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Students from five business schools participated in the annual FT MBA quiz. The Work and Careers team caught up with a few participants and asked them about the best strategy for choosing - and landing - a good internship.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sound engineers at a company called CereProc in Edinburgh have spliced together bits and pieces of John F Kennedy’s recorded speeches to recreate one of the most famous speeches that was never delivered: the 20-minute address that President Kennedy was due to have given at the Dallas Trade Mart, a few hours after he was assassinated in November 1963. Go to the FT's Work and Careers section to read Sam Leith's analysis of the oratory. Credit: The Times/Rothco/CereProc  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this fourth episode, Isabel Berwick, and Helen Barrett talk to Leah Weiss about her book How We Work. According to the author even the most mundane jobs can have purpose.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Columnist Emma Jacobs talks to Daniel Cable, professor at London Business School, about his new book Alive at Work. The organisational behaviour expert explains experimentation is vital to help employees feel revitalised and offset the blues of the daily grind.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the third episode, Isabel Berwick, and Michael Skapinker talk to Jerry Muller about his book The Tyranny of Metrics and how the obsession with quantifying performance is bad for business.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this second of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Reny Morsch, a 51-year-old former forex trader who is now training to be a costume designer  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the second episode, Isabel Berwick, and Emma Jacobs talk to Catherine Price about her book How to Break up With Your Phone.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the first episode, Isabel Berwick, Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs talk to Morten Hansen about his new book Great at Work: How Great Performers Work Less and Achieve More  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this first of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Kimberley Davenport, who is trying to adapt to self employment and working life after redundancy  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you take your business book from proposal to publication? Find out in this bonus episode to celebrate the FT and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for best business book proposal of the year by a young business writer. Andrew Hill hosts a discussion with an agent, publisher, 2015's winning co-author and this year’s three finalists  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this sixth episode, Andrew Hill, management editor, and Emma Jacobs, work and careers writer, hear from Ellen Pao, author of Reset, on tackling discrimination in the tech industry.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this fifth episode, Isabel Berwick, assistant features editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Andrew Lo, author of Adaptive Markets, on his hypothesis that the theory of market efficiency is not wrong but is incomplete.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this fourth episode, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Brian Merchant, author of The One Device, which examines the secret history of the iPhone.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this third episode, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Amy Goldstein, author of Janesville, about the impact on a Wisconsin community of General Motors’ decision to close its assembly plant  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In the second episode of our third series, Isabel Berwick, assistant features editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Walter Scheidel, author of The Great Leveler, about how violent shocks decrease inequality.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In the first episode of our third series, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from David Enrich, author of The Spider Network, about the Libor scandal and its central character, Tom Hayes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the ninth episode of our second series, contributing editor Michael Skapinker and science commentator Anjana Ahuja, discuss Robert Hare’s Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the eighth episode of our second series, Work and Careers editor Helen Barrett and contributing editor Michael Skapinker discuss ‘Henry IV Part 2’ by William Shakespeare  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT's Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in these turbulent times. In the seventh episode of our second series, FT columnist Andrew Hill and employment correspondent Sarah O'Connor join columnist and commentator Miranda Green to discuss Studs Terkel’s classic book 'Working'.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the sixth episode of our second series, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, joins Helen Barrett and Andrew Hill to discuss ‘Between Debt and the Devil’ by Adair Turner  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.