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The World of Business
Insights into the business world - featuring content from BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, and also Global Business from the BBC World Service.
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471 EpisodenStill in Business
For the final programme of the series, John Murphy returns to a selection of businesses that have come through this far. A fabric and haberdashery sho...
Building Back Better
The pandemic and the resulting recession have led to widespread calls to recognise that we now have a once in a generation opportunity to re-think how...
Wine, Widgets and Brexit
As Brexit talks between the European Union and the UK got under way earlier this year, before anyone was using the word “pandemic”, Caroline Bayley be...
The Tree Trade
Politicians keep promising more trees – seen as good for the environment and for fighting climate change. Trees are also big business sustaining vital...
The March of Robots
Robots and Artificial Intelligence have been moving into our workplaces for years. But is now the time that they will become fully established and tak...
Black Business Matters
Sparked by the Black Lives Matter protests around the world that followed the death of George Floyd, companies are wading into the conversation on rac...
Keep up at the Back!
The UK fitness industry employs twenty thousand people and is worth an estimated £5 billion to the economy. But - like most other industries - it shut...
The Gatwick Effect
The coronavirus pandemic and the associated global economic lockdown have had a dramatic impact on businesses across the UK, perhaps none more so than...
The Jobs Challenge
As the UK emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, millions of employees are still furloughed – either fully or part-time – with most of their salaries...
Oil Shock 2020
The oil price has crashed - for a while some producers were even paying customers to take it away. It's like no oil shock the industry has ever seen b...
Adapt to Survive
2020 hasn't been good for British business - certainly not since Covid-19 showed up. The global pandemic and the lockdown imposed to try to fight it h...
Economic Recovery in the USA
With the highest Covid19 death toll in the world, and 26 million Americans claiming unemployment insurance, the US economy has taken a massive hit. Bu...
Economic lessons from pandemics past
In the 14th century the world was devastated by plague, known as 'The Black Death', in the 20th century a deadly form of influenza struck infecting ar...
Working From Home
Since the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ began, vast numbers of people have been toiling away at home for the first time: converting living rooms and bedrooms in...
Could carbon offsetting save the world’s forests?
Honey bees, cow dung and mulch - the company in Zimbabwe that is protecting the forests in order to offset carbon emissions. As Charlotte Ashton wrest...
Supply Chains vs Covid-19
Ruth Alexander examines whether the complex global web of supply chains can hold up under the enormous pressure of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Indonesia’s new capital
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is sinking, and struggling with traffic and pollution. The government’s solution? To build a new capital on the island of...
Making fashion sustainable
Fashion is a hugely polluting industry and is under enormous pressure to become more sustainable. From the way cotton is grown, to the use of syntheti...
Hydrogen: The answer to Climate Change?
Hydrogen is a volatile gas with an image problem, but hydrogen evangelists think this could be the ‘magic molecule’ which will solve the world’s air p...
Is the UK up for sale?
Jaguar Land Rover, Cadbury, Weetabix are but some of the many British brands now owned by foreign corporations. The UK has one of the highest rates of...
Australia’s Coalface
Australia is stubbornly sticking to providing much of its power through coal. While many countries around the world are eschewing fossil fuels, (beca...
Zimbabwe's Food Crisis: Can Old Crops Fix New Problems?
Every day people dig into sadza, a maize based meal, but there’s a problem. Zimbabwe’s getting much drier and maize can’t cope. Crop failures have par...
Germany’s Energy Transition
Germany has long been considered a leader in renewable energy – a model even for others to follow with its subsidies for wind and solar. Householders...
Selling Britain
Whatever happens in British politics, Britain's reputation has changed. What does this mean for its global business image? Chris Bowlby discovers what...
Clean Cooking in Rwanda
More than seventy percent of households in Rwanda cook over wooden and charcoal fires. This means women often sit for hours every day in smoky conditi...
The Business of Beethoven
"Beethoven's arms were bigger than the piano" says concert pianist Stephen Hough at his Steinway. "I sense him pushing at every moment - as if he's in...
The pub is dead! Long live the micropub!
Since 2001 the UK has lost a quarter of its pubs. They've shut their doors for good. High taxes, high prices, supermarket competition, even the smokin...
Keeping the Lights On
As Britain’s sources of electricity change, along with significant changes in demand, how will the lights stay on? The major power blackout that hit t...
What is the value of women’s work?
Iceland has taken radical measures to reduce its gender pay gap. These aren't just about equalising pay when men and women do the same job but when th...
Belarus: Harvesting the whirlwind
The irradiated lands around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor were large, prosperous, and lively collective farms until the reactor exploded in 1986. Seve...
Can Liberian rubber bounce back?
A victim of the “resource curse”, Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, in spite of being rich in natural resources. Rubber is one of...
How Politics Broke up with Business
Why have politicians gone from cosying up to businesses, to turning a deaf ear to their concerns? Jeremy Schwartz – a CEO himself – finds that the lov...
Flying Green
Flying, for many of us, is now routine. For a few of us it is a weekly, maybe even daily, event. At the same time global protests, concerned with the...
The Business of Clicks
Online retail spending has increased more than four fold in the last ten years - it now accounts for almost one in five pounds we spend shopping.
India’s fashion industry
India has emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing fashion markets and is expected to touch $60 billion by 2022, which will make it the sixth lar...
Managing Volunteers: Free and Easy?
Twenty million Brits give their time for free each year. From the National Trust to the hospice coffee morning, the Samaritans to the local football c...
Berries Galore!
Strawberries at Christmas? No problem! And as cheap as ever? Yes, of course! Many of us have become used to buying whatever fruit and vegetables we wa...
Who are Huawei?
Chinese technology company, Huawei, is the world’s biggest supplier of network telecoms equipment, and with a research budget of up to $20 billion, it...
Business Making an Impact
Climate-change scientists have warned that the clock is ticking, environmental campaigners are blocking the streets, but until now the world of busine...
The Berlin Airport Fiasco
One thing Germany does well, you might assume, is infrastructure and transport. Think again. For Global Business on the BBC World Service, Chris Bowlb...