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**The World of Business**

Insights into the business world – featuring content from BBC Radio 4’s In Business programme, and also Global Business from the BBC World Service.

Latest Episodes:

Raghuram Rajan May 23, 2014

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Peter Day talks to Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

In Business: Packaging in a Pickle May 22, 2014

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Modern living generates increasing amounts of packaging to wrap up the things we buy. That generates widespread criticism of an industry. Peter Day invetigates.

Sharing Economy 2: Rachel Botsman May 16, 2014

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Rachel Botsman is a guru on the sharing economy. She coined the phrase ‘collaborative consumption’ and is the author of the influential book ‘What’s Mine is Yours’. In Global Business this week, Peter Day talks with Rachel about this movement: how it puts twentieth century consumerism in a whole different light, its economic implications for this century and the stumbling blocks along the way.

In Business: Price Conscious May 15, 2014

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Manufacturers were banned by law from fixing retail prices 50 years ago, ushering in a revolution in British retailing. So what do prices mean now? Peter Day finds out.

In Business: The Sharing Economy May 08, 2014

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Sharing your neighbour's car, tools and clothes: the sharing economy. But existing regulations and laws are set up for hotels and car hire companies, and that is causing problems.

In Business: Battery Matters May 01, 2014

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What are businesses doing to reinvent the battery?

Korea Change: The end of the South Korea model? Apr 24, 2014

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South Korea has gone through a huge transformation in the last sixty years. But as Peter Day reports it may be time for this driven country to change direction. Producer: Charlotte Pritchard

In Business: Has the book a future? Apr 17, 2014

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Amidst mergers, ebooks, and self-publishing the book business is in the throes of upheaval. From the London Book Fair Peter Day asks: Can books survive, and if so, how?

Engineers in the City Apr 11, 2014

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Peter Day looks at some of the big challenges facing cities around the world through the eyes of the people who tackle these problems for a living: engineers.

In Stradivari's footsteps Apr 05, 2014

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Cremona in northern Italy is the home of the Stradivarius violin and 280 years after the death of the venerated violin maker, Antonio Stradivari , the long tradition continues today. In some 150 workshops around the city dedicated craftspeople make several thousand violins a year and they sell at high prices. Peter Day asks what the role is today of this kind of handwork in the age of mass production.

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