Life and Art from FT Weekend

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Life and Art from FT Weekend episodes

April 19, 2019 Ways of Seeing: Sheila Heti on Pierre Bonnard
This week, Gris meets the Canadian writer Sheila Heti at Tate Modern's Pierre Bonnard retrospective to discuss the unlikely parallels between their work, from the depiction of everyday life to the role of memory.

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34 min
March 30, 2019 Comedian Nish Kumar, Brexit and the best goodbyes
Gris talks to The Mash Report host Nish Kumar about comedy, the role of the political satirist and the painfully endless Brexit goodbye. And Gris says her own goodbye to Al, who is leaving the podcast to embark on a new career in ASMR. As he does, Al and Gris look back on some of their favourite farewells in film and fiction.

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36 min
March 16, 2019 Kristen Roupenian on 'Cat Person', dating and overnight success. Plus: we discuss consent
When Kristen Roupenian's short story 'Cat Person' was published in December 2017, it became a viral sensation — and a focal point for conversations in the early days of #MeToo. How does she look back on it now? And what does her new collection You Know You Want This have to say about relationships, horror and awkward sex? Later, Gris and Al head to the pub for a frank discussion about consent.

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45 min
March 02, 2019 Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind and It's Not About the Burqa
Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind and It's Not About the Burqa

The actor talks to Al about his debut as a film director, directing himself and Hollywood after Harvey Weinstein.

Later, Salma Haidrani joins Gris and Al to discuss her writing in It's Not About the Burqa, a new collection of essays by Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race.
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35 min
February 16, 2019 Tracey Emin, the Oscars and Frieze in LA
History catches up with Tracey Emin: the artist on love, loss and #MeToo. And it's the Academy Awards...who should win, who should not and who cares anyway? Plus: Frieze LA — local artist Martine Syms drives around Los Angeles, exploring the relationship between cars, culture and life through the windscreen.
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44 min
February 02, 2019 Richard E Grant, Oscar nominee. Plus: is Netflix good for TV?
The star of Withnail and I discusses his new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, actors, acting and why sex is key to getting into character.
And we debate the startling growth of Netflix - is it remotely healthy?
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43 min
December 21, 2018 Fiction special: Alexander Chee reads The Rosary
Our coda for 2018 is something rather different: the American writer reads a meditative personal essay from his acclaimed new collection, How To Write an Autobiographical Novel.
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54 min
December 15, 2018 Best books of 2018. Plus: Sally Rooney on sex, class and the internet
In our penultimate episode of the series, we discuss the year's best novels and non-fiction works — as well as some old favourites — with Arifa Akbar, literary critic and a judge of the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, and Alice Fishburn, editor of FT Weekend magazine. Later, Gris chats to Sally Rooney about her award-winning novel Normal People.
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51 min
December 01, 2018 Christmas Food & Drink Special with Tim Hayward, Polly Russell and Chef Cyrus Todiwala
Is Christmas best for six-year-olds? And was it better in the olden days? We rediscover the joy of festive excess.

The Indian British chef discusses the future of food, his own unique style of cooking and why now is the best moment in history to be an aspiring chef.
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49 min
November 17, 2018 How to make it as a rapper in 2018. Plus: Thomas Page McBee, the first trans man to box at Madison Square Gardens
Hip-hop is now the dominant genre in pop. But how do artists get big? We ask the London beat maker and producer Mutual Soundz and the FT's pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney. Plus: a trans writer on 'toxic masculinity' and the beauty of being a man.
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45 min

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Life and Art from FT Weekend is the twice-weekly culture podcast of the Financial Times. On Monday, we talk about life, and how to live a good one in one-on-one conversations. On Friday, we talk about…