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Financial Times Podcasts
A guide to how podcasts cover Financial Times: the shows that reference Financial Times most, what they focus on, and where to start
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Some great Financial Times podcasts to get to know
The Financial Times is much easier to hear than to hear about. Podcast coverage rarely examines the organisation itself; instead, it appears through the journalism published under its name. The useful question, then, is which part of that output suits you.
News at briefing speed
FT News Briefing offers the quickest route in. Its polished, brisk format moves from an immediate development to its financial or political consequences. Gold hasn’t been acting like itself lately is the market-facing option; War in Iran: What comes next? shows the same explanatory machinery applied to geopolitics.
FT World Weekly takes a wider view and gives expert guests more room. In Hong Kong protests: what happens next? and What envoy's downfall tells us about UK-US relations, for example, the focus is on context, comparison and likely consequences rather than rapid headlines.
Money stories with room to breathe
For accessible business explanation, Behind the Money starts with a concrete event and pulls back to the incentives and systems around it. Try Private credit’s public reckoning or Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle.
FT Alphachat is denser and more technical. Banking culture since the crisis and Waltraud Schelkle and Ashoka Mody: Is the eurozone fixable? suit listeners comfortable with long, qualified arguments and specialist vocabulary.
The most narrative choice is Hot Money. It follows money through investigations while keeping the delivery controlled and faintly wry; Episode 5 - Nerds vs Narcos and Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn give a fair sense of its range.
Beyond the finance desk
Working It (Financial Times) brings the same measured curiosity to professional life in Why being a CEO is so lonely (and how to fix that). FT Tech Tonic is more scene-led and intimate, especially in Artificial intimacy: The AI therapist that ended a marriage.
Where to start
Choose FT News Briefing for speed, Behind the Money for clear business storytelling, or Hot Money for a sustained investigation. None is a deep examination of the Financial Times as an institution; together, they show what listening across its podcast output feels like.
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