1. Networks Are Everywhere

Julia Hobsbawm is a businesswoman who has made networking her personal passion and her professional living.

Her impact on the practical study of networking made her the world's first Visiting Professor in Networking at a major British business school.

In this series of five programmes, She takes us on a journey around different and surprising worlds of networks and networking to see if we are, in fact, a Networking Nation.

In today's programme she starts by looking at networking in the 21st century and discovers that it has a lot in common with networking back in the 17th.

Producer: Karen Gregor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.