The World of Business Podcast
Insights into the business world - featuring content from BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, and also Global Business from the BBC World Service.
Episodes to download
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The pub is dead! Long live the micropub!
Thursday
British pubs have been closing down but a new type of pub - the micropub - is popping up.
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Keeping the Lights On
Thu 28 Nov 2019
How can Britain ensure a consistent supply of electricity when its sources are changing?
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What is the value of women’s work?
Sat 26 Oct 2019
Iceland has a radical approach to the gender pay gap. What lessons could others learn?
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Can Liberian rubber bounce back?
Sat 12 Oct 2019
Liberia is one of the poorest countries yet rich in natural resources. Can rubber help?
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How Politics Broke up with Business
Sun 29 Sep 2019
Why have politicians gone from cosying up to business, to turning a deaf ear?
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Flying Green
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Can aviation become sustainable? Katie Prescott asks if a tech fix can be found.
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India’s fashion industry
Sat 7 Sep 2019
India has emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing fashion markets
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Managing Volunteers: Free and Easy?
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Twenty million Brits give their time for free each year, but is managing volunteers easy?
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Who are Huawei?
Sat 29 Jun 2019
How has Huawei, one of the world's most controversial companies, become so powerful?
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Business Making an Impact
Sat 22 Jun 2019
How businesses are changing the way they work by focusing on their impact on us all.
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Plastic Backlash: The Business Response
Thu 23 May 2019
How are businesses responding to the public backlash against plastic packaging?
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Getting Hired
Thu 2 May 2019
Lesley Curwen looks at the fast-changing process of getting hired for a job
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Green Shoots: growing food in UAE’s deserts
Thu 25 Apr 2019
The United Arab Emirates plans to grow vegetables in the desert.
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Behind the Facades
Thu 18 Apr 2019
How the changing relationship between landlord and tenant is reshaping our high street.
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The Irresistible Rise of eSports
Thu 11 Apr 2019
Sport, but not as you know it. The irresistible rise of competitive gaming or Esports.
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Portugal’s Ocean Economy
Sat 9 Mar 2019
Portugal with its historic links to the sea is now investing heavily in the Ocean Economy
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Uruguay: the World’s Marijuana Pioneers
Sat 23 Feb 2019
Uruguay legalised recreational cannabis five years ago - so how's business?
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Brexit: Germany Gets Ready
Sat 16 Feb 2019
How are companies in Hamburg in Germany preparing for Britain's departure from the EU?
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Koreans in South Africa
Sat 26 Jan 2019
How South Korean business is using South Africa as a springboard to the whole of Africa.
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Beyond the Barbed Wire - Cyber Security in the UK
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Can the UK become a world leader in making the internet safer?
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Potholes - the road to the future
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Potholes - the hidden costs, and opportunities, lurking in our roads
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