Podcasts presented by Simon Rose

On this week's Serious Money, we talked 'pocket money' and whether parents are spoiling their children or providing them more scope to learn about money. We discussed why space is becoming the final frontier for investors, and looked at Merryn Somerset Webb's article about her love affair with Japanese stocks.

On our latest Magazine Review, we looked at some of the stories dominating the pages of the country's leading business magazines and discussed what lies ahead, including George Osborne's appointment as Editor of the London Evening Standard, the possibility of another Scottish independence referendum and Hammond's U-turn over rising national insurance for self-employed.

The Business of Film with film critic James Cameron Wilson, looking at the biggest winners and losers at the box office this week, including Kong: Skull Island, Logan and The Lego Batman Movie.

It's time to talk politics: Today: the Dutch have crushed the hopes of Europe's next top populist; Trump's unveiled his first budget as his revised travel ban gets into trouble; and the Conservatives have been fined a record £70,000 for campaign spending failures.

On the latest Market Wrap, mining company Anglo American's shares jumped almost 9% after Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal said he would buy a 12% stake in the company. The Bank of England voted to keep interest rates unchanged at 0.25%, but one of the Monetary Policy Committee members expressed concerns over inflation. Finally, sales have fallen at Sainsbury's during the first nine weeks of the year, but the newly-acquired Argos reported a strong growth.

Our Apprentices are four members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. Today's Apprentices were Matt Cox and Olivia Demetriades, and they were joined by Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher.

This week on "The Investment Trust Show", brought to you in association with Henderson Global Investors, we looked at investing in UK small caps. Share Radio's Simon Rose was joined in studio by Harry Nimmo, Manager of the Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust and Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher.

On today's edition, Simon and Lord Lee are joined by Louis Hall, CEO of Cerillion.

It's time to talk politics. Today: Philip Hammond has dropped plans to hike national insurance; in the Netherlands, voters are heading to the polls; the chair of the Brexit Committee tells how he got on grilling the Government's Brexit minister today.

View From... Middlesex University looking at what's behind the Fed rate rise, whether the UK and US are failing to confront the long term drives of explosive debt, discussing if Europe is on the knife edge of uncertainty and does America needs a liberal party? Tim Evans, Professor of Business and Political Economy at Middlesex University London discusses all this with Simon Rose.