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 haberd...
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20 of 470 episodesBuilding 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...
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...
The Tree Trade
Politicians keep promising more trees – seen as good for the environment and for fighting climate change. Trees are also big business sustai...
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 establish...
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 conversat...
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...
The Gatwick Effect
The coronavirus pandemic and the associated global economic lockdown have had a dramatic impact on businesses across the UK, perhaps none mo...
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...
Oil Shock 2020
The oil price has crashed - for a while some producers were even paying customers to take it away. It's like no oil shock the industry has e...
Adapt to Survive
2020 hasn't been good for British business - certainly not since Covid-19 showed up. The global pandemic and the lockdown imposed to try to...
Economic Recovery in the USA
With the highest Covid19 death toll in the world, and 26 million Americans claiming unemployment insurance, the US economy has taken a massi...
Economic lessons from pandemics past
In the 14th century the world was devastated by plague, known as 'The Black Death', in the 20th century a deadly form of influenza struck in...
Working From Home
Since the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ began, vast numbers of people have been toiling away at home for the first time: converting living rooms and b...
Could carbon offsetting save the world’s forests?
Honey bees, cow dung and mulch - the company in Zimbabwe that is protecting the forests in order to offset carbon emissions. As Charlotte As...
Supply Chains vs Covid-19
Ruth Alexander examines whether the complex global web of supply chains can hold up under the enormous pressure of the coronavirus pandemic....
Indonesia’s new capital
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is sinking, and struggling with traffic and pollution. The government’s solution? To build a new capital on the...
Making fashion sustainable
Fashion is a hugely polluting industry and is under enormous pressure to become more sustainable. From the way cotton is grown, to the use o...
Hydrogen: The answer to Climate Change?
Hydrogen is a volatile gas with an image problem, but hydrogen evangelists think this could be the ‘magic molecule’ which will solve the wor...
Is the UK up for sale?
Jaguar Land Rover, Cadbury, Weetabix are but some of the many British brands now owned by foreign corporations. The UK has one of the highes...
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