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Trumix.com listings available of FT.com Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Martin Wolf: Share gains with globalisation's losers Globalisation remains the great economic story of our era. It is also the great political story. The big question remains how likely is a reversal of our era's move towards a more integrated global economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Malaise of middlescence Middlescents are like adolescents, only 30 years older. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Laughter not all it's cracked up to be Earlier this month 100 senior managers from a well-known company boarded planes and flew to the US. Their mission: to laugh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com podcast - Lucy Kellaway: Why it's better to play by the rules If I think of all the really successful people I know, they are not all big risk-takers. Good at what they do, they are variously ambitious, determined, ruthless and lucky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com podcast - Lucy Kellaway: Stubborn guilt stains When it comes to a tricky relationship between boss and subordinate there is none worse than that between the domestic cleaner and their employer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com podcast - Lucy Kellaway: Diversity into drivel There is a generalisation about women that I strongly believe: we talk less nonsense than men, at least in public. Alas, when the theme is diversity this seems not to be the case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com Artscast, April 6, 2006 - your critical guide to the weekend and ahead Rob Minto, interactive editor of FT.com, talks to Andrew Clark about the upcoming Glyndebourne Festival; Ludovic Hunter-Tilney gives his verdict on The Streets third album; Rosie Blau gives her book recommenations; and dance critic Clement Crisp has the Bolshoi Ballet in Manchester in his sights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com Artscast Rob Minto, interactive editor of FT.com, talks to the FT's film critic Nigel Andrews about The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada as well as other films on release; and dance critic Clement Crisp is excited about the cast in Royal Opera House's Romeo and Juliette, as well as the high camp of the Trocadero ballet of Monte Carlo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com podcast - Lucy Kellaway: my six work marriages What is an office spouse? Lucy explains the rules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com Artscast Rob Minto, interactive editor of FT.com, talks to arts editor Jan Dalley about the FT's pick of theatre, film, visual arts and music; Rosie Blau recommends a true tale of female survival as her book for this weekend; and finally, dance critic Clement Crisp gives his always-entertaining thoughts on two very different ballets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com Podcast: UK Budget analysis Economics editor Chris Giles discusses some of the themes and details of Gordon Brown's 10th Budget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com Podcast: UK Budget preview Economics Editor Chris Giles discusses what to expect in Gordon Brown's 10th Budget Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Managers need the S-factor Some managers are starting to use sticks with pride once again. Scariness is "in". After years in the corporate wilderness, it is back in fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: Decay and the welfare state The time has come for Europeans to ask themselves the unthinkable: can their vaunted social model endure? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com Artscast The FT's arts critics - a cultural guide to the weekend and ahead. This week Andrew Clark gives his verdict on opera, Clement Crisp shares his luminous thoughts on the Bolshoi Ballet, and Rosie Blau has her book recommendations. Plus, our critical reviews of film, pop, theatre and the must-see galleries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: Answer to Asia's rise is not to retreat The world is indeed going through a huge supply shock. But for the high-income countries, the best advice is: relax. The internal redistribution of income caused by trade is likely to be modest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: Unreformed, but Japan is back Japan is not recovering because it has a brand new economy: what has been achieved in recent years is a partial clean-up of the legacy of the bubble years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Need career guidance? I can help This week Lucy Kellaway has an important announcement to make: she is becoming an agony aunt Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lexcast: Vodafone Vodafone's founding fathers used to finish results days at the Savoy Hotel, where they would enjoy full English breakfasts, discuss global domination and challenge analysts to games of liar's dice. The inheritor of this culture was Arun Sarin, a golf-playing American technocrat, who finally seems to have stamped his authority on the business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artscast special: Oscars The Financial Times film critic Nigel Andrews gives his verdict on the 78th Annual Academy Awards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT.com Artscast The FT's arts critics - a cultural guide to the weekend and ahead Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lexcast: British Airways Given the smooth handover of power from Rod Eddington to Willie Walsh, a radical change in strategy at British Airways was hardly on the cards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lexcast: VNU Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So, too, is the value of a company. According to VNU's management and the consortium of six private equity houses trying to buy the Dutch business information group, it is worth Euro28.75 per share. Rebel shareholders think it is worth more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lexcast: Aegis The best form of defence is attack. Aegis, the media-buying and market research group has been the subject of considerable bid speculation over the last 12 months. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lexcast: HSBC Tracy Corrigan, head of Lex: HSBC likes to make it sound as if banking is full of thrills. While HSBC reported record 2005 profits and an encouraging short-term outlook, its group chairman also warned investors that it could all go wrong: "unprecedented" trade imbalances, demographic change and protectionism are among the threats facing the global financial markets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: The thankless task of academia In most companies changing course is hard; at big, successful universities it seems impossible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: World needs independent Fund Even if the IMF's role as lender of last resort is declining, it can still guide decision-making, particularly in strengthening global stability. To do so, it must becomes a tough, independent organisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Avoidant personality disorder Avoiding things is a natural way of setting priorities Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: Of rights and virtues What are the proper limits of free expression? Should the law set the limits on free speech? How should people live alongside those whose beliefs they may abhor? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: India's economic standing Since India economic growth is now forecast at 8.1% this fiscal year to March 31 confidence is running high Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Traits of the non-job If you can't describe your job in one sentence, you are either a nuclear physicist or your job shouldn't exist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: The opportunities and threats of globalisation China, India, trade, climate change, energy and security, Google, global imbalances, Iran's nuclear programme. What do all these topics have in common? One answer is that they were all discussed at Davos. But a deeper one is that they all come under the rubric of "Opportunities and threats of globalisation". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Go far with self-belief In exams, the belief that one has done brilliantly is neither necessary nor a sufficient condition for actually doing so. In organisations, such a belief is vital for climbing the greasy pole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: Democracy and the future What political fate is likely to befall Iraq, Russia, Lebanon, Ukraine, Chile, Tanzania or any of the countries that have moved towards democracy in recent decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf: Tyranny of vested interests Why are some countries rich and many others so poor? Why has it proved so difficult for those mired in poverty to catch up with the prosperous? These are the most important questions in economics. Few have addressed them with more insight than William Lewis, founding director of the McKinsey Global Institute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Why work experience doesn't pay The popular idea is that work experience teaches teenagers something valuable about working life. It actually teaches them about photocopying and making tea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway, columnist, January 2006 The day the wheels came off Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: The 2005 prizes for stupidity As the holiday season is upon us, Lucy would like to gift you with a stocking full of prizes awarded for stupidity and bad taste in business. And if you noticed nothing amiss with the previous sentence, then you should be banned from going any further. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Wolf on surprises and unexpected pleasures of 2005 Let us give credit where credit is due: the forecasters proved right Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Advice for Mrs Cameron Dear Mrs Cameron: I know you plan to be a good political wife, but you will find there are limits to your enthusiasm. Soon you will have three small children - and little appetite for evenings out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: The plague of professional life What could you live without in your professional life? Bragging chief executives' autobiographies? Could you do without BlackBerries? Consultants? Office politics? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Giles, Economics editor, on the 2005 Pre-Budget report With one line in his speech, the chancellor conceded what everyone else has known for some time: 2005 has been "the toughest and most challenging year for the economy" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Uptick in my tolerance of jargon I was called by a publisher and asked if I would like to write a book that would thunder against business jargon. Not only is there no call for yet another book, my views on business jargon can be expressed at rather less than book length. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UK pre-Budget report FT economics editor Chris Giles explains why Gordon Brown's ninth pre-Budget report will be one of his most difficult. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: On the merits of trifling distractions What makes interruptions a tricky subject is that they are not just a terrific waste of time - they are also essential. Interruptions can make us feel wanted and give variety to work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Unstress about stress As I started to research this column on stress I started feeling bad again.Stress, I discover, is a bit like yawning. When others yawn, I do too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Shaky foundations for a column Columnists should not attack other columnists but I am going to ignore this fine principle and offer you a line-by-line deconstruction of a column called "Winning" by Jack and Suzy Welch. The sentiment is crashingly banal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucy Kellaway: Honking for Harvard On a perfectlynormal day at Harvard a couple of weeks ago, a dozen future leaders of the world sat in a circle and cried: honk! honk! honk! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website