In Business
Series of programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers
In Business - 01/02/2007
Food for Fuel: Peter Day meets the green entrepreneurs who are finding new ways to fuel the energy requirements of tomorrow.
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In Business - 20/05/2007
Peter Day talks to those who are searching for ways to reduce Australia's impact on the environment without losing out economically.
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In Business - 20/09/2007
Peter Day examines bubbles and bursts in the financial industry, their causes and why they always take the public by surprise.
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In Business - A New Capitalism
Peter Day talks to Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter about radical changes to the way corporations think about their relationships with society.
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In Business - Adventure Capitalist
Adventure Capitalist: Peter Day talks to Welsh-born Michael Moritz, one of the venture capital stars of Silicon Valley USA.
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In Business - After The Crunch
What comes after the crunch? Double dip or W-shaped recovery? Or something much more uncertain? Peter Day reports from the front line of industry.
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In Business - All at Sea
Peter Day takes the helm of a ship to find out what is happening in the maritime world. It is a while since the UK ruled the waves, but could the new frontier lie under the water?
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In Business - All Join In
All Join In: Social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo and YouTube are revolutionising the way people use the internet. Peter Day asks how businesses need to respond.
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In Business - All New
Peter Day hears from the business people who, faced with the uncertainties of the global recession, are pinning their hopes for economic recovery on bold new innovation.
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In Business - All that Jazz
John Kao, one of the world's leading experts on corporate change, shows Peter Day how jazz improvision can help companies learn how to innovate.
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In Business - Are CEOs up to the job?
In the wake of the very personal attacks on BP boss Tony Hayward, Peter Day asks if chief executives are really up to the job in our top companies.
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In Business - Asia Bling
New places are leaping to prominence in the world of luxury. Peter Day hears from some of the leading figures behind the hunger for luxury goods in Asia.
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In Business - Back on the Map
Back on the Map: Kazakhstan, a big but sparsely populated country with vast oil and mineral reserves, is trying to make a name for itself. Peter Day reports.
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In Business - Back on the Road
The US auto industry has just emerged from the biggest slump in its history. Ford chief executive Alan Mulally tells Peter Day how he has changed the way the company works.
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In Business - Battery Power
Peter Day asks if Bolivia really could become what experts are calling 'the Saudi Arabia of lithium', as demand for the metal grows for the building of plug-in cars.
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In Business - Beyond the Boom
Beyond the Boom: The British economy has been growing for a record-breaking 15 years. Peter Day asks how much longer the expansion can go on.
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In Business - Big Spenders
Big Spenders: Russia' s new prosperity, fuelled by the oil and gas industries, is creating a nation of middle-class consumers for the first time. Peter Day reports.
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In Business - Biotech Battle
Britain's world-class pharmaceutical industry fears that it is failing to keep pace with biotechnology, the latest development in medicines. Peter Day reports.
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In Business - Bitter Pills
Britain's pharmaceutical giants have invested millions in a search for new drugs and treatments which has not delivered the breakthroughs that were promised. Is there a better way?
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In Business - Brand Wagon
Companies are obsessed with creating and nurturing their brands, but what is the business of branding all about? Peter Day visits a museum of brands that failed.
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In Business - Bring on the Bandwidth
An ever-expanding internet needs more and more bandwidth to provide the services that users are demanding. But can the system cope? Peter Day asks the experts.
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In Business - Car Crash
Car Crash: Peter Day looks at the history of and the troubles with the modern car industry. He talks to industry experts along with the Chairman of Toyota.
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In Business - Casino Capitalism
What can financiers learn about risk management from gambling and the casinos who do it every day of the week? Peter Day asks the experts.
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In Business - Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web: Bold companies are launching new technology over the Internet, delivering computer services on demand. Peter Day investigates the trend.
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In Business - Changing Places
In Toronto, Peter Day finds out from author and urban studies expert Prof Richard Florida why, in an interconnected world, it still matters where we live and work.
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In Business - China Dispossessed
China's vast national urbanisation plan to take its people out of poverty leaves behind many who are dispossessed of land and homes. Peter Day reports.
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In Business - Chips Off The Old Block
At one time, British computing led the world. In a mobile world, some people think it might be happening again. Peter Day reports on the past, present and future of UK computing.
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In Business - Coming Soon
What happens next as the Credit Crunch crisis continues? Peter Day gets the long view from a clutch of distinguished economists.
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In Business - Computers Chipped
Computers Chipped: For 40 years, computer chips have doubled in speed and power every two years. But maintaining the pace is becoming more difficult. Peter Day investigates.
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In Business - Cracked China
Peter Day reports from China's heartland manufacturing cities on the global strains in the world's most vibrant economy, as hundreds of factories close and workers are laid off.
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In Business - Craig Barrett interview
Peter Day talks to the outgoing chairman of Intel, Craig Barrett, about receiving the largest fine ever imposed by the EU and the challenges of running a cutting edge company.
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In Business - Doing It Wrong
Before he died at the age of 90, business school professor Russell Ackoff gave Peter Day some insights into his unconventional approach to getting things done.
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In Business - Down Japan
Peter Day asks what the rest of the world can learn from Japan's experience of economic depression since the bursting of its property bubble in 1990.
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In Business - Down on the Farm
What has been the effect of rocketing food prices on British farmers? Peter Day reports.
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In Business - Eureka Democracy
Eureka Democracy: Peter Day asks whether business innovation is best left to companies. Some believe that the best ideas stem from the users of goods and services.
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In Business - Euro on the Rocks?
Europe is reeling from the troubles of dealing with one crisis after another. Is the Euro on the rocks? Peter Day asks the experts what is happening and why it matters.
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In Business - Europe on the Edge
Peter Day reports from Spain, Hungary, Ireland and Iceland on the strains being felt by countries on the fringes of Europe which had boomed when they were new recruits to the EU.
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In Business - Fighting Fit
Fighting Fit: Being healthy and staying healthy are increasing preoccupations for companies as well as individuals. Peter Day investigates.
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In Business - Fighting Fit
Fighting Fit: Being healthy and staying healthy are increasing preoccupations for companies as well as individuals. Peter Day investigates.
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In Business - Forty Per Cent Female
This year in Norway it became law that company boards must consist of at least forty percent women. Peter Day wonders if other countries may follow suit.
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In Business - Free For All
Peter Day hears from two advocates of business models that challenge the conventional wisdom about charging for goods and services.
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In Business - Generation Next
Generation Next: Peter Day investigates the new generation of consumers and how they are influencing businesses across the world.
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In Business - Generation Next
Generation Next: Teenagers are now big spenders, and corporations are waking up to a huge new market. Peter Day finds out how teenage tastes are shaping businesses across the world.
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In Business - Grand Design
Peter Day argues that it is high time that designers are given a far larger role in all sorts of organisations.
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In Business - Growing Pains
In the middle of a recession economic, growth is always considered the great panacea. But Peter Day wonders whether this is really the way to tackle the problems of a finite world.
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In Business - Hands On
Hands On: Neglected skills may be undermining how companies perform. Peter Day investigates what businesses can learn from people who have learnt their craft the hard way.
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In Business - Happy Go Lucky
Peter Day asks whether companies ought to pay more attention to how happy their employees are.
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In Business - Hard to Credit
Smaller businesses are still struggling to cope with the impact of the credit crunch as banks stay tough on their customers and trade insurance is hard to get. Peter Day reports.
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In Business - Hell for Leather
Peter Day joins John Timpson, head of Timpsons shoe repair firm, as he pursues his policy of 'upside-down management' by dropping in on some of their 550 outlets.
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In Business - Hello, Sunshine!
Hello, Sunshine! Germany has taken the lead in sustainable energy with the world's biggest solar power station. Peter Day looks for the secret of German success.
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In Business - Hidden Depths
In California, Peter Day meets Graham Hawkes, the London-born creator of a submersible vessel that flies through the ocean like a plane.
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In Business - Hot Stuff
Some people think that global warming offers a huge business opportunity for companies who can find new ways of tackling climate change. Peter Day investigates.
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In Business - How To Be Top
How To Be Top: Peter Day gets some unorthodox advice and guidance on how to inspire awe and become a corporate leader.
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In Business - How to Go Bust
Peter Day asks if there is a right or wrong way to tackle intractable business problems and seeks hints about surviving the current hard economic times.
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In Business - Iceland Feels the Chill
The credit crunch has caused big problems to countries round the world, but in Iceland it has been disastrous. Peter Day finds out what it is like when a whole country goes bust.
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In Business - In At The Start
Peter Day talks to Saeed Amidi, owner of a tiny office space in Silicon Valley that has produced a stream of blockbuster companies in recent years, including Google and PayPal.
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In Business - India's Supermarket Sweep
Peter Day investigates attempts by western-style supermarkets - both Indian and foreign - to gain a foothold in India's retail sector in the face of organised and vocal opposition.
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In Business - Lean, Mean and at Your Service
Lean, Mean and at Your Service: Global manufacturers have saved billions with lean production methods, but service industries seem to be far behind. Peter Day investigates.
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In Business - Learning Curve
Peter Day finds out how people can create learning organisations without the old command and control mechanisms that built the world's biggest companies.
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In Business - Let Me Entertain You
What can business leaders learn from rock musicians and improvisational comedians? Peter Day finds out.
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In Business - Let's Start a Bank
Peter Day finds out from the experts how to start a bank as well as how not to do it.
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In Business - Life Cycle
For a 200-year-old machine, the bicycle still has a lot of life in it. Peter Day slips on his cycle clips to find out where the bike industry is taking us.
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In Business - Location, Location
Mobile phones and other devices are helping all sorts of useful objects 'know' where they are. Peter Day talks to those building firms from this technology.
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In Business - Managing Eden
Managing Eden: Tim Smit, creator of the Eden Project in Cornwall, talks to Peter Day about his idiosyncratic style of management.
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In Business - Managing Eden
Managing Eden: Tim Smit, creator of the Eden Project in Cornwall, talks to Peter Day about his idiosyncratic style of management.
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In Business - Media Mayhem
Peter Day asks what the shape of the new media might be once the global recession and technology upheavals are over.
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In Business - Men in White I
Men in White I: Peter Day presents the first of two special reports on company laboratories. He visits Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre in California.
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In Business - Men in White II
Men in White II: Peter Day presents the second of two special reports on company laboratories. He visits the giant labs of General Electric in New York and Philips at Eindhoven.
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In Business - Monopoly Money
Monopoly Money: The European Union Competition Commission has become a global force in controlling how multinational companies behave. Commissioner Neelie Kroes talks to Peter Day.
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In Business - Mr Bottom Line
Peter Day talks to David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, His job is to keep global capitalism honest in a world of baffling facts and figures.
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In Business - Music Machine
Music Machine: Some record companies and film studios are starting to use computer programmes to predict the next big hits. Peter Day talks to both enthusiasts and sceptics.
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In Business - Music Machine
Music Machine: Some record companies and film studios are starting to use computer programmes to predict the next big hits. Peter Day talks to both enthusiasts and sceptics.
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In Business - Network News
What happens to leading-edge high technology companies when their customers are plunged into recession? Peter Day asks two business leaders from Britain and the US.
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In Business - New Age
Peter Day finds out whether the increasing number of older people is a threat to the way we live now or an opportunity for new kinds of business.
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In Business - No Strings
No Strings: Generous investors can sometimes help up-and-coming musicians. Peter Day hears how art and money can sometimes make beautiful music together.
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In Business - Not Just Silicon
For 50 years, Silicon Valley in California has been the place where new enterprise has thrived more effectively than anywhere else in the world. How is it coping with recession?
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In Business - Now That the Party's Over
As the dust begins to settle on the catastrophic business events of 2008, Peter Day looks at what has changed and finds out how to cope with the future.
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In Business - Now Wash Your Hands Please
Peter Day hears how some simple ideas about health could change the fortunes of poor people around the world.
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In Business - On the Rack
Many of the clothes bearing some of the best-known labels in the high street are made by exploited workers in developing countries, according to campaigners. Peter Day investigates.
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In Business - Operation Robot
The revolution in the operating theatre is only just beginning, but robotic surgery could change the way we think about healthcare. Peter Day hears from British robot pioneers.
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In Business - Organising Salvation
Peter Day explores the effectiveness of the Salvation Army in Britain and finds out how it is bringing innovation to salvation.
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In Business - Over the Moon
Over the Moon: Trips into space are attracting a new generation of private entrepreneurs who insist that commercial space travel can be economically viable. Peter Day investigates.
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In Business - Power Drive
Peter Day investigates those companies who are seeking to revolutionise the global automobile industry with electric cars.
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In Business - Power Play
Huge sums are being put into designing a new Intelligent Grid and the smart meters that will feed data into the system. Peter Day looks at how our power supply is evolving.
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In Business - Press Under Pressure
Many of the world's best-known business newspapers are struggling to survive the recession and the rise of rival media. Peter Day finds out why their survival matters.
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In Business - Private Grief
The influence of private equity firms' is increasing. But with their growing power comes increasing concerns. Do private equity firms really create value for the British economy?
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In Business - Project Alcatraz
Peter Day hears how the theft of a security guard's gun led a Venezuelan businessman to set up a project which has cut crime in his area by 40 per cent.
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In Business - Rail Revolution
Rail Revolution: Peter Day reports on the current railway revival and how it is changing the map of Europe.
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In Business - Ready to Wear
Many of our clothes are made by low-paid workers in low-cost countries. From Bangladesh, Peter Day finds out what happens when westerners intervene.
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In Business - Research Party
Research Party: Billions of federal dollars are spent on financing research projects by American corporations. Peter Day asks whether Britain should be following the same policy.
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In Business - Research Party
Research Party: Billions of federal dollars are spent on financing research projects by American corporations. Peter Day asks whether Britain should be following the same policy.
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In Business - Rwanda Rising
After a tragic recent history, Rwanda is trying to recreate itself, as Peter Day reports.
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In Business - Small Wonder
With commercial financial institutions now jumping on the microlending bandwagon, Peter Day wonders whether a microloan bubble is about to burst.
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In Business - Small World
Outsourcing used to be something only big companies did to save money. Now small firms are learning how they can become global organisations from day one. Peter day finds out why.
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In Business - Sociability
When the new breed of social entrepreneurs meet the new networks of interactive social media, the impact is felt round the globe. Peter Day reports on this meeting of minds.
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In Business - Squeaky Clean
WD40 is one of those rare products that users deeply identify with. In San Diego, Peter Day investigates the company's secret formula.
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In Business - Student Start-Ups
Peter Day finds out about the university societies which unite would-be entrepreneurs with potential backers and mentors.
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In Business - Sugaring the Pill
As world leaders debate climate change in Copenhagen, can ethanol champions Brazil convince the rest of the globe that sugar really is good for you?
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In Business - Survivors
Survivors: British manufacturers may be staring recession in the face. Peter Day hears how manufacturing companies plan to continue to survive against the odds.
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In Business - Team Spirit
Team Spirit: In an era when business is increasingly conducted globally and in cyberspace, Peter Day asks what it takes to build and manage effective teams.
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In Business - The Credit Crunch
With the global financial system in crisis, Peter Day asks a panel of experts what might and should happen next and how the global economy can recover from its current plight.
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In Business - The Long March
The Long March: China has built an economic machine designed to help millions of country people out of poverty. Peter Day meets villagers who are still waiting to see the benefits.
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In Business - The Remarkable Mr China
Peter Day talks to Irish businessman Liam Casey about how China works and how its influence is rippling through companies and consumers all over the world.
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In Business - Ticking Over
Can the Isle of Man create a revival in watch making? Peter Day finds out if we can really bring back a British tradition.
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In Business - Unlimited Company
In a world where banks and conventional companies have taken a battering in the recession, Peter Day hears from people who are trying to do things completely differently.
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In Business - Upending the Pyramid: Remembering CK Prahalad
In a change to the advertised programme, Peter Day looks back at the life and influence of the Indian born management guru Professor CK Prahalad who's just died.
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In Business - Walk to Wisdom
Twice a year, professor Anil Gupta leads a troop of followers on foot across villages in India in search of local knowledge and inventions. Peter Day joins them.
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In Business - Water Works
The geopolitics of oil has loomed over global affairs for 80 years, but now the attention of policy makers and investors is turning to an even more basic resource.
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In Business - What's in Store?
Peter Day looks at the history of retail in this country and what new idea about shopping are being designed to tempt the buying public.
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In Business - Whistling in the Dark
Peter Day finds out what happens when co-workers blow the whistle on what appear to be dirty dealings by companies and organisations, and whether they ought to be rewarded.
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In Business - Who Sets Our Standards?
Who Sets Our Standards? Peter Day asks the standards-setters what they do and why it matters.
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In Business - Women's Work
Some business leaders think that the credit crunch crisis marks a great opportunity for women. Peter Day asks whether female skills can help to guide the world out of the ruins.
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