• January 17 2025
  60 min listen

  Our final episode: thank you

  For our last ever episode, Lilah answers listener questions with our top FT critics, columnists and experts about music, cooking, careers and more

  
• December 23 2024
  35 min listen

  Cultural predictions for 2025: the year we accept the chaos

  We asked listeners what they think will happen next year in culture. Matt Vella joins Lilah to talk through the predictions

  
• December 20 2024
  30 min listen

  The perfect winter survival guide

  Our winter survival guide is here. Griselda Murray Brown and Cordelia Jenkins talk about daily ways to make the coldest months a little brighter

  
• December 16 2024
  30 min listen

  Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘Writers are the memory keepers’

  Writer Elif Shafak discusses her new novel, There are Rivers in the Sky, and why oral traditions still matter

  
• December 13 2024
  26 min listen

  Books books books! Our top picks from 2024

  Our favourite literary duo Fred Studemann and Laura Battle join us for one last big books of the year audio round-up

  
• December 9 2024
  28 min listen

  The oldest cuisine in the world

  In a new cookbook, Assyrian recipes are collected that have been passed down orally for centuries. Lilah speak to the mother and son authors

  
• December 6 2024
  34 min listen

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

  Ideas for easy Christmas gifts, and tips on how to actually enjoy December, with FT Magazine’s Harriet Fitch Little and HTSI’s Louis Wise

  
• December 2 2024
  21 min listen

  Filmmaker Richard Linklater on Hit Man and whether people can change

  The director of ‘Boyhood’ and, most recently, ‘Hit Man’ reflects on the similarities in his movies

  
• November 25 2024
  26 min listen

  How Eli Zabar made America more gourmet

  we spend the episode at Eli Zabar’s renowned grocery market on the Upper East Side of Manhattan

  
• November 22 2024
  29 min listen

  Culture chat: ‘Wicked’ hits the high notes

  The much-anticipated film adaptation of the Broadway musical may be this year’s biggest cinematic risk. Does it live up to the hype?

  
• November 18 2024
  23 min listen

  Best of: why men’s fashion is skimpier and more queer

  This summer, men bared way more skin – on the runway and on the street. The FT’s Robert Armstrong and Eric Platt join Lilah to talk about what it means

  
• November 15 2024
  29 min listen

  Culture chat: ‘Anora’, the unlikely film leading the Oscar race

  Director Sean Baker’s latest movie about a sex worker in Brooklyn gets the FT treatment from film critic Danny Leigh and India Ross

  
• November 11 2024
  21 min listen

  Jancis Robinson on how to start collecting wine

  Our wine critic — esteemed author and Master of Wine Jancis Robinson — walks us through having wine in your home

  
• November 8 2024
  23 min listen

  Our critics’ best advice for how to discover new music

  FT music critics Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and Arwa Haider discuss how to break out of the algorithm and define your own taste

  
• November 4 2024
  21 min listen

  What is the future of photography?

  US art critic Ariella Budick joins us for a conversation about the medium

  
• November 1 2024
  31 min listen

  Culture Chat: the bonkbuster world of ‘Rivals’

  We discuss ‘Rivals’, the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s romance novel. Lilah is joined by Robert Shrimsley and Harriet Fitch Little

  
• October 28 2024
  27 min listen

  Historian Simon Schama wants to make truth sexy again

  Ahead of the US presidential election, historian, documentary host and political commentator Simon Schama joins Lilah to discuss the collapse of truth

  
• October 25 2024
  30 min listen

  Halloween Chat: ‘Beetlejuice’ and the lost art of soft horror

  For our Halloween episode, we discuss what the original movie did in 1988 that’s missing in film now. Lilah is joined by Stephen Bush and Topher Forhecz

  
• October 21 2024
  27 min listen

  Chef Victoria Blamey is giving the tasting menu new life

  The executive chef of New York’s Blanca, talks candidly about what it takes to create a tasting menu that goes beyond gastronomic cliches

  
• October 18 2024
  27 min listen

  Culture Chat: The FT takes on ‘Industry’ season 3

  Lilah is joined by Henry Mance and Alice Ross to talk about the most recent season of the HBO finance drama

  
• October 14 2024
  21 min listen

  Fashion loves Ozempic. Should we talk about it?

  Editor of HTSI Jo Ellison talks about how weight-loss drugs are upending our beauty standards again

  
• October 11 2024
  29 min listen

  Culture Chat: why is everyone so mad at Katy Perry?

  Katy Perry’s latest album ‘143’ has been panned by critics and pop fans alike. Why does everyone feel so let down?

  
• October 7 2024
  20 min listen

  In the age of AI, what counts as art?

  Our innovation editor John Thornhill on seeing the new film ‘Eno’, which presents the musician’s life in a new sequence each time the movie is shown

  
• October 4 2024
  35 min listen

  Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a mess worth seeing

  Last week saw the release of the director’s 40-year passion project. Film critics Danny Leigh and Nicolas Rapold join to discuss

  
• September 30 2024
  22 min listen

  ‘My Old Ass’ director Megan Park on advice to our younger selves

  Writer-director Megan Park discusses her new film and why you can’t really give advice to your younger self