AirBnB prepares for initial public offering

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Shares in the online home rental site AirBnB will start trading in New York on Thursday. Rebecca Crook is chief growth officer at the digital product agency SoMo, and tells us whether it's a sensible time to be launching such an IPO, given that the Covid-19 pandemic is still causing significant disruption to the global travel industry. And we get the perspective of AirBnB host Karen Fraser, who owns a converted double decker bus in Nairobi, Kenya. Also in the programme, the BBC's Ed Butler examines whether pharmaceutical companies are likely to release their drug patents for medicines and vaccines related to coronavirus. Plus, the Halo Collective says one in five black women feel pressure to straighten their hair for work. UK consumer goods company Unilever has now signed the Halo Code, which is designed to protect employees with dreadlocks or afro hair, and we find out more from Mary Mante of the Halo Collective. (Picture: An AirBnB logo. Picture credit: AFP.)