http://news.ft.com/home/uk FT.com Podcast en © Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2006. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:43:40 GMT support@ft.com Globalisation remains the great economic story of our era. It is also the great political story. The big question remains how likely is a reversal of our era's move towards a more integrated global economy. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_sep15_2006.mp3 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:36:53 GMT Middlescents are like adolescents, only 30 years older. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_may14_2006.mp3 Thu, 25 May 2006 09:26:11 GMT Earlier this month 100 senior managers from a well-known company boarded planes and flew to the US. Their mission: to laugh. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_may21_2006.mp3 Wed, 24 May 2006 16:19:46 GMT If I think of all the really successful people I know, they are not all big risk-takers. Good at what they do, they are variously ambitious, determined, ruthless and lucky. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_apr09_2006.mp3 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:59:45 GMT When it comes to a tricky relationship between boss and subordinate there is none worse than that between the domestic cleaner and their employer. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_apr02_2006.mp3 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:59:44 GMT There is a generalisation about women that I strongly believe: we talk less nonsense than men, at least in public. Alas, when the theme is diversity this seems not to be the case. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_mar30_2006.mp3 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:40:12 GMT Rob Minto, interactive editor of FT.com, talks to Andrew Clark about the upcoming Glyndebourne Festival; Ludovic Hunter-Tilney gives his verdict on The Streets third album; Rosie Blau gives her book recommenations; and dance critic Clement Crisp has the Bolshoi Ballet in Manchester in his sights. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/FT_artscast_apr06_2006.mp3 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:15:01 GMT Rob Minto, interactive editor of FT.com, talks to the FT's film critic Nigel Andrews about The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada as well as other films on release; and dance critic Clement Crisp is excited about the cast in Royal Opera House's Romeo and Juliette, as well as the high camp of the Trocadero ballet of Monte Carlo. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/FT_artscast_mar31_2006.mp3 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:13:24 GMT What is an office spouse? Lucy explains the rules. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_mar23_2006.mp3 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:57:30 GMT Rob Minto, interactive editor of FT.com, talks to arts editor Jan Dalley about the FT's pick of theatre, film, visual arts and music; Rosie Blau recommends a true tale of female survival as her book for this weekend; and finally, dance critic Clement Crisp gives his always-entertaining thoughts on two very different ballets. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/FT_artscast_mar23_2006.mp3 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:18:46 GMT Economics editor Chris Giles discusses some of the themes and details of Gordon Brown's 10th Budget. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/CG_UKBudget_mar22_2006.mp3 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:29:52 GMT Economics Editor Chris Giles discusses what to expect in Gordon Brown's 10th Budget http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/CG_UKBudgetPreview_mar21_2006.mp3 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:47:55 GMT Some managers are starting to use sticks with pride once again. Scariness is "in". After years in the corporate wilderness, it is back in fashion. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_mar17_2006.mp3 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:33:38 GMT The world is indeed going through a huge supply shock. But for the high-income countries, the best advice is: relax. The internal redistribution of income caused by trade is likely to be modest. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_asia_mar17_2006.mp3 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:33:38 GMT Japan is not recovering because it has a brand new economy: what has been achieved in recent years is a partial clean-up of the legacy of the bubble years. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_japan_mar17_2006.mp3 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:33:40 GMT The time has come for Europeans to ask themselves the unthinkable: can their vaunted social model endure? http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_europe_mar17_2006.mp3 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:33:39 GMT The FT's arts critics - a cultural guide to the weekend and ahead. This week Andrew Clark gives his verdict on opera, Clement Crisp shares his luminous thoughts on the Bolshoi Ballet, and Rosie Blau has her book recommendations. Plus, our critical reviews of film, pop, theatre and the must-see galleries. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/FT_artscast_mar17_2006.mp3 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:21:26 GMT This week Lucy Kellaway has an important announcement to make: she is becoming an agony aunt http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_mar09_2006.mp3 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:08:49 GMT The Financial Times film critic Nigel Andrews gives his verdict on the 78th Annual Academy Awards http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/NA_oscars_mar10_2006.mp3 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:08:50 GMT Vodafone's founding fathers used to finish results days at the Savoy Hotel, where they would enjoy full English breakfasts, discuss global domination and challenge analysts to games of liar's dice. The inheritor of this culture was Arun Sarin, a golf-playing American technocrat, who finally seems to have stamped his authority on the business. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/PF_lex_mar10_2006.mp3 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:08:49 GMT The FT's arts critics - a cultural guide to the weekend and ahead http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/FT_artscast_mar09_2006.mp3 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:27:14 GMT Given the smooth handover of power from Rod Eddington to Willie Walsh, a radical change in strategy at British Airways was hardly on the cards. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/TC_lex_mar09_2006.mp3 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:46:37 GMT Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So, too, is the value of a company. According to VNU's management and the consortium of six private equity houses trying to buy the Dutch business information group, it is worth Euro28.75 per share. Rebel shareholders think it is worth more. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/TC_lex_mar08_2006.mp3 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:59:28 GMT The best form of defence is attack. Aegis, the media-buying and market research group has been the subject of considerable bid speculation over the last 12 months. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/TC_lex_mar07_2006.mp3 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:07:07 GMT Tracy Corrigan, head of Lex: HSBC likes to make it sound as if banking is full of thrills. While HSBC reported record 2005 profits and an encouraging short-term outlook, its group chairman also warned investors that it could all go wrong: "unprecedented" trade imbalances, demographic change and protectionism are among the threats facing the global financial markets. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/TC_lex_mar06_2006.mp3 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:33:22 GMT In most companies changing course is hard; at big, successful universities it seems impossible. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_mar02_2006.mp3 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:17:24 GMT Even if the IMF's role as lender of last resort is declining, it can still guide decision-making, particularly in strengthening global stability. To do so, it must becomes a tough, independent organisation. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_feb23.mp3 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:23:28 GMT Avoiding things is a natural way of setting priorities http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_feb21.mp3 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:46:59 GMT Since India economic growth is now forecast at 8.1% this fiscal year to March 31 confidence is running high http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_feb21.mp3 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:47:10 GMT What are the proper limits of free expression? Should the law set the limits on free speech? How should people live alongside those whose beliefs they may abhor? http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_feb15_2006.mp3 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:57:10 GMT If you can't describe your job in one sentence, you are either a nuclear physicist or your job shouldn't exist. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_feb10_2006.mp3 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:01 GMT China, India, trade, climate change, energy and security, Google, global imbalances, Iran's nuclear programme. What do all these topics have in common? One answer is that they were all discussed at Davos. But a deeper one is that they all come under the rubric of "Opportunities and threats of globalisation". http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_feb06_2006.mp3 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:27:27 GMT In exams, the belief that one has done brilliantly is neither necessary nor a sufficient condition for actually doing so. In organisations, such a belief is vital for climbing the greasy pole. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_jan31_2006.mp3 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:12:15 GMT What political fate is likely to befall Iraq, Russia, Lebanon, Ukraine, Chile, Tanzania or any of the countries that have moved towards democracy in recent decades. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_Col_Jan25_2006.mp3 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:06:33 GMT The popular idea is that work experience teaches teenagers something valuable about working life. It actually teaches them about photocopying and making tea. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_Col_Jan25_2006.mp3 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:06:47 GMT Why are some countries rich and many others so poor? Why has it proved so difficult for those mired in poverty to catch up with the prosperous? These are the most important questions in economics. Few have addressed them with more insight than William Lewis, founding director of the McKinsey Global Institute. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_jan17_2006.mp3 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:40:13 GMT The use of military power is more expensive than many hoped. Such decisions require a decent analysis of the costs and consequences. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_Col_jan13_2006.mp3 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:38:07 GMT The day the wheels came off http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_Col_Jan10_2006.mp3 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:29:44 GMT As the holiday season is upon us, Lucy would like to gift you with a stocking full of prizes awarded for stupidity and bad taste in business. And if you noticed nothing amiss with the previous sentence, then you should be banned from going any further. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_dec20_2005.mp3 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:22:09 GMT Let us give credit where credit is due: the forecasters proved right http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/MW_dec21_2005.mp3 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:29:15 GMT Dear Mrs Cameron: I know you plan to be a good political wife, but you will find there are limits to your enthusiasm. Soon you will have three small children - and little appetite for evenings out. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_dec13_2005.mp3 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:00:56 GMT What could you live without in your professional life? Bragging chief executives' autobiographies? Could you do without BlackBerries? Consultants? Office politics? http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_dec06_2005.mp3 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:30:19 GMT With one line in his speech, the chancellor conceded what everyone else has known for some time: 2005 has been "the toughest and most challenging year for the economy" http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/CG_PBR_dec05_2005.mp3 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:58:48 GMT I was called by a publisher and asked if I would like to write a book that would thunder against business jargon. Not only is there no call for yet another book, my views on business jargon can be expressed at rather less than book length. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_nov29_2005.mp3 Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:51:41 GMT Until you have mastered the basics of the new chief's personality and have some notion of what sort of things he likes, it is better to keep the lip firmly zipped. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_nov23_2005.mp3 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:05:29 GMT FT economics editor Chris Giles explains why Gordon Brown's ninth pre-Budget report will be one of his most difficult. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/chrisgilesedit2.mp3 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:30:32 GMT What makes interruptions a tricky subject is that they are not just a terrific waste of time - they are also essential. Interruptions can make us feel wanted and give variety to work. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_nov16.mp3 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:16:04 GMT As I started to research this column on stress I started feeling bad again.Stress, I discover, is a bit like yawning. When others yawn, I do too. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_nov06.mp3 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:16:04 GMT Columnists should not attack other columnists but I am going to ignore this fine principle and offer you a line-by-line deconstruction of a column called "Winning" by Jack and Suzy Welch. The sentiment is crashingly banal. http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_oct21.mp3 Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:23:14 GMT On a perfectly normal day at Harvard a couple of weeks ago, a dozen future leaders of the world sat in a circle and cried: honk! honk! honk! http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/LK_sep25.mp3 Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:23:14 GMT