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
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Regenerating Margate
15/08/2013 Duration: 27minPeter Day explores the relationship between Commerce and Art in the seaside town of Margate. Will Turner Contemporary help to revive the town?
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Sir Ian Wood
09/08/2013 Duration: 26minPeter 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.
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Gene Patenting
08/08/2013 Duration: 27minA recent US Supreme Court ruling found that companies cannot patent things found in nature. Peter Day asks what this means for the biotech business.
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North Sea Oil
01/08/2013 Duration: 27minPeter 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?
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Kenya's tech hopes
26/07/2013 Duration: 26minThe 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.
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Mobile Money in Kenya
19/07/2013 Duration: 26minPeter Day visits Nairobi’s high-tech incubators and talks to the innovators building on the success of the mobile money system M-Pesa.
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Entrepreneur of the Year
12/07/2013 Duration: 26minThe 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.
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Paul Omerod
05/07/2013 Duration: 26minPeter 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?
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Designs For Life
28/06/2013 Duration: 26minPeter 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.
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Breakthrough Designs
21/06/2013 Duration: 26minPeter 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.
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3D Printing/New Dimensions
31/05/2013 Duration: 26minPeter Day hears from the pioneers of the rapidly-advancing world of digital manufacturing
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Strike up the Broadband
24/05/2013 Duration: 26minThe 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.
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Vorsprung durch Technik or Universitat?
23/05/2013 Duration: 28minExperts 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?
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New Dimensions
16/05/2013 Duration: 28minManufacturing 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.
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Feeding the Nine Billion
10/05/2013 Duration: 26minPeter Day asks a panel of experts how we ensure there is enough food to feed an expected world population of nine billion by 2050.
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Job Search
02/05/2013 Duration: 28minMillions 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.
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Potash of Gold
25/04/2013 Duration: 27minPeter 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.
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Skoll World Forum: Disrupting Big Finance
19/04/2013 Duration: 26minPeter Day presents a debate about disrupting big finance at the annual Skoll World Forum.
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Battle of the Business Schools
12/04/2013 Duration: 26minPeter Day examines the rivalry between two Boston business schools - Harvard and MIT.