It's 2020 and Culture Call, the Financial Times' only Transatlantic podcast, is back for season two.

Yes, it's a brand new decade.

And we've got all new artwork.

So you can see finally what we look like.

We're dropping new episodes every two weeks from Thursday, February 6th.

Yeah, so join us.

That's me, Grizal Demari Brown, in London.

And me, Lila Raptopoulos, in New York.

We'll be getting together to interview the people breaking new ground in culture.

That could be artists and writers and chefs and comedians.

And we'll also be making sense of the trends that are shaping life in the 2020s,

from pop stars to memoirs, abstraction to athleisure.

I want to say athleisure.

I say athleisure.

It sounds so weird for me to say it.

We're already stuck.

And as well as all that, we will also bring you behind the scenes of the FTs award-winning Life and arts journalism. That means we'll be bringing our favorite critics and writers into our studios to chat. So the kind of insider secrets of the London press critic, I've seen people bowling out of the cinema ten minutes before the end credits, you know, just in order to get the review up quickly. Wow. Yeah, it happened. So you may come to hear what's happening in New York and London,

two cultural capitals, but we really hope that you'll stay for compelling in-depth interviews that

aren't afraid to go deep. Right, we are kicking off the season with a pre-Oscar special. So Gris has

interviewed the King of Indy movies Noah Bomback about his film Marriage Story. I felt like exploring the end of a marriage by throwing an egg on the floor and seeing what's inside,

that I could actually tell a kind of love story.

We've also got the award-winning author, Ema McBride,

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