Business Daily Podcast
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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Coronavirus in Africa
Tue 14 Apr 2020
How Covid-19 is threatening some of the most impoverished nations on the planet.
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The great coronavirus oil glut
Mon 13 Apr 2020
Demand for fuel has collapsed amid the lockdowns, but the world keeps pumping more crude
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Comedy in a crisis
Fri 10 Apr 2020
We look at the memes and videos helping many of us get through coronavirus uncertainty
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Coronavirus and the surveillance state
Thu 9 Apr 2020
Can we trust Big Brother to help fight the virus?
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Coronavirus in Asia’s biggest slum
Wed 8 Apr 2020
Life under lockdown for nearly a million residents of Dharavi slum in Mumbai
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Can technology deliver in African skies?
Tue 7 Apr 2020
Katie Prescott reports on the technology-fuelled future of Rwanda
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Who will foot the coronavirus bill?
Mon 6 Apr 2020
Governments are spending trillions of dollars to rescue their economies from the pandemic
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Coronavirus pushes Europe to the edge
Fri 3 Apr 2020
As the deaths continue to rise, Italians are asking why the EU is doing so little to help
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Will there be a vaccine?
Thu 2 Apr 2020
A vaccine would end the coronavirus pandemic, but how many months will it take?
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Coronavirus: The race to find a treatment
Wed 1 Apr 2020
Researchers rush to identify drugs that might cut the number of deaths from Covid-19
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Coronavirus in confinement
Tue 31 Mar 2020
How much social distancing is possible when you're locked up?
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Coronavirus: Preppers and the Pandemic
Mon 30 Mar 2020
Survival equipment and bunkers are in high demand during the coronavirus outbreak
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Giving care in crisis
Fri 27 Mar 2020
The mental health of workers on the frontline of the coronavirus epidemic
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The cost of lockdown in the developing world
Thu 26 Mar 2020
The region's poorest say they 'fear hunger may kill us before coronavirus'
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Are there exit strategies for coronavirus?
Wed 25 Mar 2020
China is beginning to ease restrictions as they claim cases of coronavirus have fallen
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Do we have the right data on coronavirus?
Mon 23 Mar 2020
Why a cruise ship may provide some of the answers we desperately need.
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Life under lockdown
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Some of the world’s poorest areas are suffering under tough measures to combat Covid-19
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Coronavirus: Where's the joined-up thinking?
Thu 19 Mar 2020
What can be learned from East Asia's response to Covid-19, and from Ebola in West Africa?
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Can the private sector help struggling hospitals?
Wed 18 Mar 2020
Private firms are stepping in to fill the gaps in the world's coronavirus strategies
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Can airlines survive coronavirus?
Tue 17 Mar 2020
Airlines are cancelling flights and temporarily cutting staff
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Coronavirus: Can the risk be contained?
Mon 16 Mar 2020
The US has slashed interest rates, and public life is halting across the Western world
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Wet markets and the coronavirus
Fri 13 Mar 2020
Where the coronavirus came from and why these diseases aren't a one-off
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The great North Korean crypto hack
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Crypto-currency and cybercrime have helped continue fund the DPRK's nuclear programme
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How to stop coronavirus crashing your economy
Wed 11 Mar 2020
As much of Italy quarantines itself, what can authorities do to keep businesses afloat?
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The psychology of panic buying
Tue 10 Mar 2020
How the spread of coronavirus is changing consumer behaviour
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The great face hack
Fri 6 Mar 2020
Facial recognition firm Clearview scraped billions of people's photos off social media