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FT News Briefing

FT Weekend: How to live forever

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Daily News, News & Politics

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, we return to one of our favourite episodes, to 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? 


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 


Want to say hi? Email us at ftweekendpodcast@ft.com. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap. 


If you want a great discount on an FT subscription or a $1/£1/€1 month-long trial, we’ve got you: http://ft.com/weekendpodcast 


Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner, with original music by Metaphor music.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's summer, and you know what that means, it's time for a plymoth gin and tonic, so grab

0:07.9

yourself a glass and some ice.

0:10.6

Start with a pourer of plymoth gin, which is distilled using a blend of seven botanicals,

0:16.6

add in some tonic, then finish with a slice of orange.

0:22.1

Now that is the perfect gin and tonic.

0:25.8

Distilled with care and craft in England, since 1793.

0:30.4

Hello FD Weekend listeners, it's Lila, I'm a way on vacation this week, so we've reached

0:36.6

into the vault to bring you one of our favorite episodes.

0:39.9

My team and I talk about this episode a lot.

0:42.8

It's about living forever and the ethics of radical life extension.

0:47.3

It's also about defying death on this outrageous family summer vacation, which feels relevant

0:52.8

for the season.

0:54.4

One quick note, this episode first published in November, so in the beginning, when I say

0:59.5

last year, I mean March of 2020.

1:02.4

Okay, enjoy the show.

1:07.2

Did I ever tell you about the time Ira Glass almost gave me coronavirus?

1:11.6

It was the last day of going about our normal lives in March of 2020, and everything

1:16.6

was starting to shut down, and my office was closing, so I packed up my laptop and my

1:21.5

keyboard and some of my notebooks into these kind of unwieldy tote bags, and I slung

1:26.3

them over my shoulder and headed home.

1:29.5

But my last stop was this one final interview with the iconic radio host in the studios of

1:35.1

this American life.

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