Global Business: Steinway
For more than 150 years, Steinway and Sons have been building handmade pianos to please the ear of the most discerning musicians. Their sound fills concert halls around the world. Why? Is it simply be...
3 Sep 201526min
Global Business: Graphene
It would take an elephant balanced on the tip of a pencil to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness cling film. That's the description those promoting this new wonder material like to use to ...
27 Aug 201526min
Global Business: Companies without managers
Who's your boss? Peter Day explores how three different companies, in three different countries, do business without managers. Who hires and fires? And how do you get a pay rise? He asks how these rad...
20 Aug 201526min
A Night at the Opera
Opera is an expensive art form. It receives millions of pounds of public money. Can that be justified? Peter Day gets a range of operatic experiences - from top opera companies, to pub performers and ...
13 Aug 201526min
In Business: Driverless Cars
As the race to develop driverless cars hots up around the world, the UK is determined not to be left in the slow lane. Government money is being invested to help test vehicles and 'pods' over the next...
6 Aug 201527min
Global Business: Entrepreneurs Explain
Remarkable start-up stories of entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia, Israel and New Zealand.
30 Jul 201526min
MisBehaving with Richard Thaler
What exactly is economics? Science or art? An explanation of our society based on observable, demonstrable law or is it an attempt to systematise the unknowable: the mysteries of the human mind? Pete...
25 Jun 201526min
Global Business: The Circular Economy
As Dame Ellen MacArthur circumnavigated the globe she got first-hand knowledge of the finite nature of the world’s resources. When she retired from sailing she created a foundation to promote the conc...
18 Jun 201526min
