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Moving the goalposts
The Premier League is back, with a new set of rules on how clubs spend their money.
21 Aug 2026,·52 mins
Best of Question Time: How do I escape a joint account? Save hard, or spend more on my family? Top tips for beginner investors
Martin Lewis answers your financial questions in a best of his Question Time podcast.
21 Aug 2026,·42 mins
Title: El Niño: What could it mean for the global economy?
Short: A powerful El Niño could push global temperatures to record highs
21 Aug 2026,·26 mins
Taking Stock: What’s next for social media?
Meta is facing mounting legal pressure over how its platforms affect young users.
21 Aug 2026,·17 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
Money Box Live: Armed Forces Finances
How do members of the armed forces take command of their finances?
29 Jul 2026,·28 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
#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
Desi Dictionary: Tanvee Manjure
Tanvee Manjure tells Harleen Nottay about her creation, the Desi Dictionary.
17 Aug 2026,·30 mins
Episode 2
Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.
04 Oct 2011,·45 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
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 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
The pub is dead! Long live the micropub!
British pubs have been closing down but a new type of pub - the micropub - is popping up.
15 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Episode 3: The Politics
What are the politics behind tax policy?
03 Nov 2025,·42 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
Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s.
10 Feb 2015,·28 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
Monsters
Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.
30 Mar 2011,·30 mins
Spains tourism is at tipping point
Thousands have protested across Spain against the impact of mass tourism.
27 Jul 2026,·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
18. Series 1 Debrief
What we've learnt throughout the series.
10 Feb 2020,·24 mins
Sophia and Chris
Two women compare coping with the cost of living, 50 years apart.
20 Aug 2022,·28 mins
The Court Battle at the Centre of Europe
High Stakes: Poland and Hungary lose their court battle with the European Union.
19 Feb 2022,·49 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
Your Money in Shanghai
Credit card mania is on the rise in China but are people living beyond their means?
13 Nov 2013,·44 mins
Episode 4
Michael Robinson explores how to fix Britain's broken housing market.
24 Aug 2014,·28 mins
French Economist Thomas Piketty
Economist Thomas Piketty on the gap between the global rich and poor, tax and capitalism
25 Dec 2014,·55 mins
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
Is Your House TV-Ready?
How your house could end up on TV and make you money.
30 Jan 2026,·5 mins
