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The nappy problem
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Billions of disposable nappies, or diapers, are produced every year and sales are booming. Most go to landfill, some pollute rivers and oceans and a b...
Why does India have so many female pilots?
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At 12.4%, India has the highest percentage of female pilots in the world. In this episode, Olivia Wilson speaks to female pilots and industry experts ...
Tackling the global food crisis in 2023
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new president of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, Alvaro Lario tells us why the pandemic, war in Ukraine and cl...
Why is Nashville a magnet for entrepreneurs?
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Small businesses create nearly two-thirds of new jobs in the workforce and account for 44% of US economic activity. So what's the secret to their succ...
China's Covid nightmare: Can Beijing bounce back?
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
China has this week reopened its borders for the first time in nearly three years. There have been scenes of joy and relief for many Chinese citizens ...
The return to burning wood
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wood sales for heating have been growing across Europe, but as demand increases people are facing rising prices and reports of firewood theft. Busines...
Who is Jack Ma?
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Ma is China's best-known entrepreneur, an English teacher who became a billionaire, after he founded the e-commerce giant Alibaba. However in Ju...
Business and conscription in Russia
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Victoriya Holland investigates how businesses in Russia are surviving, as tens of thousands of men of working age are called up by the government to f...
Women, sport and business: Making NBA history
06 Jan 2023
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...
Women, sport and business: Betting
05 Jan 2023
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...
Women, sport and business: Media deals
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the second programme of our series on women, sport and business, we’re looking at the media. With women’s sport accounting for only around 5% o...
Women, sport and business: Haley Rosen
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This year sees one of the biggest global events in women’s sport – the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. It follows a very success...
Review of 2022
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Business Daily reviews one of the most important 12 months for the world of money and work on record. Big economic news has dominated in 2022. We saw ...
Money jobs: Inside the auction house
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the last episode in our five-part Business Daily series all about high-value, high-transaction jobs you might read about, see on the TV or glam...
Money jobs: The reality for realtors
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode four of our Business Daily series all about high value, high transaction jobs you might read about, see on the TV or glamorised in fil...
Money jobs: The truth about trading
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all love a good financial film, we might not all fully understand what’s going on the whole time, but they’re always really intense with a make...
Money jobs: Cashing or crashing with crypto
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Crypto is a tricky business. Chances are, you know someone or know of someone who's made a bit of money with crypto, and that you’re not too far rem...
Money jobs: Making money on the tables
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever thought about quitting your job and playing poker for a living? Well, today we find out what it’s really like making your living on the tables....
The rising stars of football and their money
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The World Cup is a catwalk of footballing talent. Lesser known players are thrust into the spot light and launched onto the global soccer scene often ...
Toy trends: Are people still spending?
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas and the holiday season is a crucial time for toy retailers, and hopes will be high for sales to return to pre-pandemic levels. But with the ...
What's happened to the titans of big tech?
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Big tech is facing a big moment. With plummeting stock prices, and mass lay-offs, the likes of Google, Twitter and Meta are all - for different reason...
Nollywood: Nigeria's billion dollar film industry
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nigeria’s film industry, known as Nollywood is the second largest film industry in the world and has overtaken Hollywood in terms of the quantity of...
Regulating online gambling
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Online gambling’s success has pushed global valuations of the industry to around half a trillion dollars for 2022 - but the accessibility of its dig...
Beauty Costs: Girls, beauty and advertising
02 Dec 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...
Beauty Costs: Why is Korean skincare so popular?
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode of our Beauty Costs series, we’re looking at a part of the beauty world that’s worth over ten billion dollars.K-beauty is one...
Beauty costs: Beauty disruptor brands
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The beauty industry was once a world dominated by a handful of names, but quickly and quietly, hundreds of smaller brands have managed to make a name ...
Beauty costs: A spotlight on skin lightening
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Products that claim to lighten skin are often physically harmful, often containing toxic chemicals and dangerous ingredients. We look at why skin ligh...
Beauty costs: How do you create a beauty empire? With Marcia Kilgore
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps you have heard of Marcia Kilgore, or maybe not, but if you’re a woman, a beauty junkie, or just love shoes, you are likely to have heard of ...
Business Daily Meets: Krept
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UK-based rapper Krept grew up in a culture of gang violence, but has carved out a career for himself as a successful musician and entrepreneur. As one...
Growing opposition to mining in Panama
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We look at growing opposition to mining in Latin America. The region is a leading producer of copper, silver, iron and lithium. But the environmental ...
Napping on the job
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Weitzmann explores whether a quick nap break at work could make us all more productive. We head to Beijing where an employee tells us about he...
Floriade: Was it worth it?
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Floriade is one of the world's biggest gardening and horticulture expos - and it has cost taxpayers in the Dutch city of Almere nine times as much as ...
Business Daily Meets: Mathieu Flamini
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
International footballer Mathieu Flamini started a biotech company when he was still a professional player. Speaking to Sam Fenwick, Flamini reveals w...
Business Daily Meets: Patrice Evra
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of the 2022 World Cup Final Sam Fenwick speaks to former professional footballer, Patrice Evra. He made more than 80 appearances for the Fr...
Reinventing recycling in Louisiana
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz decided to start a recycling project in New Orleans after realising the city sent all its glass to landfill. Now th...
The cost of rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Business Daily we get on board The Ocean Viking, a migrant rescue boat operated by the non-governmental organisations SOS Méditerr...
Africa Super League – new dawn for football?
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Confederation of African Football, CAF, with the backing of FIFA, has launched a new Super League aimed at injecting much-needed funds to clubs on the...
Business Daily Meets: Nico Rosberg
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Theo Leggett meets Nico Rosberg, who found fame and fortune in the fossil-fuelled world of F1, but is now reinventing himself as a champion of green t...
Business Daily Meets: Boyan Slat
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you clean the world's oceans of plastic? 10 years ago, when he was just 18, Dutchman Boyan Slat thought he knew how to do it, and set out his v...
Rebuilding lives after flooding in Pakistan
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many communities in Pakistan were completely destroyed when vast areas of the country were hit by catastrophic flooding this summer. 33 million people...
The Morality of Machines
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From search engines to chatbots to driverless taxis – artificial intelligence is increasingly a part of our daily lives. But is it always ethical? ...
Africa’s Middlemen: Rent-seekers or cultural brokers?
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Middlemen are intermediaries who facilitate business interactions for a commission, but in Africa their role is more complex. Africa's middlemen divid...
How much is it costing fans to go to Qatar?
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
About 1.5 million fans, a little more than half the population of Qatar, are expected to arrive in the tiny Gulf state for the 2022 World Cup. Two wee...
Women in business in Qatar
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How easy is it for a woman to start and run a business in Qatar? In the past few years, there have been changes to the constitution and laws which hav...
Qatar’s World Cup tourism gamble
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will a boost in visitors for the Qatar World Cup lead to more visitors in the long run? Qatar has spent over $220bn on preparations for the football ...
Qatar: The migrant workers behind the World Cup
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Workers from countries such as Nepal have done the bulk of the work to build the stadiums and infrastructure for the Qatar World Cup. But there are di...
Business Daily Meets: Jason Bell
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Samira Hussain visits the New York studio of one of the most in demand photographers in the world, Jason Bell.Jason has photographed some of the world...
Sri Lanka: Life after an economic crisis
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2022, Sri Lanka was gripped by a major economic crisis. Prices were rising sharply, protests started in the capital, Colombo,and spread acros...
A special interview with the boss of the World Bank
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a wide ranging interview, David Malpass, president of the World Bank, speaks to presenter Sam Fenwick about the global economic situation.He talks ...
The rise and fall of the hot tub
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In mid-2021 hot tub companies were king. Unprecedented demand through covid pushed up sales as people stayed at home. Some of Europe's well known sup...
Business Daily Meets: Dr Natalie Kenny
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re conducting a scientific experiment, you must prepare for it to fail.Lab researchers work by this motto. But for Dr Natalie Kenny, founde...
How social media is changing farming in Kenya
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We hear from some of the many small-scale farmers in Kenya who are using apps like What’sApp, Facebook and Instagram to share information about the ...
How students' right to earn shook up US sport
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
University sport in the US has become huge business. For decades, students' share of those earnings only came in the form of scholarships. As televisi...
Why men don’t want to work any more
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As many as 7 million Americans who could work, aren’t. These are people who have dropped out of the workforce - they have given up on finding a j...
Greensill: What went wrong?
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Greensill Capital was a UK based finance firm and a darling of investors which made its money by lending to businesses. It went into administration i...
Will a multibillion dollar project get Americans back on trains?
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New York’s Penn Station is the busiest transport hub in the United States - as many as 650,000 people pass through it in a day. But this intercity h...
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?...