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The Bottom Line Episodes

  1. 16/01/2025

    Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show, with insight from the people at the top.

  2. Decisions That Made Me

    Evan Davis speaks with some of the UK's most exciting leaders and entrepreneurs.

  3. 09/01/2025

    Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show, with insight from the people at the top.

  4. Decisions That Made Me

    Evan Davis speaks with some of the UK's most exciting leaders and entrepreneurs

  5. Ideas: How To Turn Your Dreams Into Business Reality

    The inspiration, the pitch, the timing - what makes a business idea live or die?

  6. Marketing: How Effective Is Fear In Advertising?

    Why do advertising agencies use fear to get us to part with our money?

  7. Google: The Couple That Took On The Tech Giant

    How a British small business cost the tech giant more than Β£2bn.

  8. Evacuation: How to Rescue a Business From a War Zone

    Can you get staff out of danger and still keep the show on the road?

  9. Debt: Do Collectors Deserve Their Bad Reputation?

    The reality of a profession we never want to encounter, but couldn't do without.

  10. Side Hustles: What's It Like Balancing Two Jobs At Once?

    Everyone seems to have one... We find out the truth about side hustles.

  11. New Tech: How Smart Is the Smart Energy System?

    The new home tech that could be key to keeping the lights on as we switch to renewables.

  12. The Bottom Line (unofficial) Business Awards

    Debating the highs and lows of the business landscape in the last year.

  13. The business of private schools

    The business of private education: how it works, how much money is made and where it goes.

  14. Being the new broom

    Stepping into the top role: learning from business leaders.

  15. The Business of Dying

    Final farewells - how does the industry work?

  16. Is copyright going wrong?

    Is copyright law working to secure returns for creators?

  17. Is work getting more intense?

    Has a rise in flexible working lead to an increase in overwork, stress and burnout?

  18. Hype

    Why do some brands go viral, and how much hype is too much?

  19. Electric Cars: Made in China?

    Could the UK soon be awash with cheap EVs from the industry's global superpower?

  21. In the eye of a crisis

    Evan makes up crisis management scenarios to see how CEOs handle a business emergency.

  22. Rethinking retirement

    Should we think about stepping down the career ladder as we approach pension age?

  23. Where's the life in nightlife?

    Why are so many nightclubs closing, and what might replace them?

  24. Navigating the Say-Do Gap

    How do businesses cope with the misalignment between consumers' intentions and actions?

  25. Feedback

    Tips on how to dish it out, and how to take it.

  26. Meat

    We're told we need to eat a lot less of it, so how is the industry responding?

  27. Many unhappy returns

    What really happens when you buy something online and then send it back?

  28. Bringing your 'whole self' to work

    Should we share our personal politics, beliefs and vulnerabilities with colleagues?

  29. Meetings

    In the last programme of the series, on the agenda is meetings. With Evan Davis.

  30. Blockbuster drugs

    How to come up with a billion-dollar medicine, and who pays for it.

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