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Despite cabinet departures, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is sticking to her Brexit plan. Whilst some big British businesses are coming out in favour of the proposals, we gauge reaction from elsewhere on the continent with Ian Talbot, chief executive of the Irish Chambers of Commerce, and Ilja Nothnagel, head of international trade at the German Chamber of Commerce.

And we have a report from the 麻豆约拍鈥檚 Rob Young, who went to the UK's south coast to find out how cross-border trade is likely to be affected should Britain leave the EU without securing a deal by the end of March 2019.
Also in the programme, as scientists redefine the exact mass of a kilogram, from a physical object to a scientific formula, Ananyo Bhattacharya of The Economist explains the background to the move.

One of the most controversial industrial projects ever built in the UK, the THORP nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield, is closing down after nearly a quarter of a century of operations, but the decommissioning process is expected to take several decades more. The 麻豆约拍鈥檚 Theo Leggett explains why.

Dan Beckerman is the president and CEO of AEG which owns, operates or is affiliated with over 120 of the world's biggest venues, sports centres and entertainment districts. Kai Ryssdal of our partner programme Marketplace caught up with Dan in downtown LA, for a tour of the famed Staples Center.

And finally, plenty of us have dreamed of giving it all up and escaping to renovate a chateau in the middle of the countryside. Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree did just that, and they join to talk about their adventure.

Plus we take a look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Lisa Abramowicz of Bloomberg Markets in New York, and Lianna Brinded of Yahoo Finance UK in London.

And all through the show we鈥檒l be joined by Robert Milliken, correspondent with The Economist in Sydney.