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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
- Haven currencies, who’s selling the euro and the Australian dollar
- Currencies correspondent Alice Ross explores the trends driving the global currencies market, this week focusing on sterling’s status as a haven currency, why the euro is still strong against the dollar and how a further rate cut in Australia will impact the carry trade.
This week’s guest is Paul Robson, senior currency analyst at Royal Bank of Scotland. 
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- 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
- Rappers and reality: has hip hop lost touch with its roots?
- Hip hop may have started in the Bronx, but today’s rappers are millionaires with business empires that extend way beyond music. Ahead of Jay Z and Kanye West's European tour of their joint album Watch The Throne, Raphael Abraham talks to FT critics Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and Richard Clayton about the evolution and future of rap.
With clips from The Sugarhill Gang, Jay Z and Kanye West, Evidence and DJ Shadow.
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- 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 - Europe in crisis - is there anything investors can do to protect their portfolios?
- Should investors move to safe havens or sit tight and try to ride out the storm? We ask Tom Stevenson of Fidelity Worldwide Investments. HSBC backtracks on its home loan process and how will pensions income be hit for the gender rules?
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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 - Greece in political limbo
- With Greece in political limbo ahead of a new election in June, what is the the economic and political future of that country and the eurozone? How feasible is for Greece to leave the euro, and how are other European countries managing the increasingly anti-bailout mood in Athens? Gideon Rachman is joined by Kerin Hope, the FT's Athens correspondent; Chris Giles, the FT's economics editor, and Tony Barber, the FT's Europe editor.
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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.
- How to restore confidence in Spanish banks
- This week the banking team is joined by Miles Johnson in Madrid to talk about the impact of the eurozone crisis on Spain and Greece, the specialist treasury operation at JPMorgan that lost $2bn, and Canary Wharf, the 'new' financial centre which is set to overtake the City of London as the biggest banking hub in Europe.
Presented by Patrick Jenkins, with Sharlene Goff, Daniel Schäfer and Miles Johnson.
Produced by Katie Carnie
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- 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 - Big data, security myths, and value for money from IT
- In this week’s podcast:
Is Big Data a useful tool for business, or is it just the latest technology trend to be overhyped? The consultants at KPMG think firms may be paying too much attention to poor data.
But boards are not paying enough attention to information security, and even when they do spend money, they may not feel safer, argues PA Consulting.
Plus: Gartner's Michael Smith on how companies can drive more value from their investments in IT.
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- FT News
- News and analysis from FT reporters around the world
- Business Book of the Year: challenges for the book industry
- Lionel Barber, FT editor, interviews James Daunt, managing director of Waterstone's, the big UK book chain, about the destiny of bricks-and-mortar booksellers and the challenges for publishers, agents, and authors at a roundtable to mark the opening for entries of the 2012 FT - Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
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- 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
- Flattery will get you what you want
- Lucy Kellaway argues that facts have little traction in the art of persuasion
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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
- 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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