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Tech and AI: Trailer
Season 2 Episode 1
Do you know your Blockchain from your Bitcoin, or your Virtual reality from your Augmented Reality? Are you clueless about AI but are worried it migh…
2 years, 11 months ago
Preview: Toast - Google Glass
From the team behind the hit Radio 4 series Sliced Bread, this is Toast. You can find more episodes in the Sliced Bread feed only on BBC Sounds, or b…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Economy: 15. Energy Market
Season 1 Episode 15
The rising cost of living really brought home how those big, global economic shocks can mean some pretty bad bumps for our individual finances. Proba…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Economy: 14. Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Season 1 Episode 14
The cost of living crisis is putting more pressure on more people - but what happens when that pressure becomes too much, and is bankruptcy always a …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Economy: 13. National Debt
Season 1 Episode 13
Politicians talk about government debt a lot. When Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to tackle Britain's five most pressing problems, he included …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Economy: 12. Credit
Season 1 Episode 12
Collectively, our individual financial decisions have a big impact on what the wider economy does. That includes how we manage our own money, includ…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Economy: 11. Pricing and Discounting
Season 1 Episode 11
On one hand, we’ve all experienced the things we buy getting more expensive, from the price of fuel to a tub of butter. On the other hand, retailers…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Economy: 10. Inequality
Season 1 Episode 10
Why are the rich, rich and the poor, poor, and was it always this way? Tim Harford explains what’s happened to inequality over the last 100 years in …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Economy: 9. International Trade and Currency Markets
Season 1 Episode 9
The reason we can eat pineapples and sell aeroplane parts. But why might the value of the pound fall and what does that mean if it does? Tim Harford …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Economy: 8. Pensions
Season 1 Episode 8
Why is it so hard to save for retirement? Will future generations even get a pension? Why is the pension age rising and what is the state pension age…
3 years, 7 months ago