The World of Business Podcast
1) Future Pharma
The global pharmaceutical industry is facing some difficult strategic choices. As the costs of Research and Development rise, other more reliable revenue streams look increasingly attractive. In thi...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Still 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 shop, a fruit farmer and a micro-pub. What’s their st...Show More
3) 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 we put the economy back together again. Research ...Show More
4) 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 began following two companies which both export to B...Show More
5) 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 rural jobs. So will lots of new planting keep eve...Show More
6) 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 take over some jobs entirely? Is the march of the rob...Show More
7) 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 racial inequality. With a focus on diversity in busin...Show More
8) 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 down overnight in March. Some teachers and traine...Show More
9) 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 on the aviation industry and airports like Gatwic...Show More
10) 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 paid by the government. But how many of them reall...Show More