Podcast Episodes

Can Route 66 towns survive on nostalgia?

We're heading west along America's famed Route 66. As the road celebrates its 100th birthday, Victoria Craig finds out whether the pull of neon-drenc…

11 hours ago

The birth of India's call centre industry

In 1997, after years working abroad, Pramod Bhasin returned to India and spotted an opportunity that would help transform his country's economy.

Despi…

1 day, 16 hours ago

Taking Stock: Trump and Xi face the trade test

What's next for trade, tariffs and AI after Presidents Trump and Xi met at the White House? We examine what was agreed, whether tensions between the …

2 days, 22 hours ago

Trump meets Xi: what's at stake?

The presidents of the world's two biggest economies are meeting in Washington. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at the White House amid tensions over…

4 days, 11 hours ago

Founders: The American who built his business in China

Jacob Rothman moved from California to China and helped build a manufacturing business supplying some of the world's biggest retailers. We meet the c…

5 days, 11 hours ago

Follow the money: The journey of a $30 toy from China to America

Most toys sold in America are made in China. But cheap labour is no longer the main reason manufacturers stay there. As the US toy industry presses f…

6 days, 11 hours ago

From Mao and Nixon to Xi and Trump: A history of China-US trade

With Presidents Xi and Trump expected to meet in the United States this week, Will Bain looks back on the history of trade between the two great nati…

1 week ago

Taking Stock: Can Big Tech rivals be trusted to develop safe AI?

AI: Existential threat or billion-dollar opportunity? The increasingly loud and often stark warnings from inside the tech industry - about the danger…

1 week, 3 days ago

Power Players: Does Xbox have a future?

Xbox is 25 years old and faces some of its biggest challenges yet. As cloud gaming grows and the AI boom reshapes the technology industry, even Xbox …

1 week, 4 days ago

Can we control AI?

Artificial intelligence is developing faster than many experts predicted, bringing extraordinary opportunities as well as growing concerns. Some of t…

1 week, 5 days ago