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Behind the Money

Behind the Money

Behind the Money takes you inside the business and financial stories of the moment with reporting from Financial Times journalists around the world.

Financial Times · Manuela Saragosa

338 episodesEN

Show overview

Behind the Money has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 338 episodes, alongside 14 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 120 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 18 min and 23 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 35 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 66 episodes published. Published by Manuela Saragosa.

Episodes
338
Running
2018–2026 · 8y
Median length
20 min
Cadence
Fortnightly

From the publisher

Behind the Money takes you inside the business and financial stories of the moment with reporting from Financial Times journalists around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?

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How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

Aug 12, 202650 min

The hidden financial world of ancient Rome

Aug 5, 202654 min

The canal that shaped American finance

Jul 29, 202640 min

The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all

Jul 22, 202654 min

The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister

Jul 15, 202638 min

South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis

Jul 8, 202652 min

The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

Jul 1, 202655 min

The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

Jun 24, 202647 min

The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

Jun 17, 202650 min

When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold

Jun 10, 202640 min

Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

Jun 3, 202639 min

The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor

May 27, 202646 min

The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world

May 20, 202653 min

Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history

May 13, 202644 min

When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America

May 6, 202656 min

Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

Apr 29, 202653 min

They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?

Apr 22, 202638 min

How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

Apr 22, 202642 min

Introducing: The Story of Money

Apr 15, 20261 min
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