Money

Pension Inheritance Tax and Access to Work

Six months to go until changes bring unspent pension pots into Inheritance Tax.

03 Oct 2026,·25 mins

Is it time to ditch your Premium Bonds? | Free Wills | How to lend to friends & family

Martin explains who Premium Bonds work for and how to lend money to family and friends.

01 Oct 2026,·57 mins

The New Narcos

8. The Red Notebook

A red notebook in the back of a car might finally reveal the killer in Almere.

01 Oct 2026,·33 mins

Time to Talk Talk

Will Bain finds out more about the fate of Talk Talk

05 Oct 2026,·52 mins

Antiques

How does the antiques industry work and is it accurately portrayed on television shows?

01 Oct 2026,·48 mins

Listen again - Bonds: Heroes or villains?

We explore the story of the bond market and how these IOUs have shaped the modern economy

05 Oct 2026,·17 mins

EDF CEO: Another Energy Crisis is Coming

Simone Rossi warns bills to rise 20% in January and stay high until 2030.

29 Sep 2026,·39 mins

Why has Nike lost its shine?

Sportswear giant Nike announces job cuts and forecasts falling revenues.

02 Oct 2026,·26 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

Episode 3: The Politics

What are the politics behind tax policy?

03 Nov 2025,·42 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

Episode 2

Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.

04 Oct 2011,·45 mins

Wills and Inheritance Tax

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

29 Apr 2015,·30 mins

Monsters

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

30 Mar 2011,·30 mins

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

How much does the state of our teeth depend on what's in our bank balance?

19 Jul 2018,·53 mins

Ajay Cheema: Personal fitness

Ajay Cheema tells Harleen about how he went from working in banking to becoming a PT.

05 Oct 2026,·30 mins

5. The £10 Billion Fridge

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

04 Apr 2025,·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

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

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis

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

12 Feb 2021,·28 mins

18. Series 1 Debrief

What we've learnt throughout the series.

10 Feb 2020,·24 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

Sophia and Chris

Two women compare coping with the cost of living, 50 years apart.

20 Aug 2022,·28 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

Botswana: God Wants You to Be Wealthy

The country's relatively strong economy has created a new breed of consumer

25 Jan 2006,·22 mins

The Shift

Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world.

21 Nov 2011,·30 mins

Is Your House TV-Ready?

How your house could end up on TV and make you money.

30 Jan 2026,·5 mins

Omnibus Episode 2

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

05 Aug 2016,·58 mins

Mumbai

Hardeep tests his talents at the Mumbai Comedy Store.

07 Oct 2011,·30 mins

Still in Business

How some businesses survived lockdown – at least this far.

24 Sep 2020,·28 mins