Money

Why the Price Cap rise is voluntary! £87bn of lost pensions & accounts. Reclaim student loans

Martin explains what the future holds for your energy bills and how to reclaim lost money

04 Jun 2026,·63 mins

Trainer Wars

What goes into making a pair of trainers and why are some of them so expensive to buy?

04 Jun 2026,·36 mins

Eye on AI

Will Bain wraps up a big week in the AI race.

05 Jun 2026,·52 mins

Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes

Tim Harford investigates migration and housing, Welsh literacy, and bond market drama

03 Jun 2026,·28 mins

Civil Service Pension Debacle and Cheaper Energy?

Union calls for Capita to lose its contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme

30 May 2026,·24 mins

How karate helped a shy kid transform how India pays

Harshil Mathur on building Razorpay into one of India’s biggest payments companies

05 Jun 2026,·17 mins

Why water bottles have been given a red card by Fifa?

Refillable Water bottles shown the red card at the world cup by Fifa

04 Jun 2026,·26 mins

#42 Hinge CEO: The Cost of Living Crunch Is Changing How We Date

Jackie Jantos on AI-assisted dating, Gen Z loneliness and the rise of the daytime date.

03 Jun 2026,·57 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

US jobs growth way better than expected

The world’s biggest economy added way more jobs in May than economists had forecast

05 Jun 2026,·9 mins

Episode 3: The Politics

What are the politics behind tax policy?

03 Nov 2025,·42 mins

Episode 2

Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.

04 Oct 2011,·45 mins

Omnibus Episode 2

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

05 Aug 2016,·58 mins

The Parenting Coach: Aman Kaur

Aman Kaur tells Harleen Nottay how she became The Parenting Coach.

01 Jun 2026,·30 mins

Hunting the Truth

Were the banks telling the truth about their role in the financial crash of 2008?

04 Mar 2022,·14 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

Wills and Inheritance Tax

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

29 Apr 2015,·30 mins

5. The £10 Billion Fridge

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

04 Apr 2025,·14 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

Economic Growth

Martha Kearney and Dharshini David go back to the economic basics.

28 Oct 2022,·14 mins

Episode 4

In the wake of Covid-19, what does the future hold?

02 Oct 2020,·28 mins

Birds, Bees and Business - Why Nature Matters (With The Wildlife Trusts and Landsec)

Deborah's barefoot walk, The Wildlife Trusts and one of the country's biggest landlords

14 Apr 2023,·46 mins

When Geeks Took Over Poker

Tim Harford tells the story of Chris Ferguson, who applied game theory to poker, and won.

13 Feb 2013,·15 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

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

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis

‘Just because you passionately believe in it, that doesn't make it a good idea’.

12 Feb 2021,·28 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

Is Your House TV-Ready?

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

30 Jan 2026,·5 mins

Christmas Special: Live music, Surviving retail, Finding a job

Sean, Reggie and Fran get together and catch up with previous guests.

21 Dec 2020,·56 mins