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• Our final episode: thank you

  January 17, 2025 · 60 min

  This is it. Today we present you a massive special episode full of wisdom, which answers your final pressing questions. Listeners wrote in from around the world — from Perth to Virginia to Prague — asking about music, cooking, careers…

• Cultural predictions for 2025: the year we accept the chaos

  December 23, 2024 · 35 min

  It’s a time-honored tradition: for the third year in a row, FT Weekend editor-at-large Matt Vella joins Lilah to reflect on this past year, and muse on the coming one. We’ve asked listeners to send their predictions and wishes for 2025…

• The perfect winter survival guide

  December 20, 2024 · 30 min

  Today we are bringing you a winter survival guide, full of deceptively small tips that will make winter unmeasurably better. How do we best appreciate these cold, dark months? How do we stay stimulated, but also reject the grind? Our FT…

• Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘Writers are the memory keepers’

  December 16, 2024 · 30 min

  Elif Shafak’s new novel brings together four stories set in three different centuries: ancient Mesopotamia, 19th century London, a Yazidi village in 2014, and the present day. It connects them through the epic of Gilgamesh, and a single…

• Books books books! Our top picks from 2024

  December 13, 2024 · 26 min

  The FT’s books of the year special is out, and today, our literary editor Fred Studemann and outgoing deputy books editor Laura Battle join us one last time to talk about their top picks of 2024. This year has seen some huge releases from…

• The oldest cuisine in the world

  December 9, 2024 · 28 min

  Have you ever wondered about the oldest recipes in history? They were discovered on four clay tablets from about 1,700 BCE at the time of the Assyrian Empire. Did you know that about 5 million Assyrians still live around the world today?…

• Our massive holiday gift guide, and tips for a less stressful Christmas

  December 6, 2024 · 34 min

  December is here, and we’re here to help you sort your holiday shopping. Need to make a last-minute gift feel thoughtful? Searching for something for your dad? Want to give a cheap gift a glow-up? Hoping to also actually enjoy December?…

• Filmmaker Richard Linklater on Hit Man and whether people can change

  December 2, 2024 · 21 min

  Filmmaker Richard Linklater’s movies span blockbusters, such as School of Rock, cerebral indie classics like Boyhood, and a hard-to-define The Before Trilogy. His most recent film, Hit Man, is a thriller, but it picks up on many themes…