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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
  • Turkey in turmoil over Erdogan's Twitter ban Mar 26, 2014 - 1:20 pm
  • Gideon Rachman is joined by Daniel Dombey, Turkey correspondent, and Leyla Boulton, head of special reports and former Turkey correspondent, to discuss Prime Minister Erdogan's ban on Twitter and what the year ahead holds for the country and its divisive leader. The Twitter ban adds to a growing cloud of controversy, with allegations of corruption and a blackmail ring also engulfing Turkey's political system, but Erdogan has retained much of his support from coservative groups and is still polling broadly above 40 per cent as this weekend's local elections approach
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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
  • In defence of sycophantic wage slaves Mar 25, 2014
  • Luke Johnson is wrong. Flattery is crucial to survival in the corporate world and beyond
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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
  • Return of the covenant light loan, BNP Paribas boss interviewed, Russian ramifications and more Co-op chaos Mar 24, 2014 - 6:10 pm
  • Patrick Jenkins is joined by Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, private equity correspondent, for a look at how debt investors are abandoning normal creditor protections and snapping up riskier "cov-lite" loans at a faster rate and in greater proportions than at the peak of the credit bubble. Martin Arnold reports back from his interview with Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, chief executive of BNP Paribas, who sees investment banking going through a deep transition period as a result of regulation, capital requirements and a shit to electronic exchanges. Daniel Schäfer has the latest on rumblings in Russia, where Austrian banks find themselves particularly exposed, and Sharlene Goff has news of the Co-op Bank, which needs to raise another £400m just three months after its rescue
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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 and Adam Palin
  • Budget special: major pension reforms, ISAs and tax avoidance Mar 20, 2014
  • This week's Budget was nothing short of revolutionary. Jonathan Eley and guests discuss the implications of the Chancellor's reforms for ISA savers, pension holders, and investors in tax avoidance schemes
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FT News podcast
  • FT News
  • News and analysis from FT reporters around the world
  • Reaction to the UK Budget Mar 19, 2014 - 4:08 pm
  • What are the political and personal finance consequences of the George Osborne’s UK Budget announcement? Jonathan Eley, FT personal finance editor, and Robert Shrimsley, editor of FT.com, join Matthew Vincent for the reaction to the Budget.
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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
  • Money trouble: Peter Aspden on arts funding Mar 14, 2014 - 3:10 pm
  • Art and Mammon are uneasy bedfellows: witness the recent furore over the Sydney Biennale. The solution, says the FT’s arts writer, is for institutions to embrace debates over their funding, not run from them
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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
  • Emerging markets special Mar 13, 2014
  • With investors focused on geopolitical risk and evidence of a Chinese slowdown, Delphine Strauss, currencies correspondent, asks Bhanu Baweja, head of emerging market cross asset strategy at UBS, how to explain the relative stability in emerging markets currencies. Also, what are the knock-on effects of China curbing carry trade in the renminbi - and what is up with the Chilean peso?
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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
  • The outlook for IT: consumerisation, data, safety and skills Dec 18, 2013
  • In the podcast:

    We look at some of the key developments in technology over the last few years, from consumerisation and the cloud to cybersecurity and the skills gap.

    And we preview some of the key trends for the rest of this decade.

    With guests Peter Cochrane and PA Consulting's David Elton, and Connected Business contributor Stephen Pritchard.
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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.
  • Economic books of the year Sep 10, 2013 - 11:00 pm
  • In this episode of FT Alphaville's semi-frequent podcast, Cardiff Garcia hosts Diane Coyle and Tyler Cowen to discuss their economics books of the year.
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