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Big Energy Bill Hikes Coming: Should You Fix Now, Even If You’re Already Fixed?
Martin explains what the future holds for your energy bills.
21 May 2026,·59 mins
Cool profits in a hot market
As the UK sizzles, Sean Farrington hears how A/C sales have spiked alongside temperatures
27 May 2026,·52 mins
Carers' Pensions and Face-to-Face Banking
How caring for a loved one can impact your pension.
23 May 2026,·25 mins
#40 Next CEO: The Crisis Facing Entry-Level Employment
Next CEO, Lord Wolfson: Applications for every vacancies in Next's shops have doubled.
25 May 2026,·29 mins
The Iran war oil shock: Is there worse to come?
The Strait of Hormuz is closed but fears of $150 oil have so far proved unfounded. Why?
27 May 2026,·17 mins
Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?
Tim Harford explores healthy life expectancy, HS2 costs, VAT cuts and his marathon time
27 May 2026,·28 mins
BP sack boss over 'bullying' behaviour
Oil Giant BP has fired its chairman over his 'bullying' behaviour
26 May 2026,·26 mins
Series 1
Coffins Full of Car Keys
Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.
29 Aug 2018,·26 mins
BBC Caring Matters Week
Pav Kaur tells Harleen Nottay how she juggles being a make-up artist and full time carer.
25 May 2026,·30 mins
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 mins
Entrepreneurs: Your Questions Answered
Three top entrepreneurs answer your questions about starting and managing a business.
05 Mar 2026,·36 mins
Episode 3: The Politics
What are the politics behind tax policy?
03 Nov 2025,·42 mins
Birds, Bees and Business - Why Nature Matters (With The Wildlife Trusts and Landsec)
Deborah's barefoot walk, The Wildlife Trusts and one of the country's biggest landlords
14 Apr 2023,·46 mins
Wills and Inheritance Tax
Financial phone-in. Paul Lewis and guests answer queries about wills and inheritance tax.
29 Apr 2015,·30 mins
Going for Growth
How might the most important idea for business change and adapt in the next decade?
31 Jan 2025,·14 mins
Cheap British Beer
The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.
15 Nov 2024,·14 mins
Episode 5
Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.
02 Aug 2024,·14 mins
When Geeks Took Over Poker
Tim Harford tells the story of Chris Ferguson, who applied game theory to poker, and won.
13 Feb 2013,·15 mins
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
How animals make us smarter – we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode
22 Jul 2021,·18 mins
The pub is dead! Long live the micropub!
British pubs have been closing down but a new type of pub - the micropub - is popping up.
15 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Cinderella
Writer Lucy Mangan turns to fairy tales in a search for literary solutions to the economy.
29 Aug 2014,·15 mins
Episode 4
Michael Robinson explores how to fix Britain's broken housing market.
24 Aug 2014,·28 mins
The Shift
Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Still in Business
How some businesses survived lockdown – at least this far.
24 Sep 2020,·28 mins
Mumbai
Hardeep tests his talents at the Mumbai Comedy Store.
07 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Is Your House TV-Ready?
How your house could end up on TV and make you money.
30 Jan 2026,·5 mins
Career changes: Taking the leap
Love Island's Jay Younger looks at the transferable skills that have helped him at work.
26 Sep 2022,·27 mins
Episode 2
Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.
04 Oct 2011,·45 mins
