A reissue of the group’s 1981 debut recalls a fecund period in Accra’s musical history

Less pollution and fine weather create ideal conditions for studying constellations

Indigenous protests over gas project are snarling rail traffic and hurting businesses

Tory manifesto pledge aimed at ‘levelling up’ the regions of Britain faces uphill struggle

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss UBS's cultural faux pas in China, Deutsche Bank's plan to set up a 'bad bank' and Facebook's bid to shake up the payments world. With special guest Jan Kvarnström, bank restructuring expert.  

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Don Weinland, Beijing financial correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent and Elaine Moore, deputy head of Lex. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Lloyds Bank and its offshore banking problems, the latest on the regulatory tests facing Facebook's Libra initiative, and how banks have fared in this year's US Fed stress tests.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Hannah Murphy, technology correspondent, and Kiran Stacey, US regulatory correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Facebook's recent talks with the world's central bankers on its plans for a digital currency, whether the UK's challenger banks can maintain their astonishing rate of expansion, and a potential scandal at JPMorgan as three of its metals traders are charged with market manipulation. With special guest Tom Merry, managing director at Accenture Strategy.

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ECB prepared to cut rates again, says its chief economist

Swedbank admits to money-laundering failings

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Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Mehreen Khan, Brussels correspondent, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Henry Sanderson, commodities correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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David Crow and guests discuss Standard Chartered chief Bill Winters' 'voluntary' pay cut after a dispute over his pension allowance, Citigroup's confidence in the City of London regardless of the outcome of Brexit, and gathering clouds for Facebook's much hyped digital currency, Libra. With special guest David Livingstone, chief executive of Citigroup in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Contributors: David Crow, banking editor, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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The French conceptualist’s exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo is a sense-scrambling rethink of the relationship between art and the environment in which it appears  

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The grand hymn of redemption took a long path to its current stature in American spirituality, from John Newton’s original lyric to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Ian McCann follows its turbulent history. Credits: Rhino Atlantic, Marathon, Ameritz Music, Bandleader Recordings, UMC  

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Thousands affected as many flights cancelled and airports closed because of coronavirus pandemic

Facebook plans to shake up the finance world with a new digital currency called Libra - we hear about its pros and cons. Next up, we discover what Moll Flanders, the literary anti-heroine, can tell us about modern day bank fraud. And finally we find out how smaller shareholders can stand up for their rights. 

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Millennial v Boomer: One stands by her employee ping pong tables while the other caters discreetly for customers

Consumers who use tax preparation services or software could have to wait months for money

Pentwater Capital calls for boardroom change in vehicle developing Oyu Tolgoi

Amity between old adversaries almost certain to crumble once first ball is bowled

Owner of some of UK’s biggest shopping malls still faces uphill struggle

Oil price collapse and crumbling health system put Latin American nation at risk

Work dries up under lockdown but returning home could be more perilous than staying put

Bondholders weigh deal with Macri against negotiating with likely successor Fernández

Creditors prepare for tough negotiations after IMF calls on them to share the pain

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn spar in a televised debate just six days before the general election.

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Facebook has revealed plans for a new global digital currency, claiming it will enable billions of people around the world without a bank account to make money transfers. Patrick Jenkins discusses the initiative and what it means for the banks with Nick Megaw, Caroline Binham and Elaine Moore.

Contributors: Suzanne Blumsom, executive editor, Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent and Elaine Moore, deputy head of Lex. Producer: Fiona Symon

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The race for the US Democratic presidential nomination is hotting up with a huge field of 23 candidates all hoping run against Donald Trump in 2020.  Courtney Weaver has focused in on one of the candidates, Kamala Harris, and she talks to Neville Hawcock about how the campaign for the Democratic nomination is shaping up. Read Courtney's article here

Contributors: Josh Noble, weekend news editor, Neville Hawcock, acting deputy editor, FT Weekend Magazine, and Courtney Weaver, Washington correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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How can we make corporate life female-friendly? Deborah Hargreaves, former FT journalist and founder of the High Pay Centre think tank, spent a year talking to women to research this topic and she came into the studio to discuss her findings with Isabel Berwick and Josh Noble. Read Deborah's report here

Contributors: Naomi Rovnick, Live News reporter, Isabel Berwick, editor of FT work and careers, Deborah Hargreaves, director of the High Pay Centre, and Josh Noble, weekend news editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Hong Kong protests against a proposed extradition law that would allow criminal suspects to be handed over to China are continuing, despite a concession by the Hong Kong chief executive to suspend the proposed law. Naomi Rovnick discusses discusses what’s at stake for China and what the protesters are seeking to achieve, with Tom Mitchell in Beijing and Sue-Lin Wong in Hong Kong.

Contributors: Suzanne Blumsom, executive editor, Naomi Rovnick FT Live reporter, Sue-Lin Wong, South China correspondent and Tom Mitchell, Beijing bureau chief. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Donald Trump has dashed hopes for an imminent peace deal with the Taliban that were intended to pave the way for the US to withdraw the last of its troops from Afghanistan. Jyotsna Singh discusses how this leaves the war torn country as it prepares for presidential elections at the end of the month, with Stephanie Findlay and Farhan Bokhari.

Contributors: Jyotsna Singh, Delhi reporter, Stephanie Findlay, South Asia correspondent, and Farhan Bokhari, Producers: Jyotsna Singh and Fiona Symon

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Funding bodies face a choice between established manufacturers and biotech upstarts

Nation’s pharma industry has matured but is still a lot better at incremental innovation than major breakthroughs

Stuart Levey, known for tough enforcement of sanctions on Iran, will head digital currency project

The industry has been one of the hardest hit, with contracts cancelled, production halted and pleas for big bailouts

The pandemic has made airlines reluctant or unable to accept new jets

Banning computers from ‘lock-ups’ forces rethink on how markets respond

London bourse’s transformative acquisition is facing more scrutiny than expected

Business being bought from Blackstone-led consortium has lost ground to Bloomberg

Thousands of jobs at risk as coronavirus pandemic leads to a fall-off in demand

Chunk of assets already pledged as collateral could complicate efforts to secure fresh debt

UK airport reports slump in passenger demand as calls resurface for expansion to be axed

How Virgin Galactic might help the rest of the group escape the gravitational pull of coronavirus

Viral outbreak has sped shift to online platforms, squeezing many traditional outfits

Non-bank lenders put on downgrade watch as sector braces for wave of borrowers not paying

The time it takes for employees to be assessed is putting companies in delicate legal territory

Pandemic could dwarf other disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, John Neal says

£3.5bn worth of dividend payments cancelled this week 

Even dividends from stalwarts Shell and BP may be in doubt in the fallout from the Covid-19 crisis 

The campaign has shone an unflattering light on the state of politics in America

Since their peak almost a month ago, European banks indices have plunged 40 per cent

Activist investor sought to take control of strategy at French group led by Arnaud Lagardère