Hi and welcome to FT Weekend. I'm Lila Raptopoulos. We're starting this show with an ask.

We're preparing for a fun end of year episode for you and we really want you to be part of it.

Every December, the FT does these predictions for the following year. They're called forecasting the world,

where FT experts and readers predict what's going to happen

in the next 12 months. Here at FT Weekend, the podcast, instead of your oil price predictions,

we want your cultural predictions. Or really, we want your cultural wish list. What do you hope

will happen culturally in 2022? Do you want Sally Rooney to write a screenplay? Do you want a Beyonce

Greta Tunberg collab? Do you want the noodles of Shanshee China to take over the world?

I've invited a special guest, FT magazine editor Matt Vela, and we'll chat through your

predictions and any questions you have for him or for me.

We want this to be global and fun and a little weird.

So if you think we won't know the cultural reference you're talking about, just send it anyway.

The best way to do all this is to send us a voice note.

Open your voice memo app, record a voice note, and then email it to FT Weekend at FT.com. We've put all the details in the show notes.

And you can write us too, but I promise your voice is beautiful and we really want to hear your audio notes.

I'm also giving you a deadline. It's next Sunday, December 12th at the latest.

This weekend, we're talking about new ways to see old things.

First, we have the director Pablo Lorraine, who just came out with the film Spencer about Princess Diana. I know it's another biopic about Princess Diana. We've counted about

11 since 1982.

But this one really does feel different.

Lorraine doesn't even believe in biophics.

I actually don't think that biopics can exist.

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