Trendy food and faddish diets. Plus: artist Cornelia Parker
Kombucha? Purple food? Spirulina? Food trends might seem mostly fatuous, but do we need them? Tim Hayward identifies what’s hot now. And Gris meets the witty Cornelia Parker, destroyer of silver spoon...
7 Jul 201849min
1968 and the spirit of protest today. Plus: comedian Fern Brady
Fifty years after the uprisings in Paris, Prague and the US, protest is back. There's Black Lives Matter, #MeToo — and the Stop Trump march in London next month. But what has changed? We talk to FT ar...
23 Jun 201845min
Our World Cup hopes and fears. Plus: Akram Khan
As the World Cup "kicks off" in Russia, we chat to two FT football fanatics, theatre critic Sarah Hemming and magazine associate editor Neil O'Sullivan, about the beautiful game. Later, Gris meets the...
14 Jun 201833min
The birth (and death) of American cool. Plus: Complicité's Simon McBurney
Detachment, poise, charisma: "cool" can mean many things. In our season finale, Gris is joined by the academic Sarah Churchwell and arts writer Peter Aspden to discuss its evolution from the 1920s to ...
31 Mar 201851min
Peak TV — from The Sopranos to Skam
We discuss the evolution of television's so-called "golden age", from The Sopranos and The Wire to Atlanta and Broad City. What really changed? And what's next? Will original shows from Facebook, Appl...
24 Mar 201837min
Peter Carey on Australia's original sin. Plus: a new short story by JM Coetzee
This week: two titans of literature with four Booker Prizes between them. First up, Peter Carey on tackling the relationship between Australia's white and Aboriginal populations in his new novel, A Lo...
17 Mar 201826min
Women After Weinstein, with Laura Bates and Reni Eddo-Lodge. Plus: Leila Slimani on motherhood
What’s the role of feminism in the #MeToo era? We talk to Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism project, and Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People ...
8 Mar 201855min
Oscars 2018: the movies and the moment. Plus: Ekow Eshun on Black Panther
Film special! We debate the Academy Awards, why they matter and who should win: Get Out, Call Me By Your Name or Lady Bird? And what does Three Billboards — its success and backlash — say about the cu...
2 Mar 201851min
