Podcast Episodes

Why men don’t want to work any more

As many as 7 million Americans who could work, aren’t. These are people who have dropped out of the workforce - they have given up on finding a jo…

3 years, 6 months ago

Greensill: What went wrong?

Greensill Capital was a UK based finance firm and a darling of investors which made its money by lending to businesses. It went into administration …

3 years, 6 months ago

Will a multibillion dollar project get Americans back on trains?

New York’s Penn Station is the busiest transport hub in the United States - as many as 650,000 people pass through it in a day. But this intercity hu…

3 years, 6 months ago

Mahira Khan on Pakistan's mental health emergency

In this episode we explore mental health provision in Pakistan. Pakistan has a population of more than 200 million people but only around 500 working…

3 years, 6 months ago

Can a giant seaweed farm help curb climate change?

A British businessman has come up with a bold plan to turn the floating seaweed sargassum into cash, and tackle global warming at the same time. In…

3 years, 6 months ago

Rent-a-Robot

The use of robots in North American workplaces has increased by 40% since the start of the pandemic and the small to medium sized businesses, which n…

3 years, 6 months ago

Space: The final food frontier

Is space the final frontier for meat grown from animal stem cells?

Elizabeth Hotson asks whether growing steaks under micro gravity conditions could h…

3 years, 6 months ago

How to quit

When women's tennis world number one Ash Barty suddenly announced in March 2022 that she was retiring from tennis, it was huge shock.

Barty, a three t…

3 years, 6 months ago

Getting backpackers to return to Australia

Now that borders have opened up post pandemic, backpackers have been slow to return to Australia.

Despite a number of initiatives, the number of trave…

3 years, 7 months ago

Why food could be the future of fashion

Fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries – more than half of everything we wear is still made from plastic.

In the search for more sus…

3 years, 7 months ago