The World of Business Podcast
Insights into the business world - featuring content from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's In Business programme, and also Global Business from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service.
Episodes to download
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Breakthrough Designs
Sat 22 Jun 2013
Peter Day visits the Design of the Year Awards in London and finds how modern design...
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St Gallen
Sat 8 Jun 2013
Peter Day attends the 43 annual St Gallen Symposium - a student organised gathering of...
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3D Printing/New Dimensions
Sat 1 Jun 2013
Peter Day hears from the pioneers of the rapidly-advancing world of digital manufacturing
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Strike up the Broadband
Sat 25 May 2013
The internet is fast becoming as important to firms as electricity or running water.
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Vorsprung durch Technik or Universitat?
Thu 23 May 2013
Experts worry that Germany's economy is running out of steam. Where is German they ask...
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New Dimensions
Thu 16 May 2013
Manufacturing is evolving for the 21st century. Peter Day hears from some pioneers in...
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Feeding the Nine Billion
Sat 11 May 2013
Peter Day asks a panel of experts how we ensure there is enough food to feed an world...
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Potash of Gold
Thu 25 Apr 2013
Peter Day reports on controversial plans to dig for polyhalite - a type of potash that...
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Skoll World Forum: Disrupting Big Finance
Sat 20 Apr 2013
Peter Day presents a debate about disrupting big finance at the annual Skoll World Forum.
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Battle of the Business Schools
Sat 13 Apr 2013
Peter Day examines the rivalry between two Boston business schools - Harvard and MIT.
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The Sick Note
Thu 11 Apr 2013
From next year a government-backed scheme will try to help ill people get back to work...
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Productivity Puzzle
Thu 4 Apr 2013
The UK economy is in a quandry: employment is rising but the productivity of its is...
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Race Against the Machine
Sat 30 Mar 2013
Peter Day talks with the authors of the book Race Against the Machine and finds out of...
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Mahindra&Mahindra
Sat 23 Mar 2013
Peter Day talks to Anand Mahindra, the CEO of Indian group of companies about how that...
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India Identity
Sat 16 Mar 2013
India is attempting to give each citizen get an individual identity. It’s the...
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India Economy
Sat 9 Mar 2013
The Indian economy, once one of the world’s fastest growing, is stalling.
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Ageing in Japan
Sat 2 Mar 2013
Japan is the fastest ageing country in the world. As Peter Day reports, this is a big...
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Growing Old
Sat 23 Feb 2013
As baby boomers turn 65, many countries are growing old. As Peter Day reports, this of...
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Jeremy Grantham
Sat 16 Feb 2013
Peter Day talks with the prominent investment manager Jeremy Grantham about managing a...
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Red Hook Brooklyn
Sat 9 Feb 2013
Peter Day takes a walk through one street in Red Hook Brooklyn to find out how the is...
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The Art of Strategy
Sat 2 Feb 2013
Peter Day talks about business strategy with the former head of Proctor and Gamble, AG...
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The New Normal
Sat 19 Jan 2013
Peter Day travels to the British Midlands, the country's manufacturing heartland, to...
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Gas Leak
Thu 17 Jan 2013
Russia's giant energy company Gazprom has the biggest reserves of natural gas in the...
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Starting Young
Thu 10 Jan 2013
Leave college, start a business. That is the idea behind a high-powered new project 30...
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Sounds Familiar
Thu 3 Jan 2013
After years of promise, voice recognition is at last becoming a significant method of...
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2013 Look Ahead
Sat 29 Dec 2012
Peter Day talks to three experts from the field of trends, technology and leadership...
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The Business of Kindness
Thu 27 Dec 2012
Random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in surprising ways. Peter Day talks...
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The Business of Kindness
Sat 22 Dec 2012
Random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in surprising ways. Peter Day talks...
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Can The Co-op Cope?
Thu 20 Dec 2012
Britain's venerable Cooperative movement is 168 years old, and now it is poised to a...
