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    Lilah Raptopoulos

    Host of Life and Art podcast

    Lilah Raptopoulos is the host of Life and Art, the flagship culture podcast from 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, and led community journalism initiatives for the Financial Times. She also 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, 20 November, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen
      How to keep your plants happy as it gets cold

      FT gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox talks winter plant tending, indoors and out

    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Wrinkles, and why they terrify my generation

      Fear of ageing is nothing new. But it’s happening younger and younger

    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast22 min listen
      The Eras tour movie: can Taylor Swift get any bigger?

      The pop star’s new concert documentary, with Lilah Raptopoulos, HTSI editor Jo Ellison and US media correspondent Anna Nicolaou

    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Learning to draw, and the art of seeing better

      Slowing down, looking at what’s really there — often children are the best teachers when it comes to artistic expression

    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast24 min listen
      The best food writing is personal

      Lilah speaks to three food writers about what it takes to make food stories engaging

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast22 min listen
      How to host the perfect dinner party

      FT food and drink editor Harriet Fitch Little joins Lilah to talk all things dinner parties

    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast19 min listen
      Fuchsia Dunlop and Chinese food

      Writer Fuschia Dunlop talks about the misconceptions of Chinese food — and why she believes it is the best cuisine in the world

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast21 min listen
      How pasta became political in Italy

      Mari Giusti and Alberto Grandi discuss the origins of Italian food and why they have become a hot topic in Italian politics

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast24 min listen
      Jenny Lewis walks us through her new album

      Singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis joins the podcast to discuss her new album, 'Joy’All', and what it’s like to be a musical mentor

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      FT Magazine
      ‘Who the F is Jenny Lewis?’

      The singer-songwriter never got as famous as the pop stars she preceded, but she’s been a musical godmother for many

    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast25 min listen
      David Byrne on Talking Heads and ‘Here Lies Love’

      Musician David Byrne reflects on his concert documentary, 'Stop Making Sense', which is being re-released this month, and discusses his new Broadway show

    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      FT Magazine
      What David Byrne wants from Imelda Marcos

      The elusive artist is back in the spotlight with a disco musical about Imelda Marcos. How did he come up with that?

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast19 min listen
      Wildfires are getting worse. Here's how we fight them now

      Henry Mance describes his experience training at a firefighting camp, and the impact that climate change is having on wildfires

    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast22 min listen
      AI hits the music industry

      Ludo Hunter-Tilney talks us through the implications of AI-generated music and the reaction from the industry

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast25 min listen
      Why we should read translated novels, with author Georgi Gospodinov

      International Booker Prize winners Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel on the success of their novel 'Time Shelter'

    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen
      Food and Drink mini-series: Dan Barber says good food starts with seeds

      In our third bonus episode on food and drink, chef Dan Barber makes the case for seed-to-table farming

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast24 min listen
      Food and Drink mini-series: demystifying wine with André Mack

      In our latest bonus episode on food and drink, the sommelier and winemaker explains how wine has become less pretentious, and teaches us how to taste

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast15 min listen
      Food and Drink mini-series: Tamar Adler on cooking leftovers

      The chef and food writer teaches us how to use leftovers in your kitchen again and again

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The endless charm of the New York Antiquarian book fair

      In the Park Avenue Armory, a buzzing hall of superfans are keeping the building blocks of our culture alive

      People, seen from above, in a large hall full of bookstands
    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
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      House museums #16: Louis Armstrong

      ‘The house of the jazz musician is, in many ways, profoundly unassuming: low ceilings, creaky floors, wall-to-wall carpeting. In other ways, it is absolutely bonkers’

      Louis Armsgtong in a gold, Trump Towers-like room of mirrors
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast18 min listen
      How to have a good death

      A long-time palliative care nurse tells us what we owe the people who help us die

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
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      Her parents survived prison and separation to flee Iran. Her art tells their story

      Photographer Sheida Soleimani’s sumptuous collages reveal dark truths about exile and trauma

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast24 min listen
      FT Weekend: The secret gamblers using AI to hack horse racing

      Is horse racing at risk? FT Weekend goes to a Miami racetrack to find out

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast23 min listen
      The secret gamblers using AI to hack horse racing

      Is horse racing at risk? We go to a Miami racetrack to find out

    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Life and Art from 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

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