Money

Best bits: How to check if you’re paying too much council tax

See how to check, challenge your banding and possibly get a rebate of £1000s.

13 Aug 2026,·60 mins

Money Box Live: Armed Forces Finances

How do members of the armed forces take command of their finances?

29 Jul 2026,·28 mins

Young people want jobs

We take a look at youth unemployment across the world.

14 Aug 2026,·26 mins

Highlights, no camera, action

The blockbuster movies bringing UK cinemagoers back to the box office.

14 Aug 2026,·52 mins

Who Rules Porn?

8. Inside Porn's Star Chamber

Alex and Patricia discover how Visa and MasterCard became the reluctant rulers of porn.

23 Jul 2026,·41 mins

Taking Stock: The cost of heatwaves

How are heatwaves and climate change reshaping the global economy?

14 Aug 2026,·25 mins

#51 Thames Water CEO: We Welcome Greater Public Control, Not Nationalisation

Chris Weston, on the future of Thames Water and droughts being the new normal.

30 Jul 2026,·47 mins

Episode 3: The Politics

What are the politics behind tax policy?

03 Nov 2025,·42 mins

The Bottom Line Business Awards 2026

What was the best business move of the last 12 months and who made the biggest blunder?

23 Jul 2026,·34 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

5. The £10 Billion Fridge

Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.

04 Apr 2025,·14 mins

Episode 2

Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s.

10 Feb 2015,·28 mins

Wills and Inheritance Tax

Financial phone-in. Paul Lewis and guests answer queries about wills and inheritance tax.

29 Apr 2015,·30 mins

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis

‘Just because you passionately believe in it, that doesn't make it a good idea’.

12 Feb 2021,·28 mins

Monsters

Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.

30 Mar 2011,·30 mins

18. Series 1 Debrief

What we've learnt throughout the series.

10 Feb 2020,·24 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

Still in Business

How some businesses survived lockdown – at least this far.

24 Sep 2020,·28 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

Hunting the Truth

Were the banks telling the truth about their role in the financial crash of 2008?

04 Mar 2022,·14 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

Spains tourism is at tipping point

Thousands have protested across Spain against the impact of mass tourism.

27 Jul 2026,·28 mins

Omnibus Episode 2

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.

05 Aug 2016,·58 mins

Running a theatre company: Mukul Ahmed

Mukul Ahmed tells Harleen about how he set up and continues to run a theatre company.

10 Aug 2026,·30 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

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

Economic Growth

Martha Kearney and Dharshini David go back to the economic basics.

28 Oct 2022,·14 mins

Amy and Ian

Psychology graduate Amy meets Ian, who survived three years of unemployment in the 1980s.

19 Oct 2020,·28 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