Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBusiness Daily meets: football agent Kees Vos
It's transfer deadline day for football's most competitive league - the Premier League - when clubs can add players to their squad who were previousl…
2 years, 1 month ago
Is it getting too hot to work?
As temperatures rise, productivity falls.
Extreme global temperatures are draining tens of billions of dollars in economic productivity every year fro…
2 years, 1 month ago
The short-term rental clamp down
Cities and countries across the world are bringing in measures to restrict the type of lets popularised by companies like Airbnb and Vrbo.
The regulat…
2 years, 1 month ago
Have Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?
Chocolate is very important to Switzerland’s economy: with more than 200,000 metric tonnes produced each year, sales are worth almost $2 billion.
But…
2 years, 1 month ago
Business Daily meets: Brent Wisner
The US-based lawyer and managing partner at litigation firm Wisner Baum, in Los Angeles, has made his name taking on large pharmaceutical companies i…
2 years, 1 month ago
Remittances: sending money back home
Each year millions of Indians go abroad to study and work.
A lot of them end up sending money back home, a transfer known as remittances.
The money i…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why is Chinese EV giant BYD moving into Turkey?
We’re in Manisa on Turkey’s west coast.
It’s one of the country’s manufacturing centres for home appliances like washers, dryers, and refrigerators. …
2 years, 1 month ago
Reconstructing Chile’s botanical gardens
In February 2024, huge forest fires destroyed 90% of the land and plant species. Workers were killed and homes destroyed.
We travel to the seaside tow…
2 years, 1 month ago
The cost of the Red Sea crisis
We catch up on the ongoing disruption to the shipping industry after Houthi attacks on commercial vessels.
The Iran-backed group said it was targeting…
2 years, 1 month ago
Business Daily meets: Ginny Gilder
Ginny Gilder won silver as a US Olympic rower in 1984. Today, she's a multimillionaire owner of a women's professional basketball team.
How did succes…
2 years, 2 months ago