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How to live to 150
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Would you want to live to 150? With leaps in technology, science and medicine, it's becoming an increasingly realistic possibility.Elizabeth Hotson ta...
Texas abortion laws
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Texas has introduced the most stringent abortion law in America. Tamasin Ford assesses some of the reaction to this law by employers and employees who...
Business Weekly
20 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Business Weekly, we look at the new wave of Covid-19 that’s hitting several European countries. We hear how the different take-up rates of vaccin...
Why toilets matter
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy World Toilet Day! It is that day of the year when we all need to overcome our embarrassment and discuss what is normally a taboo topic. Hundreds...
Hunger crisis in Afghanistan
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is it time to stop the freeze of the country's financial assets and donor aid or will that just legitimise the Taliban? Ed Butler speaks to John Sifto...
Period pants, poverty and the environment
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can this multi-million dollar industry help the climate and fight period poverty? Tamasin Ford speaks to Marisa Meltzer, a writer in New York who rece...
Stalkerware: Tech-enabled domestic abuse skyrocketing
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the number of devices infected with stalkerware rising by over 60% in a year, many are worried about the consequences. Ivana Davidovic speaks wit...
What did the climate talks achieve?
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What was really at stake at the COP26 negotiations in Glasgow, and how much have the politicians done to avert a climate disaster?Justin Rowlatt speak...
Diversity at the top
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why is the black community still so poorly represented in leadership positions? We speak to the changemakers who are doing something about it. Kike On...
Business Weekly
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Business Weekly, we take a look at the splitting up of a 129-year old behemoth. General Electric announced that it will divide itself into three se...
Hong Kong, business and the national security law
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are Hong Kong's days as a major financial centre now numbered? The end of the pandemic has seen renewed economic growth. But some say tough anti-Covid...
Corruption in Afghanistan
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The former finance minister from the collapsed Afghan government, Khalid Payenda, tells Ed Butler that it was brought down by rampant corruption at a ...
EU's green new deal and Africa
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will Africa’s economic development be held back for the world’s net zero climate targets? And could banning investment in their fossil fuels do mo...
Can sewage spewing into UK waters be stopped?
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sewage entered British waters for around 3 million hours in 2020 in over 400,000 pollution incidents. Hugo Tagholm, chief executive of Surfers Against...
Business Weekly
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As global leaders jet out of Glasgow, leaving the hard bargaining to their delegates, Business Weekly looks at what the pledges made so far really mea...
Nigeria's eNaira: Africa's first digital currency
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Central Banks around the world are introducing digital currencies and last month Nigeria became the first African country to launch one - the eNaira. ...
Is inflation making a comeback?
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation has hardly been seen in the developed world economies for the last three decades. But now some economists are warning it could be returning ...
Guy Hands on deal making and private equity
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guy Hands, the founder of Terra Firma, opens up on the highs and lows and risks involved in deal making and private equity. From being bullied at scho...
Buy now, pay later
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The future of credit for the young, or just another way of getting into debt? Would you pay for a product now, when you could simply delay payment for...
Silicon Valley and the climate crisis
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the world focuses its attention on climate, we’re looking to the money that could create real change. Venture capital is the type of financing th...
Business Weekly
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As world leaders gather in Glasgow in Scotland for the UN’s global climate conference, COP26, we ask if a new project partnering with the private se...
Trophy hunting: Money and morality
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Trophy hunting – paying to kill large animals, often in African game reserves – promotes strong feelings. Many oppose it, but some conservationist...
The $200,000 starting salary
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does a $200,000 starting salary sound? That’s now the industry standard for newly qualified lawyers at big corporate law firms in the US and the...
Net zero: Do corporate pledges make any difference?
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Around one fifth of the world’s 2000 largest public firms have committed to net zero targets in the coming years. Most are pledging to something cal...
Can global shipping go green?
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fergus Nicoll travels to the port of Workington in the north west of England, where he hears from port manager Sven Richards about how small regional ...
Saving the Amazon with economics
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest but this crucial carbon sink is facing increased deforestation. Land clearing for mining or agriculture h...
Business Weekly
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the Swiss bank Credit Suisse is fined $475m for participating in Mozambique’s tuna bonds fraud, on Business Weekly we find out how the southern A...
Big fat Indian weddings
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are the days of the big fat Indian wedding over? Since Covid Indian weddings have got a lot smaller. But will they go back to what they once were? Rah...
'Fixing' Facebook's algorithm
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The social media giant's algorithm has been accused of amplifying divisive content and disinformation. Could regulating it make Facebook a kinder plat...
Ticking timebomb in the Red Sea
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Decaying oil tanker could trigger an environmental and humanitarian disaster. The FSO Safer is marooned off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, close t...
Bug burger anyone?
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is the Western diet ready for farmed insects in food? Although insects are consumed by more than two billion people worldwide, acceptance of them in t...
Rethinking the future: cleaning up big emitters
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We report from the Countdown summit in Edinburgh where fresh ideas to fight climate change are taking centre stage ahead of the UN climate talks, star...
Business Weekly
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of people in Afghanistan are living in extreme poverty as prices rise and salaries go unpaid. There are warnings that hunger will follow the ...
Eyes on climate: new ideas to fight global warming
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the world turns its attention to addressing climate change, Business Daily is in Edinburgh. We bring you an inside glimpse of the conversations set...
The supply chain's weak link
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How disruption in a single port, factory or freight centre can cause global chaos. Ed Butler speaks with Stavros Karamperidis, an expert in maritime e...
China's gaming crackdown
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why the government doesn't like video games, and what's next for China's gaming culture. Ed Butler speaks to Josh Ye, who covers gaming for the South ...
The economics of older mums
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why many women are delaying motherhood, how is technology helping, and what does the law say about all things fertility and the workplace. Zoe Kleinma...
The economics of donkeys
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are an estimated ten million donkeys in sub Saharan Africa, many providing crucial roles supporting the livelihoods of low income families. We ...
Business Weekly
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Business Weekly, with the site down and a whistle-blower’s testimonial, was this Facebook’s worst-ever week? We hear what went ...
Working in your 80s: The Artist
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Geraldine Robarts is a painter based in Kenya who has been exhibiting since 1958 and who still paints everyday, aged 82. Whether it’s a passion for ...
Life at Kenya's Dandora rubbish dump
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We go to Dandora, one of Africa’s largest rubbish tips. A court in Nairobi has ordered the dumpsite to come up with a concrete plan to close by Febr...
Big tech and carbon
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Google pledges to be carbon free by 2030. Ahead of next month's UN Climate Summit, the company has come out with new targets to become greener than ev...
Living in the metaverse
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are virtual online worlds the future of the internet? Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg thinks so. He is among the tech leaders who say we'll increasingly li...
Can technology transform emergency services?
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Getting to hospital in a medical emergency, in countries without a centralised ambulance service, can be critically slow. In rapidly urbanising Kenya,...
Business Weekly
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As China suffers its worst blackouts in over a decade, on Business Weekly we ask what’s causing the power shortages and what they mean for the rest ...
Smart cities and broken dreams
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do smart cities live up to the hype? Urban centres from New York to South Korea’s Busan are rebranding themselves as ‘smart’. From real-time cri...
Evergrande and China's property woes
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
China's second largest property developer, Evergrande, is at risk of financial collapse, saddled with billions of dollars of debt. It's already defaul...
Inside an influencer house
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re off to an influencer house, a luxurious mansion where social media personalities are temporarily living together to create content on behalf o...
Decentralised Finance on the rise
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Regulators are taking a close look at new crypto-trading environments, known collectively as Decentralised Finance, or DeFi. advocates say the technol...
Climate weighs on German elections
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fight to succeed popular German chancellor Angela Merkel could not be tighter. In late July the country’s climate policies shot to the top of th...
Business Weekly
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In just over a month world leaders will meet for a decisive climate change summit - we’ll ask if politicians are willing to accept the end of expone...
Can Ethiopia be brought back from the brink?
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The country is embroiled in an internal war which has taken a huge humanitarian toll with thousands killed and millions displaced. But that's not the...
US war on e-cigarettes
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Food and Drugs Administration has withdrawn nearly a million e-cigarettes from the US market. Does this signal a turning point for the vaping indu...
World gas prices surge
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today small energy firms among those struggling to stay afloat as world gas prices spiral. Ed Butler hears from Peter McGirr, who runs Green energy, a...
Lebanon in dire need
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new Lebanese government has been in place for a week, but with the economy still spiraling, Lebanese people lack confidence anything will be done ...
Business Weekly
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Business Weekly, we hear how internal research at Facebook found that social media was harming the mental health of teenage girls. In the UK, the R...
The business of seed banks
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly scientists are using genetic material from wild plants to make agricultural crops more resilient to climate change. To find out how, Rebe...
The US and its trillion dollar infrastructure bill
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The physical infrastructure of the United States is crumbling and businesses there are feeling the effects. So why is this bill that aims to restore r...
The future of vaccines
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The founders of German biotechnology company BioNTech were researching how to fight cancers using messenger RNA, "the unloved cousin of DNA", when cov...
Rethinking tourism in Africa
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tourism in Africa, even before the pandemic, was still not bringing in as many visitor dollars as it might. But, from stargazing trips to plans for a ...
Does sustainable investing make any difference?
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is corporate social responsibility, so called "greenwashing", really changing carbon emitting businesses or just making it look that way? Canadian bus...
Business Weekly
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of Business Weekly, we look at why one of the poorest countries in Latin America, El Salvador, decided to make Bitcoin legal tender. W...
Where have the UK's lorry drivers gone?
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK's suffering a huge shortage of lorry drivers, but where have 100,000 drivers gone? The shortage is now having an impact on everything from chic...
Reviving Kenya’s ancient trading port
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lamu, once a bustling gateway to the Indian Ocean, has seen its fortunes decline in recent decades, not least because of its position near the border ...
Where next for AI?
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AI will be the defining development of the 21st century and in the next two decades it is set to transform our lives. Kai Fu Lee, a former CEO of Goog...
Kenya and coronavirus
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During coronavirus, while case numbers have seemed relatively low, there’s been a huge economic impact on many Kenyans. We hear from the BBC’s Mic...
Business Weekly
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On Business Weekly, we hear from the World Meteorological Organisation which has been tracking weather-related disasters for the last 50 years. We loo...
Should you trust reviews?
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When are reviews real and when are they fake? We'll be asking a range of guests whether it's ok to be paid to do a review and how online sites can det...
OnlyFans flip flops on porn
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why did one of the world's best-known porn provider platforms, OnlyFans, decide to ban porn? The controversial site has become a global phenomenon ove...
Life after Messi: FC Barcelona's financial mess
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did one of the world's biggest sporting brands end up in such a financial mess? FC Barcelona's collapse, from European Champions League winning ju...
Child marriage is getting worse in India
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Closed schools and economic hardship due to Coronavirus are seeing more young girls married off. We’ll hear from a young girl who managed to resist ...
Is office wear dead?
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us are preparing go back into the office but after more than a year of working from home for a lot of people, have we forgotten how to dress p...
Business Weekly
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While the eyes of the world are on Afghanistan and the US withdrawal, the American Vice President is trying to generate some headlines of her own duri...
From 'nudge' to 'sludge'
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nobel laureate Richard Thaler talks about why his and Cass Sunstein's 'nudge' theory needs a re-boot.
Life under the Taliban
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gaisu fled the Taliban when she was 18. Now she's fleeing again. Speaking to the BBC's Tamasin Ford, Gaisu recounts being engaged to the son of a loca...
Sexism, tribalism and housing
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Finding a place to live in Nigeria’s big cities. Finding somewhere to live can be stressful wherever you are in the world. But in Lagos, Africa’s ...
The economics of the Taliban
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The economy of Afghanistan is collapsing as remittances and foreign aid dry up. As the militant Taliban consolidate their control over the country, it...
'Youngism' in the workplace
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Age discrimination doesn't just affect the elderly. The BBC's Tamasin Ford speaks with Priscilla and Nadirah about the discrimination they've experien...
Business Weekly
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the Taliban takes control of Afghanistan this week, we ask what the future holds for the country. The central bank governor, Ajmal Ahmady, who fled...
Rethinking time
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
All our lives are ruled by time and it's a fundamental part of our daily routines but what if we could make time go more slowly - or quickly? Adrian B...
Controversial new Alzheimer's drug in the spotlight
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After decades without progress, this June a new treatment was approved by the US Food and Drugs Administration - Biogen's Aduhelm. Ivana Davidovic lo...
Should our photos and messages always be private?
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Apple is to scan users' iPhones for images of child abuse. Privacy advocates are dismayed. They say it's a slippery slope to monitoring a wider range ...
Killer robots
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are these the future of modern warfare and how concerned should we be? There are efforts to limit the development of these weapons. More than 50 natio...
Sexism in the alcohol industry
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Women in the drinks industry share their stories to try to change the way women are treated in pubs, clubs and bars. After many shared stories of hara...
No boss, no problems
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A young entrepreneur builds the ‘happiest company in the world’, an online shoe retailer so profitable that Amazon snaps it up for over a billion ...
Neurodiversity at work
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neurodiversity is a broad term inclusive of a number of very different things including, but not limited to, autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia. And...
Electrifying Sierra Leone
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing electricity to his village for the first time, we speak with Jeremiah Thoronka in Sierra Leone about the challenges of energy inequality in t...
Bitcoin ban has opposite effect in Nigeria
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin’s popularity in Nigeria has exploded – with one of the youngest populations in the world, coupled with a high unemployment rate, its popul...
Doping in eSports: the billion-dollar pill
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doping is a growing problem in the multi-billion dollar industry of competitive online gaming – but remains an open secret. As prize money runs in t...
Business Weekly
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this edition of Business Weekly, we look into Lebanon’s economy - a country going through the worst economic crisis since its civil war of the 70...
China's Tech Crackdown
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is China's behavior towards its innovators separating the country further from the world? That's the question on everybody's mind, as the Chinese auth...
Why isn't Africa producing vaccines?
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Less than two percent of Africa’s population has been vaccinated against Covid-19. Could homegrown vaccines be the solution? If so, why isn’t it h...
GMOs - from 'Frankenfoods' to Superfoods?
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since they first appeared in the nineties, GMOs have remained wildly unpopular with consumers, who see them as potentially sinister tools of big agric...
Business Weekly
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the major technology companies posted record-breaking quarterly results, as they reaped the benefits of a world in lockdown. However, as pol...
The rise of digital therapy
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mental health care apps have boomed during the pandemic. But can receiving therapy through an app ever be as good as face to face? And do they raise c...
Miles Copeland's life in the music business
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lessons from nearly fifty years producing and managing bands, with industry veteran Miles Copeland III. From brilliantly promoting his brother's band ...
The billionaire space race
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are battling it out among the stars. Ed Butler speaks to Brad Stone, author of the book Amazon Unbound, about Amazon foun...
The great resignation wave
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Has the pandemic encouraged more of us to quit our jobs? Rebecca Kesby speaks to Anthony Klotz, associate professor at Texas A&M University, who s...
Just how bad is rental fashion?
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rental fashion is in the spotlight when it comes to climate footprint. A new study suggests it might not be the silver bullet as once thought, but env...
Business Weekly
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Business Weekly, we look at the use of vaccine passports in the tourism and hospitality industries. Owning a 'pass sanitaire' is no...