FT Weekend—Predictions for 2022: Britney, flip phones and the metaverse
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🗓️ 18 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's the final FT Weekend episode of 2021, and we are marking the end of one unpredictable year and the start of another. What do you think will happen in 2022? Matt Vella, FT Weekend Magazine editor, joins Lilah to discuss listeners’ cultural predictions. A lot of them had an air of nostalgia: Will Britney make a documentary about her life? Will flip phones make a comeback? Then, our pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney teaches us the art of the perfect holiday playlist.
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Thank you for listening to the show this year. We’ll be back on January 8! What culture will you be reading, watching, listening to during the holidays? Say hi and let us know! Email us at ftweekendpodcast@ft.com. We’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap.
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Links and mentions from the episode:
–Two books by the late, great bell hooks: The Will to Change, and All About Love
–The FT’s Christmas roundup-(the complete guide to eating, drinking, giving and self-caring your way to a very merry holiday this year): https://www.ft.com/content/3d6c80dd-dbc3-4e0e-939f-b917aa401dfc
Here are Ludo’s reviews of his favourite albums of the year (all free to read):
–The Weather Station: Ignorance https://www.ft.com/content/57aef341-cce1-4816-9939-3c71a3fe5edf
–Nation of Language: A Way Forward https://www.ft.com/content/ed7f3da8-d033-4ca0-90c7-1b7e4b425a19
–Pharoah Sanders, Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra: Promises https://www.ft.com/content/c00c0655-013d-4d3b-8c7c-bf7dea47c1fc
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Thank you to everyone who shared your notes, including: Andrei Berghianu from Romania, Olga Sihmane from Stockholm, Ashley Harris from Brooklyn, Lily Bland, Roger Ralph, Manish Prayaga, Helen Beedham, April from Los Angeles and so many more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the last episode of the year of FT Weekend, the podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Lila Raptopoulos Christmas is coming rapidly and when I think about Christmas, I think |
| 0:34.3 | about something very weird and specific, which is just this mad dash for refrigeration. |
| 0:40.5 | I grew up in an old house with a lot of rooms and every Christmas day around 2pm, we'd |
| 0:46.1 | go from a very small family of five to a group of about 45. |
| 0:51.2 | It was just unwieldy, it was relatives and family friends and random people who would come |
| 0:56.6 | every year and a lot of them would come and they just stay for a week and with so many |
| 1:01.6 | people we were always running to the extra fridge in the basement. |
| 1:05.3 | There were a few years where my mother had so much food she had to rent a fridge. |
| 1:09.3 | We'd stick the wine bottles in the snow and one year it was cold enough that we just |
| 1:13.4 | put the whole turkey in the car and then of course at 2am everyone would crawl out |
| 1:17.6 | of the woodwork and start pulling things out of all the fridges again so we could snack |
| 1:22.0 | and gossip about our relatives. |
| 1:24.8 | It was chaotic and it was fun and it was a really special time for my family as the holidays |
| 1:30.3 | are for a lot of people. |
| 1:36.2 | Last year was small, it was just our immediate family, one fridge was enough and I missed |
| 1:42.9 | the old Christmas but you know we were also a lot more present, we talked to each other |
| 1:48.3 | and we listened and it was a little less tiring and this year it's going to be different |
| 1:53.8 | again. |
| 1:55.2 | Things change and this year has been a big one for me, the podcast launched in September |
| 2:00.0 | and the past four months have just whipped by at full speed and I have to say it has been |
| 2:06.0 | so fulfilling to host this place where you can meet my colleagues at the FT and we can |
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