Hey, this is everything else. The new podcast from The Financial Times, which we won't talk about the rise of exchange traded funds and don't get me started on the triggering of Article 50. That's right. This is a culture podcast. Think film, not finance, music not markets, and style not stocks.

On today's show, we'll cover books, contemporary art and performance poetry, as well as all

you can eat buffets.

We'll also hear from the writer, poet and novelist Kate Tempest.

She talks about her influences from the Wutang Clan to William Blake.

She also tells us about the rougher side of London and how it runs through all of her work.

But before that, we'll be discussing the politics of prizegiving,

from the Nobel Prize for Literature, which Dylan won this year,

to the Turner Prize, which was announced this week.

And we'll also be speaking to FT reporter Richard Milne,

who recently went to Reykjavik to have lunch with the man who jailed Iceland's bankers.

My name's John Sonia.

And I'm Griselda Murray Brown, and we're both culture editors here at the FT.

Today we wanted to discuss the politics of prize giving because we're interested in how these kinds of cultural awards work.

Who judge them, what they're judging, why they drive so many people slightly crazy,

and what they can tell us about our wider culture.

Awards have been a bit controversial this year.

There was Oscars So White at the start of the year.

In October, much of the literary establishment was outraged when Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This week, of course, was the Turner Prize, won by the 31-year-old artist Helen Martin,

which in fact wasn't particularly controversial.

And we'll discuss later why Britain's best-known Contemporary Art Prize fails to whip up controversy, as it once did.

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