Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,25 Mar 2021,28 mins

Billionaires

The Bottom Line

Available for over a year

When you have billions it's impossible to spend it all on yourself and your family. So what else do you do? Join the space race like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos or start a foundation like Bill Gates and follow in the footsteps of the massively wealthy industrialists of the Gilded Age, like Andrew Carnegie or John D Rockefeller? What do they tell us about our world is changing for better or worse. GUESTS Dr. Katharina Rietzler, Lecturer, American History, University of Sussex Paul Vallely, Author, 'Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg' Manfred Kets de Vries, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change, INSEAD and Abigail Disney, Co-founder Fork Films and host of All Ears podcast Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Hugh Levinson

Programme Website
More episodes