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FT Weekend

Turn off your email alerts and settle into the weekend. We explore today's culture, big ideas, nuanced questions and what it means to live a good life. Join our host Lilah Raptopoulos every Saturday f... Read more

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Liana Finck, New Yorker cartoonist, on finding confidence and creativity in quarantine

Liana Finck, New Yorker cartoonist, on finding confidence and creativity in quarantine

This week, Lilah talks to Liana Finck, a graphic novelist and New Yorker cartoonist with a fan base on Instagram that’s ... Read more

29 May 2020

47mins

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Noah Baumbach on his film Marriage Story. Plus: everything you need to know before the Oscars

Noah Baumbach on his film Marriage Story. Plus: everything you need to know before the Oscars

We're back with a brand new season! In our pre-Oscars special, Gris talks to Noah Baumbach, director of the nominated fi... Read more

6 Feb 2020

58mins

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Novelist Ben Lerner on angry white men and the origins of Trump

Novelist Ben Lerner on angry white men and the origins of Trump

Ben Lerner is one of the most acclaimed American writers working today. Gris meets him to discuss good parenting, male r... Read more

21 Nov 2019

49mins

Ranked #4

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Unpacking the internet with Jia Tolentino

Unpacking the internet with Jia Tolentino

As The New Yorker magazine's go-to millennial, Jia Tolentino writes cultural criticism about the internet and how it aff... Read more

10 Sep 2019

46mins

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Best films of 2017. Plus: Hayley Atwell on Weinstein culture

Best films of 2017. Plus: Hayley Atwell on Weinstein culture

In our season finale we reveal our favourite films of the year, from The Florida Project to Call Me By Your Name. And as... Read more

25 Nov 2017

52mins

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Slave Play author Jeremy O Harris on the future of theatre

Slave Play author Jeremy O Harris on the future of theatre

This week, Gris talks to the brilliant 30-year-old playwright Jeremy O Harris about his Broadway sensation Slave Play an... Read more

15 May 2020

59mins

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Simon Schama on Civilisations. Plus: artist Eddie Peake

Simon Schama on Civilisations. Plus: artist Eddie Peake

Art historian Simon Schama on why he's updating Kenneth Clark's landmark TV series from 1969 and what 'civilisation' mea... Read more

24 Feb 2018

44mins

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Bonus: Esther Perel's advice for coping in a pandemic

Bonus: Esther Perel's advice for coping in a pandemic

This week, we turn to Esther Perel, psychotherapist and host of the hit podcast Where Should We Begin?, to help put our ... Read more

22 Apr 2020

38mins

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Chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese: "we're living in a post-authentic world"

Chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese: "we're living in a post-authentic world"

Award-winning chef Danny Bowien has never fully fit in. Adopted from Korea, Bowien was raised by a white, Christian fami... Read more

24 Oct 2019

41mins

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How is culture adapting to quarantine? Plus: our film critic on what to watch now

How is culture adapting to quarantine? Plus: our film critic on what to watch now

This week, we discuss the future of movies with FT film critic Danny Leigh. Will we see a wave of apocalypse dramas once... Read more

1 May 2020

48mins

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Genius versus mediocrity. Plus: The Wire's Clarke Peters

Genius versus mediocrity. Plus: The Wire's Clarke Peters

We're back! First up: we talk to Lucian Msamati, star of the National Theatre's Amadeus, and journalist Peter Aspden abo... Read more

10 Feb 2018

37mins

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Kristen Roupenian on 'Cat Person', dating and overnight success. Plus: we discuss consent

Kristen Roupenian on 'Cat Person', dating and overnight success. Plus: we discuss consent

When Kristen Roupenian's short story 'Cat Person' was published in December 2017, it became a viral sensation — and a fo... Read more

16 Mar 2019

44mins

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Love, lust and workplace burnout: Three Women’s Lisa Taddeo

Love, lust and workplace burnout: Three Women’s Lisa Taddeo

Three Women is one of the most talked-about books of the summer: a true story of female desire that took eight years to ... Read more

12 Jul 2019

48mins

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Jon Ronson on free porn, anxiety and empathy

Jon Ronson on free porn, anxiety and empathy

Gris meets the author and podcaster Jon Ronson (The Butterfly Effect, The Psychopath Test, So You've Been Publicly Shame... Read more

17 May 2019

34mins

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Ways of Seeing: Sheila Heti on Pierre Bonnard

Ways of Seeing: Sheila Heti on Pierre Bonnard

This week, Gris meets the Canadian writer Sheila Heti at Tate Modern's Pierre Bonnard retrospective to discuss the unlik... Read more

19 Apr 2019

33mins

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Chef Samin Nosrat on home cooking in trying times

Chef Samin Nosrat on home cooking in trying times

We can't stop thinking about food: how to cook it, where to buy it, how many meals are too many meals and why everyone's... Read more

16 Apr 2020

58mins

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Peter Carey on Australia's original sin. Plus: a new short story by JM Coetzee

Peter Carey on Australia's original sin. Plus: a new short story by JM Coetzee

This week: two titans of literature with four Booker Prizes between them. First up, Peter Carey on tackling the relation... Read more

17 Mar 2018

26mins

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A new short story by Ali Smith, read by Olivia Williams

A new short story by Ali Smith, read by Olivia Williams

In a festive special episode, the actor Olivia Williams reads 'I Heard it on Classic FN', a new short story by Ali Smith... Read more

29 Dec 2017

28mins

Ranked #19

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Talking fame, trauma and fiction with Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Talking fame, trauma and fiction with Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Gris and Lilah return with a revamped show: welcome to Culture Call! Lilah visits New York Times feature writer Taffy Br... Read more

13 Aug 2019

46mins

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Richard E Grant, Oscar nominee. Plus: is Netflix good for TV?

Richard E Grant, Oscar nominee. Plus: is Netflix good for TV?

The star of Withnail and I discusses his new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, actors, acting and why sex is key to gettin... Read more

2 Feb 2019

42mins

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