Money Programme
The latest stories from the world of business and work
Money Programme - 01/06/2007
Millions of us are "live" in virtual reality computer worlds - and there is a fortune to be made there. Max Flint sets up shop in the cyber world.
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Money Programme - 02/11/2007
Series featuring stories from the world of business and work. Presenter Libby Potter investigates the recent boom in British inventing.
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Money Programme - 05/03/2008
Part two of an air travel special. Heathrow and owner BAA have faced strike threats, security alerts and endless delays. Libby Potter investigates.
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Money Programme - 08/06/2007
In 2004 the AA was taken over by a private equity company. The Money Programme's Max Flint asks is it asset stripping or the best way to re-vitalise a famous old company?
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Money Programme - 12/10/2007
With rising interest rates and confidence in the mortgage business shaken by the Northern Rock crisis, Libby Potter investigates whether the buy-to-let boom is over.
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Money Programme - 18/05/2007
Max Flint investigates how the smoking ban, to be introduced on 1st July, will affect the bingo industry in England.
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Money Programme - 25/05/2007
As Cadbury launches its first chewing gum in Britain, Libby Potter goes behind the lines to investigate the strategy, the tactics and the fall-out in the gum war.
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Money Programme - 28/06/2007
In this Money Programme special, Fiona Bruce, Max Flint and Libby Potter investigate the truth behind the big High Street retailers' promises to go green.
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Money Programme - Airfix: Britain's Next Top Model?
Business series. After going bankrupt, Airfix is being relaunched by toy giant Hornby. But will today's children care after a lifetime of playstations and obesity-snack decadence?
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Money Programme - Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World
The Money Programme's Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from Microsoft and embark on his latest challenge.
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Money Programme - BP: $30 Billion Blowout
The Money Programme team presents an inside account of the BP oil spill. Features a host of interviews with key industry insiders, including Bob Dudley, the new Head of BP.
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Money Programme - Britain's Favourite Fakes
There are more counterfeit products on sale in the UK today than ever before. Max Flint studies a survey about fakes. Do people believe that it is wrong to buy a pirated DVD?
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Money Programme - Cash and Curry
Britain's curry industry is worth over three billion pounds annually. In this Money Programme, Saira Khan meets those making money from curry and looks at the Indian food's future.
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Money Programme - Dirty Little Secrets
Stories from the world of business and work. Many companies now employ private detectives to find out what their competitors are up to. Max Flint investigates.
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Money Programme - E-Mail is Ruining My Life
Libby Potter investigates whether e-mail helps or hinders workplace performance, and shows how to control e-mail rather than letting it control us.
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Money Programme - Facehooked
Social networking site 'Facebook' now has 50 million international members. The kids have loved it for years, but British newspapers have only just recognised its impact.
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Money Programme - Fast Bucks: How Porsche Made Billions
The Money Programme's Max Flint travels to Germany to investigate allegations that luxury sports car manufacturer Porsche was behind an audacious takeover bid for rival Volkswagen.
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Money Programme - Festival Fever!
Join the Money Programme's Max Flint and special guest presenter Myleene Klass as they investigate why music and arts festivals have become such big business.
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Money Programme - Gold Fever!
Financial affairs. While other sectors of the economy are in turmoil, the price of gold has quadrupled in the last ten years. The Money Programme's Max Flint investigates.
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Money Programme - How Green is Your High Street?
In this Money Programme special, Fiona Bruce, Max Flint and Libby Potter investigate the truth behind the big High Street retailers' promises to go green.
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Money Programme - James Caan's Jobs
James Caan takes a trip out of the Dragons' Den to look at the job market as unemployment figures in the UK reach their worst levels in decades.
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Money Programme - Last Orders: Calling Time on Pubs?
Up and down the UK up to five pubs are closing every day. The Money Programme's Max Flint goes on a pub crawl across Britain to investigate the demise of the British boozer.
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Money Programme - Last Orders for Guinness?
Sales of Guinness are falling in the UK and Ireland. With British palates accustomed to lager and alcopops, Guinness are launching a lighter 'Guinness Red'.
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Money Programme - Media Revolution: Stop Press?
Series from The Money Programme investigating the media revolution. Janet Street-Porter finds out how papers are coping with radical changes to the industry.
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Money Programme - Media Revolution: Title Fight
Series investigating the media revolution. Libby Potter investigates how technology, market forces and trends have changed the way books are written, published and sold.
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Money Programme - Media Revolution: Tomorrow's TV
The final episode of Media Revolution, a three-part series from the Money Programme, looks at the transformation of the UK TV industry.
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Money Programme - Mum's the Business
Series featuring stories from the world of business and work. Saira Khan meets the 'mumpreneurs' - women who combine running their own business with raising a young family.
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Money Programme - Once More with Ealing
Libby Potter follows the attempts of Ealing Studios to become once again one of the most famous names in British cinema, with a remake of classic St Trinian's.
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Money Programme - Plane Crazy: The Transatlantic Price War
The transatlantic air travel market will be deregulated in March, which could spark a price war. The first of a two-part air travel special.
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Money Programme - Price Comparison Sites: Deal or No Deal?
Millions of us rely on price comparison sites to find the right deal. But how reliable are they? The Money Programme's Rachel Horne investigates.
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Money Programme - Run on the Bank: Northern Crock
Business series. In the first of a two-parter about high street banks, Libby Potter investigates the first run on a British bank for over a century: Northern Rock.
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Money Programme - Run on the Bank: Penalty Pain
Libby Potter examines bank penalty charges. Banks repaid claimants 400 million pounds in the first six months of 2007 alone.
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Money Programme - Superstar, Super-Rich
Britain has more rich people than ever before, as globalisation means that successful people are receiving global-scale pay packets. Max Flint meets them.
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Money Programme - The Fall of BP's Sun King
A Money Programme special in which Rene Carayol investigates the real cause of corporate leader Lord Browne's resignation.
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Money Programme - The Great British Shares Swindle
Business documentary series. The Money Programme's Max Flint investigates the growing phenomenon of Boiler Room selling: a scam where investors are sold illegitimate shares.
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Money Programme - The Great Green Fuel Gamble?
Biofuels are being touted by governments, oil companies and car manufacturers as a green solution to our fuel problems: but are they?
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Money Programme - The Great Phone Swindle
Business series. Fed up with phone calls trying to get you to switch your gas, electricity or phone companies? It's not just a nuisance; it could be a con.
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Money Programme - The Money Programme
Business series. Fed up with phone calls trying to get you to switch your gas, electricity or phone companies? It's not just a nuisance; it could be a con.
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Money Programme - The Money Programme
To mark the 40th anniversary of devaluation, the Money Programme reports news from the sick bed of the pound, the day before devaluation, 17 November 1967.
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Money Programme - The Profits Of Gloom
Business documentary series. As many businesses brace themselves against a possible recession, Max Flint meets the people who are profiting from the slump.
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Money Programme - The Real Sir Alan
In a Money Programme special, Fiona Bruce tells the story of the boy who started out selling beetroot and went on to build a fortune from electronics, before becoming a TV star.
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Money Programme - The Rise of the Superchef
Delia, Jamie, Gordon, Nigella, Rick, Gary and Antony - their names and faces are everywhere. This is the story of how they turned their cooking into multi-million-pound businesses.
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Money Programme - The Speculators
The Money Programme's Max Flint travels to the US Virgin Islands to hear the arguments of a leading critic of commodity speculation.
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Money Programme - Too Young to Retire
New stories from the world of business and work. Former Money Programme presenter Valerie Singleton meets the people who are building businesses in their sixties and seventies.
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Money Programme - Total Recall: The Toyota Story
Special edition of the Money Programme investigating Toyota's recall of millions of cars. Filmed in Japan, the US and the UK as the crisis unfolded.
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Money Programme - Where's My Mortgage Gone?
Max Flint returns for a new series of the Money Programme with an investigation into the biggest shake up in the mortgage market in living memory.
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Money Programme - Who's Buying up Britain?
Max Flint investigates iconic British companies and institutions which have become investment targets for a new type of investor - the Sovereign Wealth Fund.
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