The World of Business

Insights into the business world - featuring content from BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, and a

Episodes

Total: 471

Still in Business

2020/9/24

For the final programme of the series, John Murphy returns to a selection of businesses that have co

Building Back Better

2020/9/17

The pandemic and the resulting recession have led to widespread calls to recognise that we now have

Wine, Widgets and Brexit

2020/9/10

As Brexit talks between the European Union and the UK got under way earlier this year, before anyone

The Tree Trade

2020/9/3

Politicians keep promising more trees – seen as good for the environment and for fighting climate ch

The March of Robots

2020/8/27

Robots and Artificial Intelligence have been moving into our workplaces for years. But is now the ti

Black Business Matters

2020/8/20

Sparked by the Black Lives Matter protests around the world that followed the death of George Floyd,

Keep up at the Back!

2020/8/13

The UK fitness industry employs twenty thousand people and is worth an estimated £5 billion to the e

The Gatwick Effect

2020/8/6

The coronavirus pandemic and the associated global economic lockdown have had a dramatic impact on b

The Jobs Challenge

2020/7/30

As the UK emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, millions of employees are still furloughed – either

Oil Shock 2020

2020/5/24

The oil price has crashed - for a while some producers were even paying customers to take it away. I

Adapt to Survive

2020/5/14

2020 hasn't been good for British business - certainly not since Covid-19 showed up. The global pand

With the highest Covid19 death toll in the world, and 26 million Americans claiming unemployment ins

In the 14th century the world was devastated by plague, known as 'The Black Death', in the 20th cent

Working From Home

2020/4/16

Since the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ began, vast numbers of people have been toiling away at home for the f

Honey bees, cow dung and mulch - the company in Zimbabwe that is protecting the forests in order to

Ruth Alexander examines whether the complex global web of supply chains can hold up under the enormo

Indonesia’s new capital

2020/1/25

Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is sinking, and struggling with traffic and pollution. The government’s

Fashion is a hugely polluting industry and is under enormous pressure to become more sustainable. Fr

Hydrogen is a volatile gas with an image problem, but hydrogen evangelists think this could be the ‘

Is the UK up for sale?

2020/1/16

Jaguar Land Rover, Cadbury, Weetabix are but some of the many British brands now owned by foreign co