Money

Savers, can you use gilts to earn 8%? | Standing charge to be scrapped & budget preview

Gilts, energy standing charges, Budget clues, student finance, Star Wars... and singing.

22 Oct 2026,·47 mins

Chancellor Choices and Lost Pensions

How might the chancellor help people with the cost of living in Wednesday’s Budget?

24 Oct 2026,·24 mins

Unlocking the North

How do you get good economic growth going across every postcode in the north of England?

22 Oct 2026,·41 mins

To EV or not to EV?

Will Bain discusses the government's ZEV mandate.

23 Oct 2026,·53 mins

Oil hits $117 a barrel

Global cost-of-living crisis, as people struggle to pay for fuel and food

23 Oct 2026,·26 mins

The New Narcos

8. The Red Notebook

A red notebook in the back of a car might finally reveal the killer in Almere.

01 Oct 2026,·33 mins

Taking stock: What French protests, Netflix data and the Alberta referendum reveal

What do protests, job cuts and a referendum tell us about a changing world?

23 Oct 2026,·24 mins

Renault CEO: French Unrest & Europe's Moment of Reckoning

Francois Provost on the Chinese threat to carmakers, UK/ EU ties & French unrest.

19 Oct 2026,·35 mins

Brexit, trade and Trump

What's in store for 2020?

21 Dec 2019,·26 mins

Episode 3: The Politics

What are the politics behind tax policy?

03 Nov 2025,·42 mins

5. The £10 Billion Fridge

Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.

04 Apr 2025,·14 mins

Cheap British Beer

The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.

15 Nov 2024,·14 mins

Episode 2

Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s.

10 Feb 2015,·28 mins

18. Series 1 Debrief

What we've learnt throughout the series.

10 Feb 2020,·24 mins

Still in Business

How some businesses survived lockdown – at least this far.

24 Sep 2020,·28 mins

Birds, Bees and Business - Why Nature Matters (With The Wildlife Trusts and Landsec)

Deborah's barefoot walk, The Wildlife Trusts and one of the country's biggest landlords

14 Apr 2023,·46 mins

How to find your cheapest petrol station

A new development on Google apps means you can find the cheapest petrol station near you.

08 Oct 2026,·8 mins

Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

How animals make us smarter – we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode

22 Jul 2021,·18 mins

Monsters

Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.

30 Mar 2011,·30 mins

Washing Machine Project

Navjot Sawhney chats to Harleen Nottay about his work with The Washing Machine Project.

19 Oct 2026,·30 mins

When Geeks Took Over Poker

Tim Harford tells the story of Chris Ferguson, who applied game theory to poker, and won.

13 Feb 2013,·15 mins

The pub is dead! Long live the micropub!

British pubs have been closing down but a new type of pub - the micropub - is popping up.

15 Feb 2020,·26 mins

Wills and Inheritance Tax

Financial phone-in. Paul Lewis and guests answer queries about wills and inheritance tax.

29 Apr 2015,·30 mins

Omnibus Episode 2

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.

05 Aug 2016,·58 mins

Series 1

Coffins Full of Car Keys

Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.

29 Aug 2018,·26 mins

French Economist Thomas Piketty

Economist Thomas Piketty on the gap between the global rich and poor, tax and capitalism

25 Dec 2014,·55 mins

The Court Battle at the Centre of Europe

High Stakes: Poland and Hungary lose their court battle with the European Union.

19 Feb 2022,·49 mins

Cinderella

Writer Lucy Mangan turns to fairy tales in a search for literary solutions to the economy.

29 Aug 2014,·15 mins

Episode 5

Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.

02 Aug 2024,·14 mins

The financial cost of conflict

As western forces bomb Libya, we explore the financial cost of war.

01 Apr 2011,·26 mins