Robert Peston

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5,884 appearances 45 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

Robert Peston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 45 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 9.

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The Rest Is Money · 308. The 4 challenges (and the biggest opportunity) facing the new PM · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

But these uh you know, a limited number of investors and founders making, you know, even bigger fortunes, even bigger than the sort of in a sense, you know, multiple billions and trillions that are currently being accumulated. matched

How does one get in order for society to function? matched

How is one gonna get at least some tax out of these incredibly mobile, astonishingly powerful founders and and and and um matched

Uh investors. matched

When you talk to whether it's officials or or ministers matched

Do you think that there is, in a general sense, enough of a consciousness about just the scale of you know this is only one challenge. matched

I mean, if you just look at, you know, industrial developments in China at the moment, China is now dominating pretty much every high tech manufacturing industry that one can think of. matched

Right? matched

Massive implications for the whole of Europe as a result of that. matched

Do you do you think people get how serious and urgent this is? matched

No, I agree with you. matched

Look, we this is a know how world and I think we're pretty good at know how in the UK. matched

So I you know, I remain occasionally disappointed by one or two uh events in the world, but I remain an optimist. matched

I mean you you matched

That's right. matched

And and and uh we you know, I'm sure you won't want me to finish on this particular note, but the you know, my football team is Arsenal and it shows you that even after d many, many years in the doldrums, you can come back and become a become a superpower. matched

Yeah, I'm sure it's only a matter of time, you know, these these things go in cycles. matched

Gus, as always, loving to see you. matched

Thank you so much for joining us today, and that's it for this edition of The Rest is Money. matched

The Rest Is Money · 307. The world’s most influential economist: how we can deliver "worker-friendly AI" · 23 Aug 2026 podcast

Nobel Prize winner Darren Asamoglu says those who've run our countries in recent decades were wrong to believe that the digital and automation revolution that crushed so many jobs and suppressed wages was inevitable.

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