The Rachman Review

Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the UK. You might be living with lead and not know it: the toxin is often invisible to the human eye, but wreaks havoc on our bodies once we’re exposed. The first episode of Untold: Toxic Legacy launches October 22.  Listen on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-the-retreat/id1724826952], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/1GUc0a6lsMCaTDbgIU4tgJ?si=09ccf1177eb04f24], Pocket Casts [https://pca.st/podcast/006b38d0-9135-013c-9fe5-0acc26574db2] or wherever you get your podcasts. For information on how to live safely with lead, please visit the LEAPP Alliance [https://leappalliance.org.uk/] website. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Gideon talks to Taipei-based policy analyst J Michael Cole about how the Taiwanese are handling the threat of invasion from Beijing. Clips: APT News; RTI English. Free links to read more on this topic: TSMC’s stock market rally is a triumph of need over fear [https://on.ft.com/4oqFXtj] Taiwan accelerates ‘T-dome’ missile plan against China threat [https://on.ft.com/4nMq68p] Taiwan backtracks on chip export curbs to South Africa after China spat [https://on.ft.com/43nrPZx] Taiwan becomes largest importer of Russian naphtha [https://on.ft.com/4h7Dp0w] Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe. Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner and the executive producer is Flo Phillips. Follow Gideon on Bluesky or X @gideonrachman.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/gideonrachman.bsky.social], @gideonrachman [https://twitter.com/gideonrachman] Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com [https://www.ft.com/content/4a49b180-4208-49de-8c39-6de95cb4c91d] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Gideon talks to former White House official and Middle East expert Philip Gordon about Donald Trump’s plan for a peaceful end to the Gaza conflict. What are the chances that it can succeed and what are the main stumbling blocks? Clip: TRT World Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner join Israel-Hamas talks in Egypt [https://on.ft.com/3Wrrhhp] What remains of Gaza? [https://on.ft.com/4gY6J9M] Trump goes mainstream on the Middle East [https://on.ft.com/3VS8xHM] How Donald Trump’s Gaza deal came together [https://on.ft.com/4nKat1l] Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe. Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Jean-Marc Eck and the executive producer is Flo Phillips. Follow Gideon on Bluesky or X @gideonrachman.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/gideonrachman.bsky.social], @gideonrachman [https://twitter.com/gideonrachman] Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com [https://www.ft.com/content/c9ca0db7-38c9-4a2a-9512-423f7252d2e3] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants people to actually settle on Mars, transforming the human race into an interplanetary species.  In a new series of Tech Tonic, the FT’s Peggy Hollinger asks if we’re really about to land, and even live, on the red planet.  Free to read: Musk’s mission to Mars [https://on.ft.com/46wKR1P] Three days with America’s rocket chasers [https://on.ft.com/482sS4q] Tech Tonic is produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. The senior producer is Edwin Lane. Flo Phillips is the executive producer. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. Manuela Saragosa is the FT’s acting co-head of audio. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Gideon interviews Britain's deputy prime minister David Lammy at the Labour Party conference at a meeting hosted by the Tony Blair Institute. They discuss how the Starmer government, which has had a tough first year in office, can turn things around, as well as the Gaza peace plan, ties with the Trump administration and how to fight 'the politics of grievance'. Clip: Keir Starmer Free links to read more on this topic: Starmer urges Labour to launch ‘patriotic’ fight against Reform [https://on.ft.com/3IOuswr] How Donald Trump’s Gaza deal came together [https://on.ft.com/3IR9Un3] Trump goes mainstream on the Middle East [https://on.ft.com/4mDWCs5] ‘Lost the plot’: Tony Blair’s Gaza role prompts incredulity — and some hope [https://on.ft.com/3IOnbNa] Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe. Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner and the executive producer is Flo Phillips. Follow Gideon on Bluesky or X @gideonrachman.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/gideonrachman.bsky.social], @gideonrachman [https://twitter.com/gideonrachman] Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com [https://www.ft.com/content/31645d2b-fb02-4f5d-ad36-071f065bb26f] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.