The perfect winter survival guide

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today we are bringing you a winter survival guide, full of deceptively small tips that will make winter unmeasurably better. How do we best appreciate these cold, dark months? How do we stay stimulated, but also reject the grind? Our FT Weekend Magazine’s resident “winter goddesses” Griselda Murray Brown and Cordelia Jenkins join Lilah armed with tons of delightful suggestions, from buying warm lightbulbs to reading your friends’ dusty old books. They also fight about electric vests. It’s a joy. We hope you love it.

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As you know, the show is ending in early January – we’re still collecting your cultural questions. What’s rolling around in your head? How can we help? Email Lilah at [email protected], or connect with her on Instagram @lilahrap.

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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):

– For our summer episode, search ‘How to have the perfect summer’ wherever you listen. Here it is on Spotify

– The FT Magazine’s advent special is full of tips for enjoying winter

– Lulu’s piece about watching 100 Christmas films is here: https://on.ft.com/3BBYrUR

– Cordelia mentioned “jealousy lists”: here’s the FT’s list of favourite non-FT articles published this year. Here’s Bloomberg’s (paywall). Cordelia is most jealous of this Guardian piece by Jonathan Nunn about Nicholas Saunders: “Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food”

– Gris loved Laura Marling’s album Patterns in Repeat. She also mentioned the book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat by Katherine May.

– Gris is on Instagram @griseldamurraybrown. Cordelia is on Bluesky @cordeliajenkins

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0:00.0	Welcome to Life and Art from F.T. Weekend. I'm Lila Raptopoulos, and this is our final Friday chat show.
0:08.5	Today we have a very special episode for you. We are gathering our best advice for how to make the most out of winter.
0:15.7	A while ago we did an episode on how to make the most out of your summer, and it included a lot of very small,
0:22.1	very delightful advice that had a surprisingly large impact. Things like, put your normal,
0:27.8	sad drinks in your nice fancy glasses with nice fancy ice, or actually buy a ticket from a scalper
0:34.4	outside of a gig. And it turns out that episode stuck with all of you
0:38.0	just as much as it stuck with me. As we've been collecting your cultural questions, I got an
0:42.6	email from a listener, Anne Stukas, who asked us for this same episode, but for winter. So today,
0:49.1	we decided to do it. A winter survival guide. So let's get into it. I have two very special guests today. Here we go. I'm Lila in
0:57.2	New York, and in the winter you can find me starting and then promptly abandoning new hobbies,
1:02.3	whether that be sewing or pickling or running or Peloton, making matcha, selling these clothes on the
1:08.6	internet. That's not a joke. That's just true. Joining me from
1:11.8	London, she's currently rewatching all 32 seasons of real world under an electric blanket. It's the
1:17.5	FTs magazine editor, Cordelia Jenkins. Hi, Cordelia. Hello. I was thinking, what is the
1:24.3	first reality show? I think it's the real world. Also in London,
1:29.2	thank God we have her here because she's kept me up to date on highbrow culture for years.
1:33.9	She will be at the theater while we are watching Bravo. It's my good friend, former co-host,
1:39.1	and the FD Magazine's commissioning editor, Grislda Murray Brown. Hi, Gris. Hi, Lila. Nice to be here. So nice to have you.
1:46.1	Okay, so to start off, where are you both coming to this from? Yeah, what are your feelings about winter?
1:53.9	Like, are you a winter person? Do you hate it? Do you love it? Cordelia. Well, I have to confess to
2:00.2	actually being a bit of a winter fan girl.
2:03.3	Oh, really?
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