Peter Day's World of Business

America’s space effort faces big upheavals as President Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day asks what happens next on the USA’s journey into space. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

As pubs struggle to survive, Peter Day travels through villages in Yorkshire and Cumbria to talk to local activists and find out how easy it is to buy and successfully run one of the focal points for any community - the village pub. He looks at the successes and failures and asks whether sheer enthusiasm and community spirit is enough to win through. Is there an economic case for these sorts of projects or can they only survive through grants and subsidies? Producer: Bob Howard Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Charles-Edouard Bouée from strategy consultants Roland Berger tells Peter Day how Chinese management philosophy is quite different to that in the West. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Information seems to be moving right to the heart of the 21st century economy but nobody really knows what it is or how it works. Peter Day talks to pioneers in the field of information management as well as corporate gatekeepers of this valuable commodity we call information to find out what advances are being made with the amount of data we now generate. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day is back in China to hear from some of the newcomers making a splash on the Chinese business scene. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

America's space effort faces big upheavals as President Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day asks what happens next on the USA's journey into space. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day continues his look at the future of the world energy industry. And in this programme he hears more from three prominent figures in the oil industry: Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former oil minister for Saudi Arabia, Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize, and Malcolm Brinded of Royal Dutch Shell. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

In an age of high technology communications, two long-established  companies in a single German city are still battling each other for supremacy in a global marketplace ... in pencils. In Nuremberg Peter Day asks Faber-Castell and Staedtler how they both stay sharp ... and finds out what light (and shade) they can throw on the success of German industry and the viability of Europe as a single economy.  Producer: Caroline Bayley    Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Turmoil across the Middle East sent oil prices jumping and has raised big questions about the security of the energy supplies that have powered the world economy for the past 100 years. Peter Day investigates the future of oil and what the current upheavals might mean for other energy supplies. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and China are the BRICs - the developing countries experts think are well on their way to the top of the world's economic league table. But now there's talk that the fourth most populous country, Indonesia, is heading there, too. From Jakarta, Peter Day finds out more. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day has his 'thinking hat' on for this edition when he hears from two academics from the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Turmoil across the Middle East sent oil prices jumping and has raised big questions about the security of the energy supplies that have powered the world economy for the past 100 years. Peter Day investigates the future of oil and what the current upheavals might mean for other energy supplies. Producer : Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Investment bankers are talking up Indonesia's chances of joining the BRICs nations. Indonesia's current main international significance is its exported raw materials: coal and oil and palm oil to China and other parts of Asia. But for this programme Peter Day has been hearing from two busy Indonesian women, both conservative Muslims, both mothers, who both have big ideas and businesses. Yanti Isa has a chain of fast food restaurants which she has managed to roll out throughout many of the country's islands. Ligwina Hananto is a personal financial advisor and radio host who believes that by managing their money the expanding middle classes can help advance their country. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Brazil, Russia, India and China are the developing countries many experts think are well on their way to the top of the global economic league table But now there's talk that the world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia, is heading there, too. Peter Day has been in Jakarta, the capital, to find out more. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day hears from Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, about his new book "World on the Edge - How to prevent environmental and economic collapse".

New places are leaping to prominence in the pampered world of luxury. Peter Day hears from some of the people behind the extraordinary hunger for luxury in Asia. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

It's a long time since Britain ruled the maritime world, but ocean transport is still a vital activity in the UK and now wind and water power are making big waves around its shores. Peter Day takes the helm of a container ship to find out what British sea power means today. Producer: Jo Mathys Editor: Stephen Chilcott

The revolution in the operating theatre is only just beginning, but robotic surgery could change the way we think about healthcare ... and the way surgeons work. Peter Day looks at what surgeons are able to achieve with robots now and at the proto-types for healthcare in the future. He asks how significant these advances could be for health in Britain and for British business and hears from the robot pioneers: surgeons, engineers and business people. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day hears from Chandran Nair, Management Consultant and Founder of The Global Institute for Tomorrow. Author of a book called 'Consumptionomics: Asia's role in Reshaping Capitalism and saving the planet.' In the book he argues that for years the engine of global capitalism has been fuelled by consumption … but that the world will not be able to cope with the expansion of this style of consumption in the developing world and therefore a new model has to be found. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

This week on Global Business, Peter Day continues his reports from China this week looking at the country’s economic development …and what may happen next. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott