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    Lilah Raptopoulos is the host of FT Weekend's flagship life & arts podcast, FT Weekend, and a US culture writer for the Financial Times. She is based in New York.

    Lilah was previously the co-host of Culture Call, the FT's US head of audience engagement and community editor. Before joining the FT, she did community journalism and culture writing for The Guardian. She has a masters in journalism for digital innovation from NYU.

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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      FT Weekend podcast27 min listen
      The art of the celebrity interview, with Sam Fragoso

      Lilah interviews Sam Fragoso, host of Talk Easy, and producer Lulu Smyth takes on a challenge from one of our listeners to make sense of the UK citizenship test

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
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      Best of: Chef Mashama Bailey on reclaiming African-American food

      The award-winning chef explains her creative process

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
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      Surviving US healthcare. Plus: Prince Harry’s 'Spare'

      Claire Bushey explores the cost of US healthcare after her treatment for breast cancer. Then, Henry Mance reviews Prince Harry’s autobiography

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
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      Tamagotchis and reality TV: 2023 cultural predictions

      Lilah and FT Magazine editor Matt Vella discuss listeners’ forecasts for next year. Then, FT Weekend editors share their own

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      FT SeriesFestive food and drink special 2022
      How Americans ruined tequila — and the true believers saving it

      Marketed as a wild party drink for too long, the Mexican agave spirit is finally being taken seriously

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
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      Travel mini-series: the FT’s travel editor talks tourism

      In our third bonus episode, Tom Robbins gives an honest account of what’s happening in the industry right now

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
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      Chef Eric Ripert’s secret to outlasting trends

      Chef Eric Ripert has been leading one of the best restaurants in the world, Le Bernardin, for most of its 50-year history. He tells us how it has kept relevant. Plus, we talk comedy

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      Travel mini-series: Jessica Nabongo visits every country

      In our second bonus episode on travel, writer and photographer Jessica Nabongo shares her experiences visiting every country in the world

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
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      Triangle of Sadness with director Ruben Östlund

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      The Woman King, with producer Cathy Schulman

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    • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
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      Jane Austen, forever. Plus: trans inclusion in sports

      New adaptations of Austen novels keep coming. Plus, we look at how elite sports approach trans inclusion

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      As debate over ‘cancel culture’ rages, the New York comedy scene grapples with the line between provocation and offence

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      In the third of a four-week summer mini-series, FT wine columnist Jancis Robinson explores today’s trends: from natural to regenerative and the effects of climate change

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      Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

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