Money

Do Electric Cars Add Up?

How much does it cost to go electric?

21 Jan 2026,·28 mins

Airport Lounges: For the Many or the Few?

How should operators balance the tension between demand and exclusivity?

22 Jan 2026,·32 mins

Life lessons for all ages! A warning if you’ve booked a holiday, and no standing charge tariffs?

Martin Lewis brings you his four life lessons, plus you tell us yours!

22 Jan 2026,·65 mins

A smooth finish?

What does the cancellation of the latest round of tariffs mean for whisky exports?

23 Jan 2026,·52 mins

How close is Greenland to the United States?

Tim Harford investigates Greenland maps, climate costs, house prices and Traitors maths

21 Jan 2026,·29 mins

Lew Frankfort: Building a billion-dollar brand

How Coach grew from a family handbag business to a billion-dollar company

23 Jan 2026,·17 mins

What’s really in Trump’s Greenland framework deal?

Trump says his Greenland framework will be “amazing” for the United States

22 Jan 2026,·26 mins

#21 Kurt Geiger CEO: Education System Isn't Fit For Purpose

Neil Clifford tells Will Bain we should "control, alt, delete" education system.

20 Jan 2026,·42 mins

TikTok secures US future

The site’s famous algorithm will be retrained exclusively on American user-data

23 Jan 2026,·8 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

How I quit my job through my side hustle

Scott Whitehead opened The Hideaway store in Jesmond after trading as a side hustle.

22 Jan 2026,·12 mins

Wills and Inheritance Tax

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

29 Apr 2015,·30 mins

Episode 3: The Politics

What are the politics behind tax policy?

03 Nov 2025,·42 mins

5. The £10 Billion Fridge

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

04 Apr 2025,·14 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

Episode 5

Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.

02 Aug 2024,·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

Nikhita Sethi

Founder of wellness drink Dosha, Nikhita Sethi joins Harleen Nottay to discuss her career.

19 Jan 2026,·30 mins

Going for Growth

How might the most important idea for business change and adapt in the next decade?

31 Jan 2025,·14 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

Episode 4

In the wake of Covid-19, what does the future hold?

02 Oct 2020,·28 mins

18. Series 1 Debrief

What we've learnt throughout the series.

10 Feb 2020,·24 mins

Episode 2

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

04 Oct 2011,·45 mins

Sixties and Beyond

Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today.

24 Aug 2016,·28 mins

Omnibus Episode 2

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

05 Aug 2016,·58 mins

Hunting the Truth

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

04 Mar 2022,·14 mins

Episode 2

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

10 Feb 2015,·28 mins

Monsters

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

30 Mar 2011,·30 mins

The Shift

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

21 Nov 2011,·30 mins

Still in Business

How some businesses survived lockdown – at least this far.

24 Sep 2020,·28 mins