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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
  • Sarkozy trails in the polls and US Republicans' search for a candidate continues Jan 26, 2012 - 6:30 pm
  • France's Presidential campaign has begun ahead of the first round of voting in April, and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande is leading opinion polls. Paris bureau chief Hugh Carnegy and Europe editor Ben Hall join Shawn Donnan to discuss whether Nicolas Sarkozy could be facing defeat. Across the Atlantic, as Barack Obama set out his stall in the State of the Union address this week, the Republican party’s search for a candidate to oppose him in November grew ever more acrimonious and colourful. Chief US commentator Ed Luce and Washington bureau chief Richard McGregor join the show to discuss the campaign.
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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. Matthew Vincent 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
  • How you can buy into the Chinese renminbi Jan 26, 2012
  • FT Money reporters look at how investors can make money from strong currencies. We also examine how charges can eat into your pension and what's happening to mortgage rates at the moment.
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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
  • Managing customers, and a CIO at CES Jan 25, 2012 - 12:01 am
  • In this week's podcast:

    How do companies use technology to look after their customers?

    We hear from two different businesses, manufacturer Eaton and bar and nightclub operator Novus Leisure.

    Plus a CIO's view of the Consumer Electronics Show from Evershed's Paul Caris.

    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
  • If you have to reject me, tell me straight Jan 24, 2012
  • No one appreciates hollow good wishes from someone who is telling them to shove off, says Lucy Kellaway
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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.

    Megan Murphy, investment banking correspondent

    Megan specialises in finance and banking, with a particular focus on global banks.

    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.
  • Global bank capital rules, FSA pressure on banks' bonus pools and US bank earnings Jan 23, 2012
  • This week the banking team talk about France and Germany's efforts to get global bank capital requirements relaxed. They also discuss the Financial Service Authority pressure on banks to cut bonus pools to reflect huge losses triggered by mis-sold loan insurance, and the reports on US bank earnings.

    Presented by Patrick Jenkins, with Brooke Masters and Megan Murphy.
    Produced by Amie Tsang
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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
  • Death of the pop critic? Jan 13, 2012 - 7:13 pm
  • As the winners of the BBC’s Sound of 2012 poll are announced, FT deputy arts editor Neville Hawcock asks three of the judges: who are the real “tastemakers”? What’s more important nowadays, a rave review or hits on YouTube? And how do unsigned artists make it?

    He is joined in the studio by FT pop critics Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and Richard Clayton, and NME assistant reviews editor and blogger Laura Snapes; music clips from Sound of 2012 winner Michael Kiwanuka, as well as Context, Emeli Sandé and Skrillex.

    Produced by Griselda Murray Brown
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FT News podcast
  • FT News
  • News and analysis from FT reporters around the world
  • Clive Cookson talks neutrinos with Pier Oddone Dec 16, 2011
  • FT science editor Clive Cookson talks neutrinos with Pier Oddone, director of leading US particle physics centre Fermilab
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  • FT Alphachat
  • In each edition of Alphachat, the bloggers from FT Alphaville and an invited guest will delve deeply into a topic or theme related to financial markets. Expect the same wonkiness, humour, and occasional irreverence that you find on Alphaville itself.
  • Interview with Goldman’s Jan Hatzius Dec 21, 2011
  • Jan Hatzius, the chief US economist for Goldman Sachs, explains to FT Alphaville’s Cardiff Garcia why he expects US growth to slow in the first half of 2012. Mr Hatzius says the US economy is particularly vulnerable to European banks with significant US holdings.
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