Podcast Episodes

How to fix the US budget

Twice in 2023, the American government faced the prospect of having to shut down because politicians in congress couldn’t agree on a budget to fund i…

2 years, 2 months ago

Business Daily meets: Kathryn Jacob

For 70 years, Pearl & Dean has been at the forefront of cinema advertising in the UK. Its CEO, Kathryn Jacob has been leading the company for 18 of t…

2 years, 2 months ago

Being unbanked

How easy is it to open a bank account in your country?

Around the world, 1.4 billion people can’t get a bank account, and two-thirds of them are in l…

2 years, 2 months ago

Tricking the brain – are holograms the future?

The use of these endlessly flexible 3D images is increasing rapidly.

Not just in entertainment, but in medicine, education, design, defence and more…

2 years, 2 months ago

Living off-grid: Scaling up

Alastair Leithead and his wife Ana moved to Portugal during the Covid pandemic. They live off-grid, meaning they have no access to mains electricity …

2 years, 2 months ago

Living off-grid in Portugal

In the first of a two part series, we're in the Alentejo region where people are buying land and empty properties in an area without power or water s…

2 years, 2 months ago

Business Daily Meets: Dr Yasmeen Lari

Pakistan's first female architect came out of retirement to help rebuild her country after the 2005 earthquake.

Now she's helping communities devastat…

2 years, 2 months ago

Turkey adjusts to ‘bitter medicine’ of high rates

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heard Turkish voters back in May when they said they wanted change in the economy.

So, he appointed a new finance mini…

2 years, 2 months ago

Battling snakes to gather Brazil nuts

Despite the name, Bolivia is actually the world's biggest exporter of Brazil nuts.

We travel to the hot and humid north of the country to look at the …

2 years, 2 months ago

Was 2023 a bad year for IPOs?

When private companies around the world want to raise cash, they can do so by starting a process to list on a stock exchange. This is known as an IPO…

2 years, 2 months ago