, MWD Advisors' Angela Ashenden, and Rob Howard, founder of Telligent, about how social tools and social intelligence are changing the workplace.

    Presented and produced by Stephen Pritchard
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Lucy Kellaway's podcast
  • Listen to Lucy
  • Lucy Kellaway, the FT's management columnist, pokes fun at management fads and jargon, and celebrates the ups and downs of office life
  • Bosses fail the 10-year-old test Jan 15, 2013
  • Lucy Kellaway says that a CEO ought to be able to explain what he does in a way a child can grasp
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  • Banking Weekly
  • Each week the FT banking team discuss the biggest banking stories of the week, bringing you global insight and commentary on the top issues concerning this sector.

    To take part in the show or to comment please email audio@ft.com

    The banking team are:

    Patrick Jenkins, banking editor

    Patrick covers major global banks with a particular focus on Europe, as well as leading the FT’s global financial services reporting team.

    Brooke Masters, chief regulation correspondent

    Brooke covers financial regulation and white collar crime in the UK and globally . She was previously City correspondent and a senior business writer based in New York.

    Sharlene Goff, retail banking correspondent

    Sharlene has also worked as the FT’s deputy personal finance editor. She has won a number of awards including the 2007 Headline Money Award for the Rising Star of the Year.
  • Taxman set to lose as Goldman considers delaying UK bonuses Jan 14, 2013
  • In this week’s podcast the banking team discuss the possibility that Goldman Sachs might delay paying its UK bonuses until the start of the new tax year, when the top rate of income tax drops from 50 to 45 per cent. They also look at RBS considering recouping half of its imminent libor fine from its 2012 bonus pool, and UBS chiefs giving evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards
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  • Hard Currency
  • The FT's currency show takes a hard look at what's driving the largest market in the world, discussing market trends, political and economic factors affecting global currencies. Correspondent Alice Ross talks to global experts on the foreign exchange market about their views on the week ahead
  • The euro surge and the outlook for the Swiss franc Jan 13, 2013 - 2:00 pm
  • With the euro close to nine-month highs on signals from the European Central Bank that interest rates are set to hold steady, Alice Ross, currencies correspondent, asks Michael Sneyd, foreign currency analyst at BNP Paribas, whether the rally is set to continue. Also, what are the chances of more intervention in the franc from the Swiss National Bank, and where next for the Yen?
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FT Money Show
  • FT Money Show
  • The FT Money Show brings you engaging and insightful coverage of the week’s major personal finance issues. Jonathan Eley and his team of FT journalists dissect the news with the help of leading industry commentators and discuss how the latest events will affect you and your pocket.

    From pensions to private equity, building society accounts to bank shares, the Money Show tackles difficult topics in an entertaining and informative way.

    The FT Money Show is produced by Lucy Warwick-Ching
  • Retail Price Index news, PPI mis-selling compensation and RDR orphans Jan 10, 2013
  • We explain what the retail prices index is and why it's important. Then we discuss whether websites can replace financial advice. And end with whether banks are stalling on PPI mis-selling compensation.
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FT News podcast
  • FT News
  • News and analysis from FT reporters around the world
  • A very Alphaville Christmas Dec 21, 2012
  • David Keohane and Izabella Kaminska are joined for FT Alphaville’s Christmas podcast by Dylan Grice, until recently part of Société Générale’s global strategy team, to discuss the economy in 2013, robots, patents, inflation and, perhaps most importantly, the difference between a Star Trek and a Star Wars economy.
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FT Arts podcast
  • FT Arts
  • Each week the arts podcast brings you interviews and studio discussions on the latest arts stories and cultural trends, with contributions from the FT’s roster of critics and commentators
  • All's fair Oct 02, 2012 - 11:00 pm
  • London will host seven international art fairs during October, including Frieze London and Frieze Masters, and there will be three more in European cities. FT Arts editor Jan Dalley, dealer and gallerist Thomas Dane, FT Collecting columnist Georgina Adam and Stephanie Dieckvoss, director of Art 13, a new event launching in March 2013, discuss the global appetite for this kind of showcase and the dangers of “fairtigue”
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