Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.
Find out how to listen to other BBC stations
Question Time: Beginner investor: explain the risk? Faulty kitchen: getting money back? Self-employed: how to start a pension?
Martin Lewis answering questions on investing, pensions and consumer rights.
18 May 2026,·38 mins
Premier prices?
UK supermarkets are being urged by the government to cap food prices.
20 May 2026,·53 mins
Lack of Wills and "Savvy Squirrel"
Are you one of the millions of people in the UK without plans in place for when you die?
16 May 2026,·24 mins
Why did a former Google CEO get booed?
Eric Schmidt is heckled at a graduation; we find out why from a student in the room.
19 May 2026,·26 mins
Are refugees more likely to commit crime?
Asylum seekers, nuclear power plants and fish, Sir David Attenborough and blue tit chicks
20 May 2026,·28 mins
Trump v The US Federal Reserve
Trump's pick for the US Fed chair risks rebuke from the president if rates do not fall
20 May 2026,·19 mins
#38 Raspberry Pi Founder: People Overestimate What AI Can Do
Dr Eben Upton says people are very inclined to overestimate what these tools can do.
14 May 2026,·45 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
Entrepreneurs: Your Questions Answered
Three top entrepreneurs answer your questions about starting and managing a business.
05 Mar 2026,·36 mins
Episode 3: The Politics
What are the politics behind tax policy?
03 Nov 2025,·42 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
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
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis
‘Just because you passionately believe in it, that doesn't make it a good idea’.
12 Feb 2021,·28 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
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 mins
Phone-in edition
Stephanie Flanders and an expert panel answer your economics questions in a live phone-in.
23 Apr 2013,·28 mins
The Shift
Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Monsters
Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.
30 Mar 2011,·30 mins
Sixties and Beyond
Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today.
24 Aug 2016,·28 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
Episode 2
Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s.
10 Feb 2015,·28 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
18. Series 1 Debrief
What we've learnt throughout the series.
10 Feb 2020,·24 mins
Cinderella
Writer Lucy Mangan turns to fairy tales in a search for literary solutions to the economy.
29 Aug 2014,·15 mins
Career changes: Taking the leap
Love Island's Jay Younger looks at the transferable skills that have helped him at work.
26 Sep 2022,·27 mins
Going for Growth
How might the most important idea for business change and adapt in the next decade?
31 Jan 2025,·14 mins
Mumbai
Hardeep tests his talents at the Mumbai Comedy Store.
07 Oct 2011,·30 mins
