Money

Carers' Pensions and Face-to-Face Banking

How caring for a loved one can impact your pension.

23 May 2026,·24 mins

Big Energy Bill Hikes Coming: Should You Fix Now, Even If You’re Already Fixed?

Martin explains what the future holds for your energy bills.

21 May 2026,·59 mins

Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?

We investigate if loneliness is increasing at epidemic rates

23 May 2026,·8 mins

#39 Amazon UK Boss: Make Work Experience Mandatory for Over-16s

John Boumphrey, Amazon's UK Boss calls for mandatory work experience for all over-16s

21 May 2026,·49 mins

Chemical Reaction

The Chancellor has announced support for the UK's chemical industries - but is it enough?

22 May 2026,·25 mins

US Federal Reserve appoints new chair

Kevin Warsh becomes new chair at a ceremony at the White House.

22 May 2026,·26 mins

Hike, Cut or Hold? What will the new Fed head do on interest rates

Kevin Warsh becomes the 17th Chair of the US Central Bank when sworn in later

22 May 2026,·8 mins

Can the global economy go plastic free?

Plastic enables trade and modern medicine but our reliance on it presents challanges

25 May 2026,·17 mins

Episode 3: The Politics

What are the politics behind tax policy?

03 Nov 2025,·42 mins

Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

How animals make us smarter – we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode

22 Jul 2021,·18 mins

Wills and Inheritance Tax

Financial phone-in. Paul Lewis and guests answer queries about wills and inheritance tax.

29 Apr 2015,·30 mins

Entrepreneurs: Your Questions Answered

Three top entrepreneurs answer your questions about starting and managing a business.

05 Mar 2026,·36 mins

5. The £10 Billion Fridge

Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.

04 Apr 2025,·14 mins

Botswana: God Wants You to Be Wealthy

The country's relatively strong economy has created a new breed of consumer

25 Jan 2006,·22 mins

Cinderella

Writer Lucy Mangan turns to fairy tales in a search for literary solutions to the economy.

29 Aug 2014,·15 mins

French Economist Thomas Piketty

Economist Thomas Piketty on the gap between the global rich and poor, tax and capitalism

25 Dec 2014,·55 mins

Sixties and Beyond

Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today.

24 Aug 2016,·28 mins

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

How much does the state of our teeth depend on what's in our bank balance?

19 Jul 2018,·53 mins

Series 1

Coffins Full of Car Keys

Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.

29 Aug 2018,·26 mins

The pub is dead! Long live the micropub!

British pubs have been closing down but a new type of pub - the micropub - is popping up.

15 Feb 2020,·26 mins

Episode 5

Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.

02 Aug 2024,·14 mins

Mumbai

Hardeep tests his talents at the Mumbai Comedy Store.

07 Oct 2011,·30 mins

Monsters

Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.

30 Mar 2011,·30 mins

18. Series 1 Debrief

What we've learnt throughout the series.

10 Feb 2020,·24 mins

Your Money in Shanghai

Credit card mania is on the rise in China but are people living beyond their means?

13 Nov 2013,·44 mins

Turkey - Beyond the Silk Road

Jim O'Neill asks if Turkey's future still depends on its advantageous location.

09 Jan 2014,·42 mins

Omnibus Episode 2

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.

05 Aug 2016,·58 mins

Is Your House TV-Ready?

How your house could end up on TV and make you money.

30 Jan 2026,·5 mins

Creating books for children: Sharika Chauhan

Sharika Chauhan chats to Harleen Nottay about creating a series of books for children.

11 May 2026,·30 mins

Cheap British Beer

The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.

15 Nov 2024,·14 mins