Peter Day's World of Business

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Synopsis

Insights into the business world with Peter Day - featuring content from BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, and also Global Business from the BBC World Service.

Episodes

  • Regenerating Margate

    15/08/2013 Duration: 27min

    Peter Day explores the relationship between Commerce and Art in the seaside town of Margate. Will Turner Contemporary help to revive the town?

  • Sir Ian Wood

    09/08/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day talks to Scottish businessman, Sir Ian Wood, who tells us his fascinating story of transforming the family firm from a fishing company to a global energy services group.

  • Gene Patenting

    08/08/2013 Duration: 27min

    A recent US Supreme Court ruling found that companies cannot patent things found in nature. Peter Day asks what this means for the biotech business.

  • North Sea Oil

    01/08/2013 Duration: 27min

    Peter Day reports from Aberdeen where Britain's energy revolution began under the North Sea almost 40 years ago. Investment is up but production is down - so what's the future?

  • Kenya's tech hopes

    26/07/2013 Duration: 26min

    The Kenyan government has big plans to boost the country’s technology sector. Peter Day asks if they are feasible – and if will they deliver the growth the government wants.

  • Mobile Money in Kenya

    19/07/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day visits Nairobi’s high-tech incubators and talks to the innovators building on the success of the mobile money system M-Pesa.

  • Entrepreneur of the Year

    12/07/2013 Duration: 26min

    The annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards brings together innovative talent from around the world. Peter Day talks to three of this year's winners to hear their start up stories.

  • Paul Omerod

    05/07/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day talks with economist and author Paul Ormerod about what is wrong with economics. Has keeping things too simple lead the world to the financial mess we are stuck in today?

  • Designs For Life

    28/06/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day explores the new trend of Design Thinking to find out why it is becoming more important to the way organisations both public and private function.

  • Breakthrough Designs

    21/06/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day visits the Design of the Year Awards in London and finds how modern design is infiltrating many aspects of the way we live and work.

  • St Gallen

    07/06/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day attends the 43 annual St Gallen Symposium - a student organised gathering of business and political leaders - to hear about this year's theme: courage.

  • 3D Printing/New Dimensions

    31/05/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day hears from the pioneers of the rapidly-advancing world of digital manufacturing

  • Strike up the Broadband

    24/05/2013 Duration: 26min

    The internet is fast becoming as important to firms as electricity or running water. Peter Day meets some of the broadband haves and have-nots in the business world.

  • Vorsprung durch Technik or Universitat?

    23/05/2013 Duration: 28min

    Experts worry that Germany's economy is running out of steam. Where is German innovation, they ask and why do so few Germany universities rank among the world leaders?

  • New Dimensions

    16/05/2013 Duration: 28min

    Manufacturing is evolving for the 21st century. Peter Day hears from some pioneers in the field of digital fabrication about how it applies to the way we think about making things.

  • Feeding the Nine Billion

    10/05/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day asks a panel of experts how we ensure there is enough food to feed an expected world population of nine billion by 2050.

  • Job Search

    02/05/2013 Duration: 28min

    Millions of young people want to work but do not know where to find it. A clutch of them tell their stories to Peter Day, and a panel of experts.

  • Potash of Gold

    25/04/2013 Duration: 27min

    Peter Day reports on controversial plans to dig for polyhalite - a type of potash that can be made into valuable fertiliser - underneath the North York Moors National Park.

  • Skoll World Forum: Disrupting Big Finance

    19/04/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day presents a debate about disrupting big finance at the annual Skoll World Forum.

  • Battle of the Business Schools

    12/04/2013 Duration: 26min

    Peter Day examines the rivalry between two Boston business schools - Harvard and MIT.

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