FT Weekend: How to live forever
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
FT Weekend is a weekly Saturday show that brings the best of our weekend journalism into audio form, with everything from culture and food and the arts, to nuanced questions and big ideas. In this episode, we ask the question: what does it mean to defy death? Rock climber Leo Houlding tells us about his terrifying family holidays, scaling vertical cliff-faces with his two young kids. We also explore radical life extension with science writer Anjana Ahuja. How close are we scientifically to extending the human lifespan to 150 or 200? What are the implications when we get there? And do we really want to live forever? PLUS: inside the luxury life extension market, with How to Spend it writer Tiffanie Darke.
Links from the episode:
— Leo Houlding’s extreme family holiday in Wyoming’s wild west: https://www.ft.com/content/0bcba30a-bb46-4bc1-8a7d-9166dc43a5e8
— Anjana Ahuja on whether we can live forever: https://www.ft.com/content/60d9271c-ae0a-4d44-8b11-956cd2e484a9
— Inside the life extension market, with Tiffanie Darke: https://www.ft.com/content/867e647b-c0e8-4aeb-9777-fedff7ec3476
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| 0:00.0 | For over 40 years, Equinoor has been an energy partner to the UK. |
| 0:04.1 | During that time, we've played our part in the switch from coal to gas, |
| 0:07.1 | and we're working hard to help the UK's energy transition. |
| 0:10.1 | We may not have all the answers yet, but we're determined to find them. |
| 0:13.5 | Equinor, an energy company, searching for better. |
| 0:16.9 | 99.6% of Equinor's energy output is oil and gas. |
| 0:20.5 | Our investment in renewables and low- carbon solutions has increased from 4% in 2020 to 27% in 2024. Find out more at equanor.com. UK. |
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| 0:47.9 | Reclaim power over your money. Learn more at ledger.com. Hi, briefing listeners. Lila Raptopoulos here. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm the host of our Life and Arts podcast, FT Weekend. |
| 0:58.0 | You'll be seeing our show here in your feed every Saturday from now on. |
| 1:01.0 | It's a show that brings the best of our weekend journalism into audio form, |
| 1:05.0 | with everything from culture and food and the arts to nuanced questions and big ideas. |
| 1:10.0 | We hope you enjoy it. Last year before |
| 1:14.0 | lockdown, I had an experience we probably all had as more and more people were falling ill with |
| 1:19.1 | this mysterious virus, a COVID scare. Mine came with a celebrity element in that the person who may |
| 1:26.1 | have transmitted the virus to me was Ira Glass, |
| 1:29.4 | the big radio star. It was that last day of going about our normal lives in March of 2020, |
| 1:35.4 | and everything was starting to shut down and my office was closing. So I packed up my laptop |
| 1:40.4 | and my keyboard and some notebooks into a few bags to head home. But my last stop was this |
| 1:45.8 | one final interview we had scheduled in the studios of This American Life. Ira and I sat together |
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