Business Daily Podcast
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
Episodes to download
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How to be mediocre
Fri 28 May 2021
Not everyone can be special, so should we embrace our mediocrity?
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Dogecoin or bust
Wed 26 May 2021
Will the craze for the cryptocurrency started as a joke end in tears?
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The fight for San Francisco's Chinatown
Mon 24 May 2021
Amid anti-Asian attacks and Covid lockdowns, it's been a brutal year
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Lifting the burden of malaria
Fri 21 May 2021
A new vaccine could help eliminate the disease. What would it mean for African economies?
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Syria: Failed state or narco-state?
Wed 19 May 2021
How ten years of conflict have destroyed the country's economy
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Pandemic preparedness
Tue 18 May 2021
Michael Lewis on how America’s health system got the Covid pandemic all wrong
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What happened to driverless cars?
Mon 17 May 2021
Why hasn't the autonomous car revolution happened yet?
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Who should control the vaccines?
Fri 14 May 2021
Calls are rising for a waiver of patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines
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What is the real death toll in India?
Thu 13 May 2021
The chief scientist for the WHO acknowledges the frailty of the official numbers
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The dirty business of old car batteries
Wed 12 May 2021
Recycling lead acid batteries poses a growing health hazard in many developing countries
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Can flying go green?
Mon 10 May 2021
Paying extra to plant trees or stop deforestation may not cut your carbon footprint
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Who owns colour?
Fri 7 May 2021
The ongoing battles between scientists, artists and engineers for the rights to colour
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Electric vehicles hit the big time
Wed 5 May 2021
The car industry is preparing to go fully electric sooner than you might imagine
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Will Covid decimate India's middle class?
Tue 4 May 2021
Millions of Indians risk being thrown back into poverty by the latest coronavirus upsurge
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Making multinationals pay
Mon 3 May 2021
Will President Biden's push for a minimum global corporate tax rate succeed?
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Men and cosmetic surgery
Fri 30 Apr 2021
More men have considered cosmetic treatments during the pandemic.
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Biden's trillions
Thu 29 Apr 2021
The US president announces a massive spending plan for the US economy
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Does business travel have a future?
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Why fly when you can videoconference? That may be the lesson from Covid
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Covid in paradise
Mon 26 Apr 2021
How are small island tourist destinations coping with the shutdown of global travel?
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Big Data, conspiracy theories and ‘Magical Thinking’
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Filmmaker Adam Curtis questions the value of Big Data in society
