Podcasts

In Share Politics, journalist and commentator Mike Indian joined Simon Rose to analyse the manifestos of Britain’s three main parties and examine Emmanuel Macron’s new cabinet.

Helal Miah, Investment Research Analyst at The Share Centre, looks back at results from Vodafone, Royal Mail and Burberry as well as looking at forthcoming results from three of Britain’s biggest retailers.

Simon and James discuss Alien: Covenant, the continuing success of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Jessica Chastain’s new film Miss Sloane with James highlighting the new Francois Ozon movie Franz too.

Editor Simon Lambert and deputy editor Adrian Lowry join Georgie Frost to go through the party manifestos ahead of June's general election, the latest figures out this week, giving us an idea of the state of Britain and the economy, bad news for buy-to-letters & the taxpayer's stake in Lloyds Banking Group has been fully sold off.

Steve and Simon discuss brain transplants, Amazon launching its live gigs service in the UK (Blondie and Alison Moyet) and Citymapper’s new London bus service amongst other things.

Editor Simon Lambert and Development Editor Rich Browning from This is Money join Georgie Frost to round up the week's top stories they've been covering on their award winning Website. This week, they lift the roof on the property market – just how worried should we be about it. In one area of the country you need 17 times the average salary to buy; the number of under 35-year-olds still living with their parents has gone up a third - we ask if microhomes the way to go?! And we take a look at plans to introduce an energy price cap from the Tories - how different is it really to Ed Miliband’s proposals in 2013?

Georgie Frost is joined by financial heavy weights Lindsay Cook and Andy Webb.

In the Business of Film, James Cameron-Wilson discusses the continued succss of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, as well as new films A Dog’s Purpose, Sleepless, Mindhorn and Unlocked.

James Cameron-Wilson reviews record-breaking Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as well as remarking on the first time the same film has appeared four times in the same box office chart - in four different languages!

Today on the agenda, Georgie Frost and Good Housekeeping's consumer editor Sara Benwell discussed how London has topped the tables as having the most expensive public transport in the world. Plus they look at how work has begun on 65 new trains set to boost capacity and reduce journey times on the East Coast Main Line. All these stories and more on The News Review.