FT Weekend: The stories we tell, with Elif Shafak

FT Weekend: The stories we tell, with Elif Sh...

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A complicated World Cup for Iran’s diaspora

Labour’s Andy Burnham has won the crucial Makerfield by-election in the UK, a resurgence in the dollar is reversing bets on the currencies of big emerging markets and major commodity producers, insurers are trying to define “war” as a type of risk, and the Bank of England held in ...  عرض المزيد

Federal Reserve gears up for change

The Federal Reserve has dropped its bias towards lowering rates in the central bank’s first meeting chaired by Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump said the US would release frozen Iranian funds, and UK inflation held unexpectedly steady last month. Plus, Chinese tech giant Huawei ...  عرض المزيد

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The stories we tell, with Elif Shafak
Life and Art from FT Weekend

This week we bring you one of the most popular episodes from our archive: a conversation with Elif Shafak, the most widely read woman novelist in Turkey. She and Lilah discuss national identity, the generational pain of conflict, and writing in countries that don't have freedom o ...  عرض المزيد

Poet Maria Stepanova. Plus: Inside the FT newsroom
Life and Art from FT Weekend

This week, guest host Marc Filippino discusses the FT's war coverage in Ukraine with our Editor, Roula Khalaf. How does a news organisation make decisions during wartime? Then Marc talks with Maria Stepanova, author of In Memory of Memory, which was short-listed for the Booker Pr ...  عرض المزيد

The international mystery of the 'Hum'
Life and Art from FT Weekend

Russia has invaded Ukraine. We begin this episode with a visit from FT Weekend editor Alec Russell, a week after he joined us to discuss his years covering the fall of communism in eastern Europe. How can we make sense of this? Then, we go searching for the Hum, a mysterious nois ...  عرض المزيد

Morality in the Twitter era. Plus: China’s language revolution
Life and Art from FT Weekend

This weekend, we think about morality in the age of social media. According to writer Dan Brooks, we're great at pointing out where good is missing, but we’ve forgotten how to be good people. Then, Yale professor Jing Tsu tells us the story of how China standardised its complex l ...  عرض المزيد