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Why you buy what you buy
Jan 29, 2026We lift the curtain on how everyone from toothpaste brands to the United Nations is using science to influence your choices in ways you’re probably not aware of. Behavioural science has even made its ...
Copper theft: A growing economic problem
Jan 28, 2026Demand has been surging for copper around the world - from renewable energy projects, to AI data centres, to infrastructure networks. Production, however, has struggled to keep pace, pushing prices c...
How country music became cool
Jan 27, 2026Country music is in the midst of a grand renaissance. The genre - whose popularity was previously confined to the American South - is now climbing the charts, grabbing the attention of Gen Z audiences...
How global conflict is changing air travel
Jan 26, 2026One of the world’s largest airline groups has told Business Daily that airspace closures, due to war zones, are now forcing substantial rerouting of flights. Lufthansa says the ban on using Russian a...
Lew Frankfort: Building a billion-dollar brand
Jan 23, 2026When Lew Frankfort joined Coach, it was a family run, wholesale handbag business worth six million dollars. He spent 35 years at the company, from opening the company's first shop to growing the busin...
Can an island of flowers become a global chip hub?
Jan 22, 2026Forty years ago Japan made more than half of the world's semiconductors. Today, it produces just over 10%. But the country has big ambitions to turn that around. We hear from the CEO of a company at t...
Slovakia: Small country, auto giant
Jan 21, 2026When Slovakia was part of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the cars it made were noisy, thirsty and slow by western standards at the time. But when Volkswagen bought the car-maker Skoda, that was ...
America's affordability question
Jan 20, 2026In the second of two programmes, we look at Donald Trump's record on the economy one year into his second presidential term. Today, we are asking is the United States still facing a cost of living cru...
Life after DOGE
Jan 19, 2026Twelve months into Donald Trump’s second term as President, we examine what it’s meant for the US workforce. For government workers it has been a year of cuts, sackings and Elon Musk’s now disbanded D...
CEO of the Folio Society, Joanna Reynolds
Jan 16, 2026We meet retail turnaround expert Joanna Reynolds, the woman behind the revival of the Folio Society, one of Britain’s oldest publishing houses. Ten years ago, the company was losing money and facing ...