Podcast Episodes

Reinventing recycling in Louisiana

Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz decided to start a recycling project in New Orleans after realising the city sent all its glass to landfill. Now t…

3 years, 5 months ago

The cost of rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

In this episode of Business Daily we get on board The Ocean Viking, a migrant rescue boat operated by the non-governmental organisations SOS Méditerr…

3 years, 5 months ago

Africa Super League – new dawn for football?

Confederation of African Football, CAF, with the backing of FIFA, has launched a new Super League aimed at injecting much-needed funds to clubs on th…

3 years, 5 months ago

Business Daily Meets: Nico Rosberg

Theo Leggett meets Nico Rosberg, who found fame and fortune in the fossil-fuelled world of F1, but is now reinventing himself as a champion of green …

3 years, 5 months ago

Business Daily Meets: Boyan Slat

How do you clean the world's oceans of plastic? 10 years ago, when he was just 18, Dutchman Boyan Slat thought he knew how to do it, and set out his …

3 years, 5 months ago

Rebuilding lives after flooding in Pakistan

Many communities in Pakistan were completely destroyed when vast areas of the country were hit by catastrophic flooding this summer. 33 million peopl…

3 years, 5 months ago

The Morality of Machines

From search engines to chatbots to driverless taxis – artificial intelligence is increasingly a part of our daily lives. But is it always ethical? …

3 years, 5 months ago

Africa’s Middlemen: Rent-seekers or cultural brokers?

Middlemen are intermediaries who facilitate business interactions for a commission, but in Africa their role is more complex. Africa's middlemen divi…

3 years, 5 months ago

How much is it costing fans to go to Qatar?

About 1.5 million fans, a little more than half the population of Qatar, are expected to arrive in the tiny Gulf state for the 2022 World Cup.

Two we…

3 years, 6 months ago

Women in business in Qatar

How easy is it for a woman to start and run a business in Qatar?

In the past few years, there have been changes to the constitution and laws which ha…

3 years, 6 months ago