How to have the perfect summer

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're talking about how to have the best summer ever. FT magazine editor Matt Vella joins us, and we go through suggestions from listeners, from putting everything in the freezer to getting your ice-cream truck driver's phone number. We also chat about this summer's cultural highlights, and how you might be better off skipping Beyoncé and going to see a local or second-tier band.

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We love hearing from you! You can email us at [email protected], we’re on Twitter @ftweekendpod, and Lilah is on Instagram and Twitter @lilahrap.

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Links:

– Matt’s cultural recommendations: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will be out 28 June. Check your local listings for tour dates for Beyoncė, Shania Twain, and Le Tigre

– We also mentioned the Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense.

– A beautiful column by our colleague Enuma Okoro: The pleasure and possibility of summer https://on.ft.com/3P7sAzM

– The best summer music festivals worldwide: https://on.ft.com/3p4pLF2

– The perfect menu for your first summer meal outdoors (Ravinder Bhogal recipes): https://on.ft.com/3NtZHMN

– You can browse the entire summer food and drink special here: https://on.ft.com/3Ct9Q67

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Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco.

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0:00.0	all through this month i have been saying to friends and strangers and whoever will listen
0:10.6	that i have a good feeling about this summer i think we're all going to have the summer of our lives
0:15.6	i'm not sure why i know this but everyone I say it to seems to believe me.
0:22.4	Maybe we're just ready for it.
0:27.7	Also, all you really need to have a great summer is to decide you're going to have a great summer and to do stuff that makes you happy.
0:30.7	So over the past few weeks, we've been crowdsourcing summer ideas from you.
0:36.3	And today, we've invited my colleague Matt Vela on, the editor of F.T. Weekend magazine, to chat through them. I knew he'd also have some good, strong opinions of his own.
0:46.8	Having a boat is terrible. Nobody should have a boat. But everyone should have a friend with a boat because that's very good.
0:54.9	My brother-in-law has a boat, which is horrible for him and wonderful for us. Yeah. I think the like
1:01.7	to-do item is find yourself a friend with a boat. Yeah. Yeah. That is just one of many tips we've
1:09.4	collected of small things to do that will make your summer infinitely better.
1:14.3	Your responses were unsurprisingly excellent.
1:17.3	They always are.
1:18.6	And now we're just going to get into it.
1:20.6	Thank you for being part of this.
1:22.4	I am thrilled to enable you.
1:24.4	And now it's up to you.
1:26.2	Go out there, do the thing. This is FT Weekend. I'm Lila
1:30.9	Raptopoulos.
1:38.1	Matt Vela, welcome to the show. Thank you. It's so good to have you here. Thank you so much.
1:41.6	I'd love being here. I've been excited about this for weeks. We are here to talk about having the summer of our lives.
1:51.1	We're both turning 13. Exactly. Excellent.
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