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Undercover EconomistTim Harford
What the birth of the spreadsheet can teach us about generative AI
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
February 9, 2024
InterviewMusic
T Bone Burnett, architect of the Americana music revival, steps into the spotlight
...But it was Bob Dylan who pushed him to overcome his own self-doubt....
April 10, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFiction
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt — ageing playfully
...His amateur detectives live in an English retirement village, and their cool handling of murder(s) and violence has done wonders for intergenerational understanding....
June 29, 2023
ReviewTelevision
Wolf review — BBC1 dark-hearted thriller is filled with tenuous twists
...But the rushed, tenuous twist that joins the threads is not sufficiently rewarding to justify combining a suspenseful single-location chiller with a meandering, cliché-clotted detective drama....
July 31, 2023
News in-depthUS Department of Justice
Jack Smith: the federal prosecutor taking on Donald Trump
...While there, Smith worked on the first federal death penalty case in New York in 50 years, which resulted in the conviction of gang member Ronell Wilson for the murder of two undercover detectives....
June 15, 2023
The Weekend Essay
How will TV’s streaming wars end?
...There’s Better, a Leeds-based thriller with Leila Farzad as a compelling detective inspector falling into corruption to help her son, on iPlayer....
October 7, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Transcript
Transcript: The Retreat — Episode 3, Jaqui’s Story
...Two of the lead detectives on the case sped off in a car....
February 7, 2024
ReviewFilm
The Gray Man — Ryan Gosling lets the action do the talking in $200mn Netflix spectacle
...Here Billy Bob Thornton is a digitally de-aged CIA big wheel....
July 14, 2022
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Bob Marley, bitter almonds and King Charles I
...Which Bob Marley song begins “Old pirates, yes, they rob I”? What’s the only one of the 12 founding clubs of the Football League in 1888 to have won the Premier League?...
November 19, 2021
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Ramallah, Scrabble and Prince William’s godfather
...Last Seen Wearing and The Riddle of the Third Mile are books featuring which fictional detective as the protagonist?...
February 4, 2022
ReviewFiction
Mona — wry shenanigans at a Swedish literary gathering
...— looking “like she’d just walked out of a detective novel in which her destiny was to be murdered by a minor character”; and Philippe, who hopes (in vain) that no one will notice his attempt to pass off...
January 26, 2022
Trade Secrets
The US-WTO relationship remains flimsy Premium content
...A surge in counterfeit semiconductors entering the Japanese market has spawned a cottage industry of chip detectives (Nikkei, $)....
November 24, 2021
Transcript
The story of a stolen cookbook. Plus, Elizabeth Strout
...William has a connection through one of his previous girlfriends who was married to Bob Burgess, who was living in Crosby, Maine....
May 29, 2022
FT Magazine
The serial killer beside me
...She is a pianist with a dark, curly bob and a nose tip that spreads out from her face like a mushroom cap....
October 6, 2022
ReviewTelevision
Drugs, sex workers and canal chases abound in Amsterdam Vice
...Meanwhile, detective Judd Cox (Waldemar Torenstra) turns up for work hoping to make a good impression on his new partner....
March 5, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewTelevision
Old secrets haunt the present in ITV’s ghostly The Sister
...It wasn’t a great idea to marry the sister of the young woman in whose disappearance he was implicated, especially since her best friend is a police detective....
October 23, 2020
InterviewFilm
Denzel Washington: ‘We need spiritual callisthenics’
...“I observed closely the detectives, how they work. ‘Normal’ is not a word that describes their daily behaviour. I didn’t want to make Deke seem cop-ish, or detective-ish in a movie-ish way....
January 23, 2021
Television
BingeWatch — Z-Cars reflected a ’60s society in flux
...A Greek Cypriot kid at our school was stitched up on an offensive weapon charge by a senior detective....
October 1, 2020
ReviewFiction
When kids turn detective — the best new children’s books
...Serena Patel’s Anisha: Accidental Detective (Usborne, RRP£5.99) flips the detective duo dynamic of The Highland Falcon Thief around....
March 6, 2020
LexFinancial services
Atlas/Bob Diamond: out of Africa Premium content
...Bob Diamond’s African adventure was once pastiched as a No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency yarn....
February 6, 2019
From the apocalypse to the environment: the latest in gaming
Player 2 no longer: how games outgrew the movies
...Pokémon Detective Pikachu, a surprisingly likeable family film, transformed cutesy Pikachu into a hard-boiled sleuth with the voice of Ryan Reynolds....
August 6, 2019
FT SeriesPodcast of the week
True crime podcasts — The Hurricane Tapes delves into the case of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, with startling new testimony
...Their plight was documented in the song “Hurricane” by Bob Dylan, which protested Carter’s innocence, and was also the subject of a film starring Denzel Washington....
January 13, 2019
News in-depthTerrorism in UK
Russia’s oligarchs feel the chill in Skripal poisoning fallout
...March 8 A police officer, Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who visited Mr Skripal’s house, also falls critically ill. He takes two weeks to recover....
March 1, 2019
Artisans
Buoyant trade: model ships show history in the making
...“I’m a detective, really,” says Malcolm Darch of Salcombe, south Devon. “I never let anything pass me by.”...
October 19, 2018
Film
Orson Welles’ ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ on Netflix: was it worth the wait?
...Since Bob Random, the young actor playing the young actor, is eye-bogglingly gorgeous — think John Savage with Marc Bolan’s curls — this seems no cue for surprise or deep character inquest....
October 26, 2018

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