Our final episode: thank you
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This is it. Today we present you a massive special episode full of wisdom, which answers your final pressing questions. Listeners wrote in from around the world — from Perth to Virginia to Prague — asking about music, cooking, careers, home, fashion and how to live a good life. Lilah invites her colleagues and friends on to explore them. And now, all there is left to say is a big, loud, wholehearted, vigorous thank you.
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Please keep in touch – Lilah loves hearing from you and will still be posting about culture, food, art and more on Instagram @lilahrap. Email her at [email protected].
You can read Globetrotter at ft.com/globetrotter and follow along @ftglobetrotter on Instagram.
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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):
– Tim Harford’s podcast is called Cautionary Tales, and his column is The Undercover Economist. He references Adam Gopnik and Oliver Burkeman, and if you want to lead a better life by spending less time on the internet, he recommends Cal Newport's book Digital Minimalism.
– Here are the cookbooks Harriet Fitch Little and Lilah mentioned: Fuchsia Dunlop's The Food of Sichuan, Fadi Kattan's Bethlehem, Maria Bradford's Sweet Salone, and Pati Jinich's Treasures of the Mexican Table. Harriet is on Instagram at @hufffffle.
– Isabel Berwick’s Working It newsletter is here, and her book is called The Future-Proof Career.
– Eric Platt, at the time of recording, was wearing a heather gray turtleneck and navy corduroys from Officine Générale and black Prada combat boots. If you’re interested in corporate finance, he’s on X and Bluesky @EricGPlatt.
– Ludovic Hunter-Tilney mentions Gang Starr’s 1994 song “Mostly tha Voice”, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy's first album Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987), and Migos. One of his most listened to songs of 2024 was “Bande organisée”, by Marseille rap group 13'Organisé. Here’s another episode we love with Ludo, on Taylor Swift (Apple, Spotify).
– Enuma Okoro is an FT Weekend columnist. Here’s her most recent column, on new ways to think about the new year.
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Music credits: Jive Records, Chrysalis and EMI Records, Quality Control Music
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend. I'm Lila Graftopoulos. |
| 0:06.7 | Okay, we have reached our final episode. This is officially my chance to thank all of you for being with me on this incredible run over the past five years. |
| 0:18.4 | For this last one, we have brought you a very big episode, as the Brits say a bumper episode. |
| 0:24.5 | It's for the real fans. |
| 0:26.0 | And I love it because it combines my three favorite things about the show. |
| 0:30.3 | The first is questions and where they lead us. |
| 0:33.4 | As you know, I live in questions. |
| 0:34.9 | I will ask why until your ears fall off, and I loved reading yours. |
| 0:39.9 | The second are my colleagues. |
| 0:41.8 | I bring my colleagues a question, and they add intellect, they add depth, they add research, |
| 0:49.2 | they add whimsy, and they add a lot of fun. |
| 0:52.1 | That includes my colleagues that make this show, Katya and Lulu, |
| 0:56.5 | and our executive producer, Tofer, who you all know because they have been on this show many a time. |
| 1:02.2 | It includes our sound engineers, Breen and Sam, who are absolute magicians. |
| 1:06.7 | And it includes virtually every editor, journalist, and critic we've ever had on here. |
| 1:12.8 | My third favorite thing about the show is you. |
| 1:16.0 | Sometimes listeners will send me photos of where they're listening from, |
| 1:19.2 | and it'll be something like a sunset on the Irish countryside. |
| 1:23.5 | And it says, like, just went for a run and listen to your last episode. |
| 1:26.9 | Or it'll be like a beautiful |
| 1:28.7 | breakfast on a balcony in Spain. And it always makes me feel like we're together. Like, we're |
| 1:35.3 | both having a conversation, whoever you are, while you're cooking lunch or while you're commuting to work, |
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