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  • Emerging Markets Weekly
  • Each week FT correspondents will bring you the latest news and opinion on big business stories across the emerging world and discuss how the global community is responding to the world's shifting economic sands.
  • Hungary, Brazil, Indonesia and Apple's iPhone 4 in China Jul 25, 2010 - 6:00 pm
  • In this week's podcast: The IMF's thumbs down for Hungary; the surprisingly small rate hike in Brazil; Indonesia's potential bubble; Apple's iPhone 4 exchanging hands in China for inflated rates

    Presented by Josh Noble and joined in the studio by Stefan Wagstyl, the FT's emerging markets editor.

    Contributors: On the line live from Budapest, Chris Bryant, the FT's eastern Europe correspondent, Anthony Deutsch, the FT's correspondent in Jakarta and in a pre-recorded interview the FT's Latin America editor John-Paul Rathbone.

    Produced by LJ Filotrani
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Energy weekly with Ed Crooks
  • Energy Weekly with Ed Crooks
  • A weekly roundup of the top energy news and themes, with the FT's energy team. Presented by Ed Crooks, Energy editor.
  • BP, Turkey and Ofgem Jul 28, 2010 - 6:31 pm
  • In this week's podcast: We look at the swift departure of Tony Hayward and ask what his replacement Bob Dudley has to offer. We also turn our attention to Turkey and the news from the International Energy Agency that the Turkish refiner, Tupras, has stepped in to supply Iran refined petroleum after several other international companies cut off their supplies to the country. And lastly we take a look at what’s going on with Ofgem and its surprising turnaround on the rules surrounding post-privatisation regulation; making it easier for energy companies to raise the money needed to modernise the electricity grid.

    We also say goodbye to Ed Crooks who leaves his job as energy editor for a new post with the FT in New York and we say hello and welcome to his replacement Sylvia Pfeifer.

    Energy Weekly is taking a summer break and will be back in the autumn on September 1.

    Produced by LJ Filotrani
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  • World Weekly with Gideon Rachman
  • Each week World Weekly will be focusing 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
  • Cameron, Rwanda, Cambodia and the marshlands of Louisiana Jul 29, 2010 - 6:40 pm
  • In this week's podcast: We ask whether Cameron's trip to India to build business and commerce relationships has been a success; we ask whether Paul Kagame is likely to hold on to his role as president in the upcoming elections in Rwanda; we ask what the sentencing of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch means for the people of Cambodia; we look at the disappearing marshlands of Louisiana.

    Presented by Tom O'Sullivan with David Blair in the studio.

    Down the line: James Lamont in New Delhi, Harvey Morris in New Orleans.

    Khmer Rouge report: Helen Warrell

    Produced by LJ Filotrani
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FT Money Show
  • FT Money Show
  • The FT Money show: your weekly guide to personal finance
  • Will you 'love' the new Metro Bank? Jul 29, 2010
  • We examine new proposals for lower pension contributions and a longer working life. Will you learn to love your bank? Metro Bank reckons you will. And will your holiday-home become less tax efficient?
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Clive Cookson, FT Science Editor
  • FT Science with Clive Cookson
  • FT Science - covering every aspect from biomedicine to space. Each week we will have a regular contribution from the Washington-based, research magazine Science plus guests in the studio.
  • Biotech and animal testing Jul 27, 2010 - 4:24 pm
  • In this week's podcast: We talk about the biotech industry with Nigel Gaymond, CEO of the UK BioIndustry Association. We also talk about the figures released by the Home Office today on animal testing. Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham, CEO of the Science Council.

    Produced by LJ Filotrani
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  • Banking Weekly
  • FT correspondents discuss the top issues concerning the banking sector
  • Stress test special Jul 26, 2010 - 5:45 pm
  • In the podcast this week: We review the results from the stress testing of European banks, released on Friday. We ask what the market reaction has been and what real impact the results will have going forward. We talk to the secretary of state for economic affairs in the Spanish government, José Manuel Campa about whether he thinks the tests will work in terms of reviving the confidence in the markets.

    Presented by Patrick Jenkins, the FT's banking editor, with markets correspondent, David Oakley in the studio.

    Produced by LJ Filotrani
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FT News podcast
  • FT News
  • News and analysis from FT reporters around the world
  • Wikileaks the war in Afghanistan Jul 26, 2010 - 4:27 pm
  • In the podcast: We ask whether the 75,000 leaked documents covering the period 2004 to 2009 will have any impact on the Obama administration and its Afghan strategy.

    Presented by Tom O'Sullivan, the FT's assistant world news editor, with James Blitz the FT's defence and diplomatic editor.

    Produced by LJ Filotrani
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Martin Wolf's podcast
  • Martin Wolf
  • Martin Wolf, the FT's chief economics commentator, reads his weekly column
  • Three years and new fault lines threaten Jul 13, 2010
  • Leaders of the world’s principal economies – both advanced and emerging – will need to reform co-operatively and deeply if the world economy is not to suffer further earthquakes, says Martin Wolf
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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
  • It’s time to sack job appraisals Jul 13, 2010 - 11:59 am
  • Last week an e-mail went round the office touting for suggestions on ways to improve our performance appraisal system. My suggestion is dead easy and dirt cheap: get rid of the whole thing and replace it with nothing at all.
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FT Digital Business podcast
  • FT Digital Business with Peter Whitehead
  • FT Digital Business looks at the use and management of technology in business, the issues surrounding investment in technology, and thought leadership in areas vital to business decision-makers.
  • Protecting against cyber-attacks Jun 27, 2010 - 5:00 pm
  • In this week's podcast Peter talks to Edward Amoroso, chief security officer at AT&T about critical national infrastructures and what countries and companies can do to protect themselves against cyber-attacks. Also, Stephen Pritchard investigates what companies can do with the enormous amounts of data they collect. He talks to Stephen Brost, chief technology officer for Teradata, a data warehousing and analytics company.
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  • UK election 2010
  • A twice weekly politics roundup with our expert election panel hosted by UK political veteran Robert Shrimsley
  • FT election panel podcast May 04, 2010
  • The FT's panel of experts Miranda Green, Charles Lewington and Matthew Taylor review each party's campaign strategy and suggest which early results on election night might indicate the overall outcome
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Digital Business: Connected Lives
  • FT Digital Business: Connected Lives
  • Connectivity may be rising rapidly up the political agenda, but it has been high on the Digital Business agenda for some time. We pull together the strands, analysing the implications of a connected planet in this series of roundtable discussions
  • Providing connectivity Jun 19, 2009 - 5:00 am
  • How has IT and mobility changed over the past decade? Who still needs to get connected? And how important are industry standards?
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  • Robin Robertson
  • Selected poems
  • Tinsel Mar 11, 2010 - 5:00 am
  • Read by Robin Robertson
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Copenhagen summit podcast
  • Copenhagen summit
  • Daily dispatch from FT reporters at the climate conference in Copenhagen
  • Breaking the deadlock at Copenhagen Dec 17, 2009 - 5:00 am
  • With two days left to secure a deal at the Copenhagen climate conference, the US attempts to break the deadlock by publicly backing a proposal that developed countries should provide poorer nations with $100bn per year by 2020 to fight climate change
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Digital Business: Managing Intelligence
  • FT Digital Business: Managing Intelligence
  • Organisations encounter far more data than any human mind can handle. So how should we use technology to gather information, analyse it, and serve it up in a meaningful, usable form? A special 3-part podcast from Digital Business.
  • Disparate sources: how to use data from a decentralised business in several languages Dec 11, 2009 - 5:00 am
  • Case study 3: how Pernod Ricard has tackled the challenge of gathering and using data from over 70 subsidiaries around the world
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FT Management
  • FT Management
  • Management podcast: interviews showcasing the latest thinking from business school professors and other experts
  • The MBA gender earnings gap Mar 25, 2009 - 4:00 am
  • Marianne Bertrand, professor at economics at Chicago Booth School of Business, explains why women MBAs earn less than their male peers as their careers progress.
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