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Mahira Khan on Pakistan's mental health emergency

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we explore mental health provision in Pakistan. Pakistan has a population of more than 200 million people but only around 500 working ...

Can a giant seaweed farm help curb climate change?

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A British businessman has come up with a bold plan to turn the floating seaweed sargassum into cash, and tackle global warming at the same time. In ...

Rent-a-Robot

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The use of robots in North American workplaces has increased by 40% since the start of the pandemic and the small to medium sized businesses, which ne...

Space: The final food frontier

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is space the final frontier for meat grown from animal stem cells?Elizabeth Hotson asks whether growing steaks under micro gravity conditions could he...

How to quit

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When women's tennis world number one Ash Barty suddenly announced in March 2022 that she was retiring from tennis, it was huge shock.Barty, a three ti...

Getting backpackers to return to Australia

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Now that borders have opened up post pandemic, backpackers have been slow to return to Australia.Despite a number of initiatives, the number of travel...

Why food could be the future of fashion

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries – more than half of everything we wear is still made from plastic. In the search for more ...

Are home solar panels the solution?

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Home solar – putting panels on your roof or side of your house, used be something fairly unusual. However, rising energy costs means that people are...

Business Daily meets: Will Butler-Adams

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brompton makes 100,000 foldable bikes in London every year and exports about 75% of them. Chief executive Will Butler-Adams tells us how he grew the b...

Comic Con economics

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comics are a multi-billion dollar industry and comic conventions - or cons - attract thousands of fans, desperate to meet their heroes and splash some...

Business Daily Meets: Margrethe Vestager

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Margrethe Vestager is the European commissioner for competition.Ms Vestager has been spearheading the landmark Digital Markets and Digital Services Ac...

Why Finland is building with wood again

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Could building more homes and offices out of wood instead of concrete help tackle climate change? We travel to Finland, where growing numbers of homes...

The fight for domestic workers’ rights

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Millions of people, mainly women, sign up for jobs as domestic workers overseas. Yet much of this work is informal, with households enforcing their ow...

Can festivals bounce back?

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The global events industry was valued at more than $1.1 billion in 2019, before the start of the covid-19 pandemic. Live music and concert events alon...

Why everyone wants a ‘blue tick’ on social media

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For online influencers getting verification - a blue tick next to their social media account name - is the ultimate prize. It brings credibility and e...

Business Daily meets: Paul and Mike Rabil

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The sport of lacrosse has a long history, being one of the oldest sports in North America. But, for a long time, many players couldn't earn a living i...

Who benefits most from remote working?

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The coronavirus pandemic allowed many people worldwide to work in new and radical ways. It brought some of the biggest changes for computer-based offi...

The condiments (and sauces) that never change

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tabasco sauce has been around since 1868, Lea and Perrins’ Worcestershire Sauce since 1837. So how have these brands managed to survive for so long...

The women kicking off their high heels at work

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For years women working in certain jobs, such as banking or retail, have had to wear high heels as part of the company’s dress code. But now women a...

The real state of the Russian economy

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As Ukraine seemingly makes dramatic advances on the battlefield, we look at what this may say about the situation inside Russia itself. Military analy...

Nigeria's push to grow its own coconuts

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Most of Nigeria has the perfect climate for growing coconuts and yet it imports 70% of the fruit, which is widely used to make snacks, drinks and to m...

Should we be more open about salaries?

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Salaries are often kept secret in most workplaces - but times are changing.The BBC’s Deborah Weitzmann discusses implications for pay transparency p...

Business Daily meets: Russ Glass

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can an app, founded by a former monk, become one of the biggest tech companies in the world?Russ Glass, the chief executive of Headspace Health, takes...

Why Europe’s inland shipping network is drying up

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As Europe’s historically dry summer continues, Matthew Kenyon takes a trip on the barge Mezzoforte, and talks to skipper Dirk Pols about the challen...

Venice’s tourist problem: Are day trippers welcome?

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Italy’s famous floating city has a problem - too many tourists are visiting Venice during the high season. The city authorities recently announced a...

Business Daily meets: Bruce Daisley

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do people who use social media need to be more resilient? Thats the question Sam Fenwick asks former Twitter executive, Bruce Daisley. For eight years...

Using less gas in our homes

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Netherlands has long been almost totally reliant on gas to heat people's homes. But as Europe tries to wean itself off domestic gas, something mad...

Getting ready for Paris 2024

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ashish Sharma reports from Paris as the city prepares to host the Olympic games in the summer of 2024. President of the Paris Organising Committee of ...

The unusual world of dark tourism

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Instead of choosing a traditional sunny holiday, some tourists choose to visit places that many consider sites of tragedy, death or disaster. On Busin...

How to dispose of nuclear waste

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry today is how to deal with the lethal radioactive waste which has accumulated over decades. G...

The refugee entrepreneurs starting again

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's been six months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, the war in Ukraine has pushed the number of refu...

War in Ukraine: Farmers and workers struggle on

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Six months into the war in Ukraine, the impact continues to be felt around the world. Frey Lindsay explores how disruptive the war has been for agric...

Fighting Ukraine fundraising fatigue

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's been six months since Russia invaded its neighbour Ukraine. In the early days, in late February, March and April, charities were overwhelmed by d...

Tunnelling under the Atlantic

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With a population of just over 50,000 people the Faroe Islands are spending vast sums of money digging sub-sea tunnels to keep remote communities aliv...

Can Japan become Asia's Silicon Valley?

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We look at Japan’s bid to compete with Silicon Valley. Japan is well known for innovations such as the walkman, bullet trains and Nintendo games, bu...

Business Daily meets: La June Montgomery Tabron

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vivienne Nunis sits down with La June Montgomery Tabron, President and CEO of one of the world's biggest charities, the Kellogg Foundation. Last year ...

Rainbow washing

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It might seem like a step forward when advertisers want to appeal to a historically marginalised community, but the use of the LGBT rainbow flag by co...

Tackling over-tourism in Greece

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria Craig whisks us off to the Greek island of Tinos to find out about a Greek government strategy to prevent over-tourism. On this virtual vacat...

The electric transport revolution

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

New forms of electric transport are revolutionising the way we travel for both work and leisure. Soaring gas prices around the world are encouraging p...

Subscribe and fly: the travel industry’s latest trend

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Travel isn't easy anymore. Between the cancelled flights, lost baggage and just the cost of it all, it's almost enough to turn people off altogether. ...

Business Daily Meets: Pernilla Nyresten

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pernilla Nyrensten made history when she became the first female founding CEO to float a company on the Stockholm stock exchange since the its incepti...

Sweden’s light time economy

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like to live in permanent daylight for part of the year? Elizabeth Hotson travels around Swedish Lapland to see how one of the most modern...

The fight for digital privacy

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A new breed of tech firms is aiming to revolutionise consumer rights online – making us invisible to advertisers unless they pay us for our data.Pre...

Managing our National Parks

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Approximately 6% of the Earth’s land surface is covered in National Parks – but what does it take to look after these rare and special landscapes?...

War in Ukraine: Venezuela's oil opportunity?

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Russian aggression in Ukraine and the world's quest to end the dependence on Russian oil and gas has created an opportunity for Venezuela to negotiate...

The power of fungi

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Hayward takes a journey into the world of fungi. There’s a global wave of interest in the potential uses of fungi right now - and businesses are...

China's economic challenge

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

China, the so-called engine of global growth, seems to be stalling badly right now. The country is facing rising unemployment, falling factory output ...

Women, sport and business: Betting

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gambling has a long and complex relationship with sport. But betting is no longer a man's game. As women's sport grows, many companies are putting big...

The Hongkongers leaving for the UK

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2020, after months of civil unrest, China introduced a new security law in Hong Kong. The UK authorities said it 'violated' the one country, two sy...

A crisis in US rural healthcare

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

America’s rural hospitals face an uncertain future. One in three are now at risk of closure as doctors and nurses quit, patients struggle to pay the...

G'day and g'bye: it's the end for Neighbours

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After 37 years, the longest-running drama in Australian TV history is coming to an end.We ask why the Neighbours funding model ultimately failed. We s...

The women breaking into skateboarding in South Africa

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Skateboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in the world; it was included for the first time in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan. It's bec...

Women, sport and business: Making NBA history

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our mini-series on women, sport and business we meet Cynt Marshall. She's the chief executive officer of the Dallas Mavericks and the first...

Commonwealth Games 2022: the most sustainable ever?

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Commonwealth Games 2022 is coming to England's second biggest city, Birmingham, which is home to almost six million people and more than 450,000 b...

How Kenyan farmers are adapting to climate change

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change - which the United Nations defines as long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns - is a growing global problem, particularly...

Business Daily meets: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw trained as a master brewer, but in late-1970s India she was rejected by the beer industry – it wasn’t seen as a job for a woma...

Fertility problems and pesticides in Panama

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Grace Livingstone investigates the ongoing case a group of men in Panama have brought against banana firms. We hear from two of the men who claim they...

Women, sport and business: Media deals

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Business Daily, the latest in our series on women, sport and business, we’re looking at the media. With women’s sport account...

How virtual reality is changing healthcare

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By 2024, virtual reality is expected to reach a value of $1.2bn in the healthcare sector alone – and it’s already seeing adoption in major public ...

Military contracts in India

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of people want to work in the military in India – the jobs offered security, prospects and a gold-plated pension. But a new Government plan to ...

Lollywood or Bollywood?

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We take a look at the fortunes of Bollywood and Lollywood post pandemic. We’ll ask what the future holds for the film industries of India and Pakist...

What's going on with weightlifting?

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ashish Sharma explores the problems facing one of the world’s oldest sports.A governance crisis has engulfed the sport of weightlifting and it faces...

Women, sport and business: Merchandise

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Business Daily, the latest in our series on women, sport and business, it's all about the merch.We'll explore how important replica...

Making money out of 'kid-fluencers'

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a proud sharent? That is a parent who loves to post about your child online. Some have even turned it into a lucrative business, with incomes ...

Pension dipping in Peru and Chile

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Millions of people in Peru and Chile have been allowed to empty their retirement pots to cope with Covid-19 and rising prices, putting the pension sys...

The business of streaming games

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We explore the world of video game streaming - where players connect their screens to platforms such as Twitch or YouTube so that fans can watch them ...

Brazil's election and the economy

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brazilians will go to the polls to elect their next president in October. With Jair Bolsonaro trailing in polls behind former leader Lula da Silva, ma...

Women, sport and business: Haley Rosen

06 Jul 2022

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To coincide with the start of the Women's Euros and the Africa Women Cup of Nations, Business Daily launches a new series on women, sport and business...

Are they listening?

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are they really listening to us via our mobile phones and other smart devices? Eavesdropping to find out more about our most personal tastes and habit...

Peat and the environment

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Fenwick explores why peat is such an important carbon store and whether it’s use in compost should be banned. Sam visits a peat bog in the UK an...

Business Daily meets: iPod and iPhone co-creator Tony Fadell

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Apple technology has revolutionised the world. The US company says there are now more than 1.5 billion Apple devices in active use globally - a billio...

Cost of living: Mechanics

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Business Daily mini series we're exploring how businesses we all use regularly are being affected by the cost of living crisis.Leanna Byrne an...

Cost of living: Farmers and food producers

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Business Daily mini series we're exploring how businesses we all use regularly are being affected by the cost of living crisis. Leanna Byrne g...

Cost of living: Bakeries

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Business Daily mini series we're exploring how businesses we all use regularly are being affected by the cost of living crisis. This episode l...

Cost of living: Hairdressers

25 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Business Daily mini series we're exploring how businesses we all use regularly are being affected by the cost of living crisis. This episode l...

Business Daily meets: Tech entrepreneur Frederic Kerrest

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tech entrepreneur Frederic Kerrest tells Sam Clack how he helped to build the multi-billion dollar tech company, Okta, from scratch.He goes through th...

Love in virtual reality

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We take a look at the companies moving the business of love to the metaverse. Hannah Mullane meets Aurora Townsend, co-founder of the world’s first ...

Race and DNA ancestry tests

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Find out more about the DNA ancestry company aiming to increase its appeal across a wider range of ethnic groups. They're attempting to correct the ra...

The club teaching women to say 'no' at work

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ever heard of the term non-promotable task? Well, if you’re a woman, the chances are you’ve been doing a lot of them at work. Leanna Byrne speaks ...

Floriade: A green global exhibition

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Floriade is a huge horticulture exhibition taking place every 10 years. It's in the Dutch city of Almere this year. For 6 months, visitors will see di...

The race to stop a Red Sea oil catastrophe

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the many casualties of the war in Yemen is the FSO Safer, a floating storage facility which holds one million barrels of crude oil. No maintena...

El Salvador’s Bitcoin gamble

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Tidy travels to El Salvador where almost everything can be paid for using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. After President Bukele invested heavily in B...

The adaptive fashion revolution

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adaptive fashion, or stylish clothes for people who have a disability have not always been widely available, especially for those who use a wheelchair...

Communities bringing down energy bills

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the community groups trying to make energy more accessible and affordable. Laura Heighton-Ginns visits a fuel poverty workshop in the UK and hear...

Egg freezing: the ultimate workplace perk?

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Singapore has become the latest country to allow egg freezing for non-medical reasons. That is a method of preserving a woman’s fertility so she can...

Million by 30: Elwinder Singh

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As part of the Business Daily series Million by 30, Sam Fenwick meets Elwinder Singh and hears the story behind his private healthcare company Connect...

The emerging market for energy storage

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oil and gas prices have risen sharply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and as a result many countries have signalled a move towards more renewabl...

Is a rare carbon sink under threat in the DRC?

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dense tropical rainforest in central Africa's Congo Basin is humid and rainy for much of the year. Underfoot lies one of the world’s biggest carbon ...

Working in India's heatwave

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For the last couple of months India has been experiencing an absolutely blistering heatwave. The capital Delhi has seen temperatures hit record highs ...

Business Daily meets: Bank of England economists

06 Jun 2022

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As part of the Business Daily Meets strand we speak to Rupal Patel and Jack Meaning, senior economists at the Bank of England. They have written a boo...

Million by 30: Amarachi Nwosu

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As part of the Business Daily series Million by 30 we speak to Amarachi Nwosu, a filmmaker who wanted to look at race in Japan from a different angle....

Excluded from digital banking

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With more and more of our financial lives moving online, we ask whether some people are getting left behind. Claire Williamson investigates whether so...

Business Daily meets: Kevin Rudd

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd tells Rahul Tandon about running a two trillion dollar economy, and how he responded to the 2007-2008 fina...

Online advertising fraud

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The global online ad racket; Ed Butler investigates how criminals are ripping off advertising firms to the tune of billions every year.Andrew Lissimor...

Inside Gazprom

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2002, Lesley Curwen arrived in Siberia to see the inner workings of Gazprom. Hear how she found a business that felt more like an empire of its own...

Million by 30: Sharon Tseung

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In latest episode of our series Million by 30 – Sam Fenwick is joined by Sharon Tsueng. Sharon is a former high school chess teacher, a marketing sp...

Insolvency and the pandemic

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During the coronavirus pandemic governments around the world pumped billions into their economies. Propping up businesses and trying to make sure peop...

Girls, beauty and advertising

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

More than ever girls are bombarded by images that have been curated, filtered and touched up. How can we help girls decode those images and understand...

The women leading Africa’s FinTech boom

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Finance has traditionally been dominated by men. But now that’s starting to change. We talk to the female entrepreneurs in Africa who are using fina...

La Liga's record deal

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spain's top division La Liga has signed a record investment deal with CVC Capital Partners. Ashish Sharma looks at the terms of the deal - which means...