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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
Airport Lounges: For the Many or the Few?
How should operators balance the tension between demand and exclusivity?
22 Jan 2026,·32 mins
Do Electric Cars Add Up?
How much does it cost to go electric?
21 Jan 2026,·28 mins
A smooth finish?
What does the cancellation of the latest round of tariffs mean for whisky exports?
23 Jan 2026,·52 mins
Is Greenland as big as Africa?
Tim Harford asks if Greenland is really as vast as most maps seem to suggest
24 Jan 2026,·8 mins
Ukraine's battle to keep the lights on
Ukrainians are fighting to stay warm after attacks on the country's energy networks.
23 Jan 2026,·26 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
#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
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
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 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
Wills and Inheritance Tax
Financial phone-in. Paul Lewis and guests answer queries about wills and inheritance tax.
29 Apr 2015,·30 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
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
Nikhita Sethi
Founder of wellness drink Dosha, Nikhita Sethi joins Harleen Nottay to discuss her career.
19 Jan 2026,·30 mins
Sixties and Beyond
Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today.
24 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Episode 2
Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.
04 Oct 2011,·45 mins
Monsters
Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.
30 Mar 2011,·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
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
The Shift
Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
Going for Growth
How might the most important idea for business change and adapt in the next decade?
31 Jan 2025,·14 mins
Episode 3
James Jones asks if the crash of 2008 demands a rethink of capitalism.
05 Aug 2013,·28 mins
Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s.
10 Feb 2015,·28 mins
18. Series 1 Debrief
What we've learnt throughout the series.
10 Feb 2020,·24 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
