



FTWeekend Stage – Big Ideas for 2022

National Symphony Orchestra
Members of the NSO will play pieces composed by Carlos Simon and Valerie Coleman
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So what do we think?
In a rare public debate the FT editor, Roula Khalaf, discusses the big issues of the day with members of the editorial board, Martin Wolf, Gillian Tett, Gideon Rachman and Courtney Weaver
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Deciphering a turbulent world
CIA Director William J. Burns, in conversation with Edward Luce, FT US national editor
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Reimagining recovery so the global economy works for all
Martin Wolf, FT chief economics commentator, Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation and Gillian Tett, head of the FT US editorial board, moderated by Patrick Jenkins, FT deputy editor
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What next for the Windsors?
Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, Simon Schama, historian, and Jo Ellison, Editor of How To Spend It, on the future of the royal family as it navigates the fall out of the Prince Andrew scandal and the rift with the Sussexes in a Jubilee year
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The FTWeekend interview
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, on writing in an age of intolerance
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Henry Kissinger on the new world disorder
America’s grand strategist and author of Leadership: Six studies in world strategy in discussion with Edward Luce, FT US national editor
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The great decoupling
Is globalisation relentlessly in reverse and does this matter? Robert Lighthizer, former US trade representative, Martin Wolf, FT chief economics commentator and Rana Foroohar, FT Global Business Columnist, moderated by Robert Armstrong, US financial commentator
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How should the West handle a revanchist Russia?
Discussion with Fiona Hill, senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, Mary Sarotte, author of Not One Inch and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Alexander Rodnyansky, film producer moderated by Peter Spiegel, FT US Managing Editor. With a special poetry reading by Maria Stepanova
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National Symphony Orchestra
Members of the NSO will play pieces composed by Carlos Simon and Ludwig van Beethoven
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Literature & Arts
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Olive Kitteridge, Lucy Barton and beyond
Elizabeth Strout, author of Oh William!, in conversation with Rebecca Rose, FT Globetrotter editor on the creation of two unlikely yet much-loved heroines
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Lighting up the post-Covid city
How the arts can reanimate the world - Henry Timms, President of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Anna Deavere Smith, actress, playwright & professor with Enuma Okoro, Life & Arts columnist
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1922 - From James Joyce to Duke Ellington: the year that defined the modern age
Simon Schama, historian, in discussion with Jan Dalley, FT arts editor
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Freedom, communism, autocracy - and the fate of the post-1989 world
Lea Ypi, author of Free - Coming of Age at the End of History, and Gideon Rachman, FT columnist and author of The Age of the Strongman, with Alec Russell, FTWeekend editor
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finding humanity in a digital age
Finding humanity in a digital age Jennifer Egan, author of The Candy House and Enuma Okoro, Life & Arts columnist with Alice Fishburn, FT opinion and analysis editor on the dilemmas we all face in an increasingly virtual world
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The price of succession: money, power, social climbing and dynastic decline
Author Joseph Sassoon, and FT Global Business Columnist, Rana Foroohar, with FT literary editor Frederick Studemann, on financial families and how they thrive and fall through the ages - and now
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Rachel feinstein: fantasy & darkness
Artist Rachel Feinstein speaks with FT arts editor Jan Dalley about her artistic practice and recent projects
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Food & Drink
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FEAST FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
The FT's Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich showcase their contemporary approach to Middle Eastern cooking, with sweet and sticky pomegranate chicken, and cardamom and rose pistachio marzipan
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Daniel Humm on a plant-based future for fine dining
The chef/owner of Eleven Madison Park plots his meat-free revolution with the FT's food and drink editor, Alexander Gilmour
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Mashama Bailey and Johno Morisano
On preserving the great tradition of southern cuisine with Lilah Raptopoulos, host of the FTWeekend podcast
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Robin Lane Fox: Americans and the English garden: a special relationship?
Having written about gardens for more than 50 years, the inimitable FT columnist identifies the best English gardens for US visitors

Wine tasting with Jancis Robinson: an exploration of Oregon's finest wines
The FT wine columnist and master of wine with Elaine Chukan Brown, US executive editor for JancisRobinson.com
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Innovation in whisky
From fast-ageing whiskies to Scotch masters with Alice Lascelles, FT drinks columnist and guest presenter Dr Bill Lumsden
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Leisure & Travel – How To Spend It
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The FT style clinic - what to wear now
Whither the tie? What to wear to work? Is underwear the new outerwear? Robert Armstrong, FT financial commentator and Style critic, Khaite founder Cate Holstein and Jo Ellison, editor of How To Spend It answer all your style conundrums in this light hearted look at the way we wear now.
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Interiors: the future home and how to decorate it
David Netto, interior designer and writer, Alexandra Champalimaud, interior designer and Corey Damen Jenkins, with Christina Ohly Evans
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Wellness: microdosing, mushrooms and the million dollar boom in marijuana
Jeffrey Chen, co-founder of Radicle Science
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How to give it: GOOD CAUSES, PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND MEANINGFUL WAYS TO GIVE YOUR MONEY AWAY
Cyrill Gutsch, founder and CEO, Parley for the Oceans, Lisbet Steer, executive director, The Education Commission with Christina Ohly Evans, How To Spend It US correspondent
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Trips to the end of the earth
Ian Wick, William Finnegan, Ami Vitale, and Maria Shollenbarger, discuss the enduring allure of the world's unknown places, the fix that journeying to them delivers—and how to move through them sustainably and responsibly
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