App Store

Google Play

DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst 

Financial Times

Each week, we focus on one of the major international stories making headlines, drawing upon the Financial Times's team of foreign correspondents and analysts to make sense of world events. Presented by Gideon Rachman and produced by Hannah Murphy.

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


FT World Weekly

In this week's pod: Labour unrest in China, the start of the World Cup in South Africa and Angela Merkel's decreasing popularity in Germany.Guest in the studio is Richard McGregor and from Berlin Quentin Peel is interviewed by Fiona Symon.Presented by Gideon Rachman with co-presenter Helen WarrellProduced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour unrest in China, the World Cup and Angela Merkel

In this week's podcast: BP's future - is the worst over? Israel looks to ease the Gaza blockade; and the violence in Kyrgyzstan.In the studio this week are Ed Crooks, energy editor, and Neil Buckley, eastern Europe editor. Tobias Buck reports from Jerusalem.Presented by Gideon Rachman with co-presenter Helen WarrellProduced by Rob Minto

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BP's future, the Gaza blockade, and unrest in Kyrgyzstan

It was anything but straightforward. Our team of experts dissect George Osborne's complex first Budget in a special podcast. With Chris Giles, Nick Timmins and Alison Smith, hosted by Robert Shrimsley.

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Special Edition: the UK's unavoidable Budget

In this week's podcast we look at the appointment of Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard. We ask, what went wrong with Kevin Rudd's leadership and what can we expect from his successor?Also up for discussion is the prompt sacking of US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. We ask, what does this action reveal about the Obama administration?And finally we look forward to the upcoming G20 meeting in Toronto this weekend. Presented by Tom O'Sullivan with Helen Warrell, the FT's Asia page editor, Peter Smith, the FT's Australian and Pacific correspondent, Richard McGregor the FT's deputy news editor and down the line Dan Dombey the FT's US diplomatic correspondent.Produced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gillard, McChrystal and the G20

In this week’s podcast: We look at how General Stanley McChrystal’s replacement General David Petraeus is getting on in his first week as head of UN and Nato forces in Afghanistan. We hear from the FT’s Beijing correspondent Kathrin Hille about Google’s final attempts to rescue its presence in China; and finally we turn our attention to the alleged Russian spies arrested in the US earlier this weekPresented by David Gardner, the FT's international affairs editor, with Helen Warrell, Asia page editor, Neil Buckley, Eastern Europe editor and James Blitz, defence and diplomatic editor.Produced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Petraeus, Google and Russian spies

In this week's podcast: Gideon Rachman returns from his travels and gives us his reflections on South Africa, and his feelings about the impact of the World Cup on the country. We also look at the first conviction at Guantanamo Bay under the Obama administration and finally we turn our attention to Europe and the trouble that politicians in both France and Italy find themselves in as they approach their summer break.Fiona Symon asks Ben Hall, the FT's Paris correspondent, how Sarkozy is coping in the light of the recent scandal concerning France's richest woman Liliane Bettencourt and Helen Warrell talks to FT correspondent, Anna Fifield from Guatanamo about the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard.Presented by Gideon Rachman, with Helen Warrell and Hugh Williamson.Produced LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Europe, South Africa and Guantanamo Bay

In this week's podcast: We turn our attention to the violence which erupted at the weekend in Somalia; we look at what impact the US imposed sanctions on Iran are having; we discuss why American business seems to have gone sour on China.In the studio: Richard McGregor, David Blair and William WallisFrom Dubai: Simeon Kerr Presented by Gideon RachmanProduced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Somalia, Iran sanctions, China-US

In this week's podcast: David Cameron faces trying questions on his first visit to America as UK PM, about the Lockerbie bomber Mr Megrahi and the possible involvement of BP in the lobbying for his release; Chilcot inquiry update following the former director-general of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller's statement on Monday that Blair ignored her advice about going to war with Iraq; aid distribution and corruption in Afghanistan; Iran and its nuclear programme, which may not be as advanced as first thought.Presented by Gideon Rachman with guests in the studio James Blitz, the FT's defence and diplomatic editor and David Blair, the FT's Middle East and Africa news editor. Helen Warrell reports on Afghan aid.Produced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cameron, Afghan aid and Iran's nuclear programme

In this week's podcast: We ask whether Cameron's trip to India to build business and commerce relationships has been a success; we ask whether Paul Kagame is likely to hold on to his role as president in the upcoming elections in Rwanda; we ask what the sentencing of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch means for the people of Cambodia; we look at the disappearing marshlands of Louisiana.Presented by Tom O'Sullivan with David Blair in the studio.Down the line: James Lamont in New Delhi, Harvey Morris in New Orleans.Khmer Rouge report: Helen WarrellProduced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cameron, Rwanda, Cambodia and the marshlands of Louisiana

In this week’s podcast: We look at Obama’s Oval Office address marking the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and to his White House dinner to mark the beginning of a new round of Middle East talks. We hear from the FT’s west Africa correspondent about the preparations for the presidential elections in the Niger Delta and we look at the brutal violence unleashed in Mexico by the country’s war on drugs.Presented by Gideon Rachman with the FT's international affairs editor David Gardner, Middle East and Africa news editor, David Blair and Latin America editor John Paul Rathbone.Down the line: Tom O'Sullivan interviews the FT's west Africa correspondent Tom Burgis in Bayelsa.Produced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Iraq, the Middle East, Nigeria and Mexico

In this week’s podcast: the essential relationship between the US and the UK; Spain on the edge of a sovereign debt crisis; stalemate in Libya - what next for the Arab spring; and, we look to the future for Japan’s energy policy post Fukushima.Presented by Shawn Donnan with Sarah Neville, David Gardner and Abeer Allah in the studio in London, Peter Spiegel in Brussels, Victor Mallet in Madrid and Mure Dickie in Hong Kong.Produced by LJ Filotrani

 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US/UK relations, Spanish unrest, the Arab spring and Japan's nuclear future

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Other podcasts you might like ...