Podcast Episodes

Women and NFTs

Non-fungible tokens - or NFTs as they’re known - are already big business, whether you’ve heard about them or not. But when it comes to those creating them, there’s a huge gender disparity.

We hear fr…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Sanctions against Russia take bite

How the latest penalties for invading Ukraine will hit Russia, and may also spill over into the world economy.

Ed Butler explores what the democratic world hopes to achieve with their targeting of the…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Streaming wars: Survival of the smallest?

The multibillion dollar streaming industry is thriving, but too much choice makes it a fragmented landscape. In order to survive, the smallest companies might have the edge. Entertainment reporter Ka…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

How will sanctions impact Russia?

A series of governments on both sides of the Atlantic have announced punitive measures in response to Russia ordering troops into rebel-held regions of eastern Ukraine. But how much of an impact will…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

The business of seed banks

Increasingly scientists are using genetic material from wild plants to make agricultural crops more resilient to climate change.

To find out how, Rebecca Kesby heads to the Millennium Seed Bank for t…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Fighting homelessness in Sacramento

California's state capital suffers from a serious shortage of housing, like much of the Golden State. Small informal encampments along riverbanks or the side of the road are a common sight.

We hear fr…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Business Weekly

In Business Weekly, we look at the implications of the European Court of Justice clearing the way for the European Union to cut billions of euros in funding to Poland and Hungary. Judges dismissed a …

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Debt relief: Who should foot the bill?

There’s a credit crunch facing dozens of the world's poorest countries: billions of dollars are now owed and some countries simply won't manage the repayments. So who should foot the bill? We speak w…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Japan’s closed borders

Two years on from the start of the pandemic and most visitors are still banned from Japan. We take a look at why the world’s third largest economy has one of the strictest border controls in the worl…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Sickening in America

Have US pharmaceutical companies created a web of disinformation to boost their profits?

That's the accusation of John Abramson, an academic at Harvard Medical School. In an extended interview with th…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago