Podcast Episodes

Eurovision: Making money out of something I love

The Eurovision Song Contest has transformed itself from a TV show experiment to the world's largest live music event.

160 million people are expected…

2 years, 1 month ago

Resurrecting ‘ghost’ whisky distilleries

In Scotland in the 1980s, a slump in the whisky market brought about the closure of some of the country's most iconic distilleries. These sites becom…

2 years, 1 month ago

The trouble with live music

Elton John, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran - all artists who've had sell-out world tours in recent years.

And new markets, such as India, are b…

2 years, 1 month ago

What hope for Kosovo's economy?

Ed Butler travels to Kosovo to find out what the prospects are for this young, ethnically divided population.

After Ukraine, it's Europe's poorest re…

2 years, 1 month ago

Meet the trailblazers: the female bike mechanics

Why are so few women making a living from fixing bicycles?

Meet Sharvari, Belinda and Brenna, three female bike mechanics from different corners of th…

2 years, 1 month ago

Can the Tour de France Femmes deliver?

Over its long history women have been mostly excluded from the Tour de France. Until recently.

In 2022, after a long campaign by some of female cyclin…

2 years, 1 month ago

Tourism cashing in on the ‘pink dollar’

The 'pink pound' or 'pink dollar' is believed to be worth billions of dollars, and tourism is one sector looking to benefit.

We find out how the indus…

2 years, 1 month ago

How can recycling be profitable?

Ireland has just launched a scheme to charge a deposit on bottles and cans which is refunded when consumers return them to recycling machines in supe…

2 years, 1 month ago

Business Daily meets: Picsart CEO Hovhannes Avoyan

We speak to the Armenian entrepreneur behind the popular photo editing app used by millions on Instagram, and by businesses too.

Mr Avoyan tells us a…

2 years, 2 months ago

Modest fashion: Inside a $300bn industry

As modest fashion week starts in Istanbul, we look at the growth of this area of the fashion industry.

Long considered a faith-based choice, it is gai…

2 years, 2 months ago