Wake Up To Money

06/01/2026

06 Jan 2026

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News and insight from the business world. Download the podcast via the BBC Sounds app.

What's next for Venezuela's oil?

05 Jan 2026

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The US has pledged billions of dollars to revive Venezuela's ailing oil industry, but what do the experts think of the plan's chances of success? Plus...

New year, same economy

02 Jan 2026

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Leanna Byrne looks at what's in store for the UK's economy in 2026 and asks what the next 12 months might bring for London's financial markets.Elsewhe...

Eurotrashed?

31 Dec 2025

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Tens of thousands of passengers on the Eurostar have been unable to make their journeys after a power outage - Sean Farrington hears how it's been imp...

Sir Alec Reed

30 Dec 2025

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On Wake Up To Money, we talk a lot about jobs, wages and the labour market. And we often hear from the bosses of some of our biggest recruitment firms...

Tension on the Chain

30 Dec 2025

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The technology arm of Octopus Energy is worth billions of pounds in itself as the company raises new investment.It's crunch time for many suppliers in...

Last Orders

29 Dec 2025

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It's been a tricky year for many hospitality businesses; Will Bain hears from a panel of pub and restaurant owners to look back - and forwards - on ho...

Tax relief and Christmas peak

24 Dec 2025

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We gauge reaction to the u-turn on the inheritance tax hike on farms & business assets. Will Bain also reflects on a massive year for Birmingham's...

Defence delays

23 Dec 2025

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Following a delay to the Defence Investment Plan, what does the lack of certainty mean? Will Bain also looks into the ongoing impact of botched insula...

Room at the Inn?

22 Dec 2025

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How has this Christmas worked out for the hospitality business? Will Bain talks festive trade with a hotelier. Also, we talk about some new research i...

Better Rate Than Never?

19 Dec 2025

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After the second monthly inflation figure in a row came in lower than expected and the Bank of England cut interest rates this week, Will Bain is join...

Santa tightens his belt

18 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington looks ahead to the Bank of England's latest interest rate decision. Meanwhile, as the Employment Rights Bill gets Royal Assent, we'll ...

Test Target Trouble

17 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington looks at the long wait for a driving test in England, Scotland and Wales. Plus, what does England's performance in Australia mean for ...

Crypto concerns

16 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington takes a look at the financial regulator's plans for cryptocurrencies. Also on the programme - as an investigation into record unemploy...

Flu season

15 Dec 2025

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Felicity Hannah hears how businesses can respond to staff calling in sick during the flu outbreak, and why some pharmacies are experiencing a shortage...

Melting Point

12 Dec 2025

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Felicity Hannah speaks to the CEO of the Magnum Ice Cream Company as it finishes its first week as a listed company. Plus, what does the latest Knives...

Golden Tickets

11 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington looks at the US Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates and what that could mean for the Bank of England.We talk to the outgo...

Cocoa Hops

10 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington discusses the rising bills that could hit the pub sector, in the wake of business rates changes. Elsewhere, he'll turn his attention t...

Going hostile

09 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington looks at Paramount's $108bn hostile bid, as the battle for Warner Brothers continues to heat up.Elsewhere, he'll be discussing a bill ...

Netflix & Bill

08 Dec 2025

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Will Bain discusses the Employment Rights Bill as it heads back to the Commons.Elsewhere, he'll look ahead to the first day of trading for the brand n...

Books, shelves & elves

05 Dec 2025

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Felicity Hannah hears from the boss of Waterstones and gets an update from Tunbridge Wells.Elsewhere, the reviews website Trustpilot's share price has...

Wake Up to Cricket

04 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington hears about the business of cricket as the 2nd Ashes Test match commences. We speak to a business owner in Tunbridge Wells as water ou...

Cloudy with a chance of growth?

03 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington hears why the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has upgraded UK growth but warns Rachel Reeves that higher taxes a...

Office for Bodged Responsibility

02 Dec 2025

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Sean Farrington explores why Richard Hughes has quit as head of the OBR after a Budget-day publishing blunder, and what it means for trust in the watc...

Reeves' headroom headache

01 Dec 2025

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Will Bain speaks to a former Treasury economist about the claims Chancellor Rachel Reeves misled the public over stronger OBR forecasts before her tax...

Too many rights make a wrong

28 Nov 2025

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The government has made an immediate U turn on one of its key employment-rights pledges announced in this weeks' budget. We ask why it's happened and ...

Bad Day At The Office (for Budget Responsibility)

27 Nov 2025

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Sean Farrington takes a panel of businesses, tax and economics experts to pore through the detail of the Chancellor's Autumn Budget 2025, including a ...

Budget Day 2025

26 Nov 2025

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Budget Day has arrived - Sean Farrington hears from businesses, individuals and listeners throughout the programme.That the National Living Wage will ...

25/11/2025

25 Nov 2025

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News and insight from the business world. Download the podcast via the BBC Sounds app.

24/11/2025

24 Nov 2025

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News and insight from the business world. Download the podcast via the BBC Sounds app.

Unpicking the COVID enquiry

21 Nov 2025

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Will Bain hears from analysts and businesses on the latest report from the Covid inquiry. Also, the Chief Executive of Getlink and the Eurotunnel join...

Nvidia keeps climbing

20 Nov 2025

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The world's biggest company, Nvidia, reports record financial results. Plus, what does the latest inflation figure tell us about the economy?

One week to go

19 Nov 2025

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Sean Farrington speaks to business leaders with one week to go until the Budget. Plus, high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, are taken down ...

If the bubble bursts?

18 Nov 2025

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The boss of Alphabet tells the BBC no company will be immune if the AI bubble bursts. Plus, reselling tickets to live events for a profit is to be ban...

Pizza peak?

17 Nov 2025

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Felicity Hannah looks at how pizza businesses in the UK are changing strategy. Plus, as resident doctor strikes continue, what are both sides saying a...

Off your bike?

14 Nov 2025

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Will Bain explores if two-wheeled commuters will pay the price in the budget, after reports suggest the Chancellor is planning to introduce a cap on t...

That's the ticket!

13 Nov 2025

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Sean Farrington looks at the return of nuclear power to Wales with the head of GB Energy - Nuclear. Elsewhere he hears from a business owner who's had...

Scrapping the cap?

12 Nov 2025

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Sean hears from those who have called for the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap ahead of the budget. After with yesterday's jobs data showing une...

The gold brick road

11 Nov 2025

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Sean looks at jump in the price of gold to a two week high as the US government seeks to end the federal shutdown.The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has g...

Your budget wish list

10 Nov 2025

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With the budget looming, Will Bain invites an economist to answer your budget queries. What would you like to hear from the Chancellor? And we find ou...

What's next for rates?

07 Nov 2025

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Budget and interest rate talk with our regular panel of experts - they tell Will Bain what they think might happen next. We hear too how the boss of o...

06/11/2025

06 Nov 2025

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News and insight from the business world. Download the podcast via the BBC Sounds app.

'Keep Britain Working'

05 Nov 2025

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More on a new report looking at getting people on long-term sick back into the office. We also have the latest from New York as the City decides its n...

Counter offensive

04 Nov 2025

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With more than 40% of shop staff facing abuse at the counter every week, Sean Farrington talks to workers, an investigator and a retail charity about ...

Running on empty?

03 Nov 2025

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Questions remain over the supply of Nexperia chips, with concerns for the car industry. Will Bain delves into what exactly's going on. We also look in...

Trick or £400m Treat

31 Oct 2025

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Felicity Hannah looks at the government's energy-bill discount for energy intensive industries, helping around 500 businesses and saving up to £420 m...

The art of the deal

30 Oct 2025

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Sean Farrington gets the latest on crucial trade talks in South Korea. And, in a week of massive financial reports from some of the globe's biggest te...

Is AI coming for your job?

29 Oct 2025

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Sean Farrington gets the latest on Hurricane Melissa and hears how AI is already coming for tech jobs at companies worth trillions of dollars - so how...

Mind the gap

28 Oct 2025

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A downgrade in the UK's economic forecast could mean a larger than expected gap in the numbers Chancellor Rachel Reeves has to play with in her budget...

Going critical?

27 Oct 2025

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Will Bain with the details of a 'framework' for a likely compromise on trade talks between the US and China this week. Proposals include a deferral of...

Car Numbers Drop After JLR's Emergency Brake

24 Oct 2025

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The number of cars produced in the UK fell by a massive 27% last month, according to the industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders....

Business of Sport with Sean Farrington

03 Sep 2025

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Sean Farrington has a look at the money behind sport - this week: mass-participation events.It's big business - from the thousands of competitors that...

Business of Sport with Sean Farrington

20 Aug 2025

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Sean Farrington speaks to Andrew Georgiou, President & Managing Director of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe and Paul Barber, Chief Executive ...

Business of Sport with Sean Farrington

30 Jul 2025

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Sean Farrington speaks to owner of Worcester City Women FC Nicole Allison and former Head of Women’s Football at The Football Association of Wales L...

Business of Sport with Sean Farrington

23 Jul 2025

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Sean speaks to chief executive of British cycling brand Rapha, Fran Millar, and former World Cycling Road Race Champion and four-time British Road Rac...

Business of Sport with Sean Farrington

09 Jul 2025

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Sean takes a look at the rise of the use in technology in sport. From automated line-calling, VAR & AI data analytics - we ask how tech is shaping...

Business of Sport with Sean Farrington

02 Jul 2025

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Sean spoke to Padel boss Sam Kemp from R3 Sports, Women's football consultant Andrea Ekblad and sportswear company MandM Chairman Mike Tomkins

Review of the Business Year

26 Dec 2024

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Will Bain presents a review of the business year with some of our best interviews from 2024, featuring the biggest stories in money and business this ...

Shein Slammed

24 Sep 2024

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Sean Farrington sits down with Superdry boss Julian Dunkerton, who doesn't hold back on Shein. Plus The Friedkin Group has agreed a deal to buy Premie...

Trials and Tribunals

16 Sep 2024

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What do a football club, a media mogul and a social media giant all have in common?Fresh from another victory, Manchester City faces the start of hear...

Does rail funding need a revamp?

13 Sep 2024

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Felicity Hannah finds out if the private sector should fund a new rail link. And, after the success of the first spacewalk, is the sky the limit when ...

Trump v Harris

11 Sep 2024

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it’s just 8 weeks till the American Election and Trump and Harris go head to head in their first live TV debate. Plus the skills Olympics finally ge...

Apple: Intelligent Thinking?

10 Sep 2024

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Sean Farrington takes a look how Apple's latest gadgets will feature all things AI. Plus we find out why ASOS has been getting a lot of backlash onlin...

Building after Grenfell

05 Sep 2024

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Will Bain looks at what has to change in construction following the Grenfell Inquiry.Elsewhere, the Chief Executive of Mountain Warehouse speaks about...

The best of Wake Up To Money 2023

01 Jan 2024

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Will Bain looks back at some of the highlights from Wake Up To Money in 2023. There's the story of the takeover of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft in...

Wake Up To Money Special - Gary Neville

06 Jul 2023

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He's most famous for his football career and more recently, his punditry, but Gary Neville is also hugely successful in the worlds of business and pro...

Wake Up To Money - Elon Musk

12 Apr 2023

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The BBC's North America Technology Correspondent James Clayton talks exclusively to Elon Musk about Twitter. They discuss why he bought the social med...

Boardroom Stories: Sir Ian Livingston

29 Dec 2022

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Sir Ian Livingstone talks to Rahul Tandon about founding Games Workshop and the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons. He reveals his collection of hundr...

Million By 30: Timothy Armoo, part 2

17 Aug 2022

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Timothy Armoo talks to Sean Farrington about his decision to sell the business he founded in a multi-million pound deal. He discusses why he decided t...

Business of Sport: The Ashes

10 Dec 2021

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Rahul Tandon looks at the money behind The Ashes. He discusses how important sponsorship is in cricket, how to grow the fanbase and get more people in...

Boardroom Stories: Guy Hands, founder Terra Firma

12 Nov 2021

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One of the biggest names in the world in private equity, Guy Hands, talks candidly about what he calls 'going from hero to zero'. Speaking with Felici...

Boardroom Stories: John Lyttle, Chief Executive, Boohoo

11 Aug 2021

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John Lyttle, chief executive of Boohoo, tells Sean Farrington about the company's massive growth and future expansion plans. He says the company doesn...

Business of Sport: Tokyo Olympics

23 Jul 2021

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Felicity Hannah looks at how the Olympic games are financed and the competitors are funded. She's joined by Sir Keith Mills, former Deputy Chair of Lo...

The Origins of Reebok

15 Jun 2021

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Joe Foster, founder of Reebok talks with Sean Farrington and Reggie Nelson about creating one of the world's biggest brands. From the origins of a fam...

Million By 30: Roei Samuel

09 Jun 2021

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Roei Samuel talks to Sean Farrington about setting up e-sports business Real Sport which he sold in a multi-million pound deal and about how having AD...

Million By 30: Tom Beahon, co-founder Castore

23 May 2021

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Tom and Phil Beahon set up their sportswear brand Castore in Liverpool after their professional sporting careers came to an end. They chat with Sean a...

Million By 30: CC Clarke

25 Apr 2021

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CC Clarke talks to Sean Farrington talks about growing her fanbase to more than two million followers and setting up her make-up business. She discuss...

Business of Sport: Future of Football

21 Apr 2021

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After the collapse of plans for a European Super League, Sean Farrington discusses the future of football with current and former club bosses, fans an...

Million By 30: Grace Beverley, influencer and founder of sustainable style brand TALA

19 Mar 2021

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Sean Farrington chats with Grace Beverley about how she built up a million followers on Instagram before going on to launch her own fitness brand Shre...

Million By 30: Chester Mojay-Sinclare, founder and chief executive of Enthuse

12 Mar 2021

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Sean Farrington chats with Chester Mojay-Sinclare who first got his business off the ground by launching a potato into space. Eleven years later, he h...

Million By 30: Jenna Brown, co-founder and chief executive of Shipamax

26 Feb 2021

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How Jenna Brown turned her passion for start-ups into a multi-million backed business.

Million By 30: Alex Lovén, founder of Net World Sports

19 Feb 2021

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Sean Farrington chats with Alex Lovén, who started selling cricket bats when he was 13 to his mates at school, graduated to selling the bats on eBay ...

Million By 30: Kofi McCalla, The Unknown Vlogs

12 Feb 2021

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Kofi McCalla, a menswear fashion YouTuber, on how he hit over 100 million views. If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast...

Million By 30: Liberty Foreman, CEO and founder of DynamXMedical

18 Jan 2021

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Sean Farrington interviews Liberty Foreman, who started up a cancer screening tech company DynamX Medical by spinning it out from her PhD. Since then ...

Million By 30: Maciek Kacprzyk and Karina Sudenyte, founders of Flawsome!

11 Jan 2021

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Sean Farrington interviews Maciek Kacprzyk and Karina Sudenyte, the founders of Flawsome!, a food waste company that saves wonky fruit from landfill a...

Million By 30: Timothy Armoo, chief executive of Fanbytes

01 Dec 2020

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The story of how 26-year-old Timothy Armoo built a million-pound marketing business.

Million By 30: Adnan Ebrahim, founder of Car Throttle

20 Nov 2020

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Sean Farrington chats with Adnan Ebrahim who sold his first website before he was 18. He then founded Car Throttle, which quickly reached millions of ...

Business of Sport: Rugby World Cup

11 Oct 2019

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Sean Farrington looks at the money behind the Rugby World Cup in Japan including how can smaller countries break into the top tier of the game.

Business of Sport: The Price of Gold

30 Aug 2019

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It's a year until the Tokyo Olympics will be getting underway. The British Olympics Association has told us it could be one of the most expensive yet....

Business of Sport: Not just about the scores

09 Aug 2019

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Sean and Mickey look at how sport is being reported off the pitch, from long reads to podcasts to social media.

Business of Sport: eSports

02 Aug 2019

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The industry is worth over $1bn globally. Is it time to take gaming as a competitive activity a bit more seriously?

Boardroom Stories: Sanjeev Gupta, Liberty Steel

27 Dec 2018

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Danni Hewson talks with Sanjeev Gupta, boss of one of the world's largest steel producers Liberty Steel.

Boardroom Stories: Co-Op

03 Dec 2018

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Chief Executive of the Co-Operative Group, Steve Murrells talks with Danni Hewson about supermarkets; funerals and schools and how it's recovered from...

Boardroom Stories: Lovehoney

20 Nov 2018

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Lovehoney co-founders Neal Slateford and Richard Longhurst talk about developing their online sex toy company, meeting the Queen and adapting their bu...

Boardroom Stories: Paul Pomroy, McDonald's UK

31 Jul 2018

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Wake Up To Money's Sean Farrington meets Paul Pomroy, the Chief Executive of McDonald's for the UK and Ireland to discuss the High Street crisis; plas...

Boardroom Stories: Linda Jackson, Citroen

20 Jul 2018

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Linda Jackson, Chief Executive of Citroen talks about women in the car industry, electric cars and whether the 2CV could ever make a comeback.

Boardroom Stories: Rob Stringer of Sony Music Entertainment

05 Jul 2018

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Working with David Bowie on one of pop’s best kept secrets and how he won George Michael back after the star’s bitter split from Sony.

Boardroom Stories: Pure Gym

19 Jun 2018

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Humphrey Cobbold, boss of Pure Gym talks to Sean Farrington about how the chain has gone from zero to a million members in less than a decade.Plus how...

Boardroom Stories: Intu's David Fischel

09 Apr 2018

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The boss of the company which owns some of the UK’s biggest shopping centres tells Wake Up To Money’s Mickey Clarke that retail is alive and kicki...

Boardroom Stories: Marston's Ralph Findlay

02 Mar 2018

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Marston's Chief Executive Ralph Findlay, Quality not quantity: How drinkers’ tastes have changed and why so many restaurants are struggling at the m...