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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
  • Unified comms, and on the trail of the black rhino Feb 08, 2012
  • Can technology help to save endangered species?

    In the first of a short series on novel uses of data analytics, Connected Business speaks to the scientists behind the charity WildTrack, which is using IT tools to monitor animals such as the black rhino.

    Plus, could unified communications be coming back into vogue?

    Presented and produced by Stephen Pritchard
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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
  • Leonard Cohen and Paul McCartney: is there life in the old dogs yet? Feb 07, 2012 - 4:00 pm
  • The arts podcast reviews new albums by two of the most venerable singer-songwriters around: Leonard Cohen's "Old Ideas" and Paul McCartney's "Kisses on the Bottom".

    Have they still got it? Does their latest work speak to modern times? And just what are we to make of Macca's album title?

    Neville Hawcock is joined in the studio by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, FT pop critic, Peter Aspden, FT arts writer, and Gautam Malkani, FT writer and novelist.

    Produced by Griselda Murray Brown
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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.
  • How bonuses will be affected by RBS and upcoming bank earnings, and the European Banking Authority Feb 06, 2012
  • The banking team take a look at Stephen Hester's decision to waive his bonus and what that might mean for future bonuses. They also discuss upcoming UK and Swiss bank earnings and the EBA reaction to bank capital models.

    Presented by Megan Murphy, with Sharlene Goff.
    Produced by Amie Tsang
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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
  • Diplomatic response to Syrian crisis in the balance and elections in Uttar Pradesh Feb 02, 2012 - 6:30 pm
  • With a diplomatic response to the crisis in Syria in the balance at the United Nations, Middle East correspondent Michael Peel, who recently visited Syria, and Middle East editor Roula Khalaf join Shawn Donnan to discuss the situation.
    And, as India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, goes to the polls, FT south Asia bureau chief James Lamont and James Fontanella-Khan explain the importance of the election and the risk faced by the Congress party and the scion of the Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi, in particular.
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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
  • Campaign calls for fund managers to cut fees Feb 02, 2012
  • Why a new campaign wants fund managers to come clean on charges. Also, how competitive are loans from State Bank of India and Bank of China? And, how long have you got to claim for solar panel subsidies.
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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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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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