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Last broadcast on Sat, 30 Oct 2010, 04:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
How do you survive the political firestorm of making deep cuts? We speak to the famously tough former Finance Minster and then Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin, who eliminated the country's deficit in just four years.
In times of economic austerity can entrepreneurism flourish? Investment bank Goldman Sachs certainly believes so and has launched a scheme it thinks will help. But will it work? We speak to Lord Graham Kirkham, a supporter of the scheme, and Alex Pratt, an entrepreneur who argues tough times offer the best business opportunities.
Economic recovery may not be the only concern for the Government. It appears that Britain is a long way down the world rankings when it comes to optimism about jobs and future economic performance. So is it possible to plot the relationship between happiness and economic growth? We speak to philosopher Julian Baggini.
And the price of power seems to be taking its toll on the Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister recently. Andrew Grimson, the Daily Telegraph's parliamentary sketch writer, discusses Nick Clegg's rather eventful week in the Commons.
CURRENT READING OF GUESTS AND THE PROGRAMME TEAM
Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada: History, Aboriginal, work and Africa related documents.
Lord Kirkham, founder of DFS: The Crowthers of Bankdam by Thomas Armstrong
Alex Pratt, entrepreneur: The E-Myth by Michael E Gerber
Julian Baggini, philosopher: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? by Eric Kaufmann
Andrew Gimson, Daily Telegraph Parliamentary sketch writer: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Team Reading:
Freedom by Jonathan Frantzen
Cromwell, our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
Broadcasts
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Fri 29 Oct 201012:32
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Fri 29 Oct 201016:32
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Sat 30 Oct 201000:32
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Sat 30 Oct 201004:32
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