Share Sounds presented by Juliette Foster

Anyone running a small or medium sized company is likely to face numerous challenges as they grow their business and raising money is one of the toughest. If the banks or even family members can't or won't lend the readies, then what are the alternatives? One possible option is to raise the finance through the Enterprise Investment Scheme...also known as EIS. Well one person with a first hand knowledge of EIS and how it works is Lord Howard Flight, the former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who now joins us in the studio.

The US President Barack Obama gave his reaction to the climate change deal brokered in Paris last December. Among the headline making initiatives was the promise to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius. Yet for some Green activists the deal was hardly a resounding success. Countries may be legally bound to have their emission reduction levels checked but there's flexibility on how they go about hitting their targets. And what about the economics of climate change? Did Paris make the link between excess human consumption and the impact on economies dependent on fossil fuels? Is it time to switch to a materialism that's environmentally friendly and economically kinder? We are joined in the studio by the author Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation and by Share Radio's regular economics commentator, Professor John Weeks.

Frontier markets fund manger George Birch-Reynardson joins Gavin & Juliette in studio for a look at the challenges and opportunities offered by India. They also discuss the consequences of the Zika virus. The next Emerging Opportunities show will be on Monday the 22nd of February.

Helal Miah, Investment Research Analyst at the Share Centre, joins Juliette to wrap up all the finance news we've been through this week,.

Claer Barett, Editor of FT money, joins us once again to wrap up the week with her favourite stories.

Gavin Serkin, Emerging Markets Editor-at-Large at Bloomberg News and author of Frontier: Exploring the Top 10 Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, discusses emerging markets on Share Radio

The Investment Trust Show with James De Sausmarez, Director and Head of Investment Trusts at Henderson Global Investors; Julian Marr, Editorial director at Adviser-Hub & Events-Hub & Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher

People are still wrapping their heads around the implications of the recent Fed decision not to alter interest rates. Well, we are joined by Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management, to set us all straight.

It is predicted that a million people could arrive in the Germany this year seeking refugee status. Human rights groups have applauded Germany's willingness to give shelter to people escaping conflict in their own countries, and it has been suggested the presence of so many people could be vital to the long term growth of the German economy. Alexi Philips reports.

Are the Euro's problems an example of a badly designed financial concept, or is it just a convenient political scapegoat? Those are just some of the questions explored in Martin Sandbu's fascinating new book Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt. Martin joins us in the studio to take us through it,