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  • Wednesday, 25 March, 2020
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    The Rachman Review: Life in Europe’s coronavirus hotspots

    Foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman discusses how the coronavirus epidemic has been handled in Italy and Spain

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    11 min listen
    Republican $1tn plan, Paul Tucker on damage limits

    The FT News Briefing is a rundown of the global business stories you need to know fo…

  • Wednesday, 18 March, 2020
    8 min listen
    Rana Foroohar on the trillion dollar fightback, Biden sweep

    The FT News Briefing is a rundown of the global business stories you need to know fo…

  • Tuesday, 17 March, 2020
    9 min listen
    World on lockdown, markets melt, hospitals suffer

    The FT News Briefing is a rundown of the global business stories you need to know fo…

  • Monday, 16 March, 2020
    8 min listen
    Introducing the FT News Briefing: Fed cuts to zero, airport pinch, hand sanitiser sale

    Introducing the FT News Briefing.

  • Wednesday, 11 March, 2020
    16 min listen
    Persecution of China’s Uighur Muslims exposed

    List shows so-called ‘offences’ for which over a million people have been interned

  • Monday, 9 March, 2020
    15 min listen
    Coronavirus spread heightens risk of global recession

    What can policymakers do to avert an economic crisis?

  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
    14 min listen
    Secrets of the South Pole

    As human activity encroaches, do we need to do more to protect Antarctica?

  • Monday, 2 March, 2020
    14 min listen
    Is India becoming a Big Brother state?

    Data protection bill that will allow government free rein to spy on citizens is causing concern

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  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
    17 min listen
    Is Trump abusing his power over the judiciary?

    Clemency candidates appeal to Trump through Fox News

  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    18 min listen
    Iran hardliners surf wave of despair

    Victory for Iran's hardliners in this month’s parliamentary elections has come at the cost of a despondent population suffering under the weight of renewed US sanctions

  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
    14 min listen
    The oil money flowing into sport

    Arash Massoudi discusses the impact of the oil money flowing into football and other sports

  • Monday, 17 February, 2020
    16 min listen
    Are oil and gas turning into stranded assets?

    Investors have begun to shun fossil fuels because of concerns about global warming

  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
    14 min listen
    K-pop: shaped by fans and shaken by scandals

    What does K-pop mean to South Korea’s economy?

  • Monday, 10 February, 2020
    16 min listen
    Investors put their money on Tesla

    What’s behind the recent share surge and can it be sustained?

  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2020
    20 min listen
    Coronavirus poses a big test for China’s leaders

    How well will China’s economy and political system withstand the shock?

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    18 min listen
    Holding back the floods

    Can Dutch expertise in holding back flood waters help us survive rising sea levels?

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
    15 min listen
    On the monetary front line

    The outreach sessions informing the Fed’s monetary policy

  • Sunday, 26 January, 2020
    17 min listen
    Putin seeks to secure his legacy with power shake-up

    Russia’s president looks as though he intends to stay indefinitely

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    14 min listen
    Are financial institutions waking up to climate change?

    How are financial institutions responding to climate change and should they be doing more?

  • Monday, 20 January, 2020
    10 min listen
    The multilateralist

    Former FT editor Lionel Barber on Angela Merkel’s aspirations as her final term nears its end

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
    15 min listen
    Exposing the problem with default data

    Caroline Criado-Perez on how using men as the default model affects society as a whole

  • Monday, 13 January, 2020
    10 min listen
    Mitsotakis surfs wave of optimism in Greece

    How is Greece’s prime minister tackling the county’s entrenched economic problems?

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    9 min listen
    The dwindling global telecoms dream

    Telecoms companies no longer seem close to the vision to dominate the market worldwide

  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
    13 min listen
    What happened between the US and Iran?

    Who was Qassem Soleimani and why did the US order the airstrike that killed him?

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