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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 - Egypt's presidential election
- Egyptians are voting in the first democratic presidential election in their nation's history this week, but with the powers of the office that the winner will hold still unclear and the economy in tatters, many questions remain. Heba Saleh and Borzou Daragahi, FT correspondents in Egypt, and Roula Khalaf, Middle East editor, join Shawn Donnan to discuss.
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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.
- Bankia’s bailout, free retail banking and cost cutting in investment banks
- The wider implications of the bailout of Spain’s second biggest bank, is it the end of the road for free banking in the UK, and are investment banks really cost cutting?
Presented by Patrick Jenkins, with Sharlene Goff, Daniel Schäfer and Brooke Masters
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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
- Who's afraid of Pina Bausch?
- The late choreographer and high priestess of Tanztheater Pina Bausch once said she was not interested in how people move but in what moves them.
As part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Barbican Centre and Sadler’s Wells will stage Bausch's 10 Cities.
Peter Aspden talks to Alistair Spalding, artistic director of Sadler’s Wells and a friend of Bausch, and to FT dance critic Clement Crisp, who “owns to a mistrust of Tanztheater, or dance-theatre, or Euro-tedium – call it what you will.”
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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
- The other view on Greece and QE prospects for the US and UK
- FT currencies correspondent Alice Ross talks to Steven Saywell, head of FX currency strategy in Europe at BNP Paribas about why he thinks a Greek exit is unlikely and remains bullish on the euro, as well as a look ahead to the US non-farm payroll data and the prospects for more quantitative easing in the US and UK.
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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
- Small mistakes attract the biggest trouble
- Lucy Kellaway on why smart people will always make stupid errors
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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 - Eurozone crisis special - your pensions, savings and mortgages
- Will your pension be reduced and what can you do about it? How safe are your savings - if they're only protected by the European safety scheme? And will your mortgage rise - even if the UK interest rates are cut?
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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 - Cloudy, with hints of a revolution?
- In this week's podcast:
What do we understand by the cloud, how should companies decide which IT to run there, and how do they go about moving to the cloud?
Plus how the UK's Met Office is using the cloud for a citizen-based weather observation project.
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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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- 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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