Podcasts

Ian Forrest, Investment Research Analyst at the Share Centre, reviews this week's stock market activity with Share Radio's Simon Rose. They take a look at Kingfisher, Next, Vodafone, Wolseley, Saga, and TUI.

Join Share Radio's Alex Clark and Chris Bishop of Forbes for their Conversations from Africa. Today: calls for poultry protectionism has heated up a war over chickens; and South African competition regulators have set their sights on a fresh produce cartel.

On today's Business of Sport, Michael Considine looked at eSports with Dominic Sacco from the British eSport Association, after a report came out this week which shows that the economy will generate £1bln by 2020. Plus, Michael was joined by Tom Roddy from News Week to discuss whether China is using football to increase its interest around the world. Finally, Alex Clark had Extra Time.

The Business of Film with film critic, James Cameron Wilson looking at the biggest winners and losers at the box office this week, including Disney's Beauty and Beast live action name of the 1991 animated feature.

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 Wednesday's terrorist attack, the death of Martin McGuinness and the future business prospects for Amazon, will it meet the expectations of investors?. Share Radio's Steve Clarke was joined by Gavin Lumsden, Editor at Citywire Money, and Sam Bowman Executive Director of The Adam Smith Institute.

Welcome to the This is Money Show on Share Radio, brought to you in partnership with NS&I. Retirement just got more complicated this week with proposals put forward to raise the state pension age to 70 whilst further question marks hang over the triple lock. Pensions seem to be the subject of wider controversy though as we hear nearly a fifth of women are retiring without any personal or company pension. Saving up anything for retirement also got more challenging this week though with the latest inflation statistics. A temporary peak or will the Bank of England finally move on interest rates? Answering all this and more Georgie Frost is joined by Editor Simon Lambert and Consumer Affairs Editor Lee Boyce. Also this week we find out how banks and cheques are getting a 21st Century upgrade.

Following Wednesday's attack, the Metropolitan Police's most senior anti-terror officer Mark Rowley has confirmed that nine suspects are currently in custody. Plus, with only few days left before Article 50 is triggered, what do we know about the EU approach to the upcoming negotiations? Share Radio's Ed Bowsher was joined by Asa Bennett, Assistant Comment Editor at The Telegraph, for all the latest political news.

Shareholders in housebuilder Crest Nicholson voted against changes to a pay package for senior executives - do laws need to be changed to give investors more power? And as Donald Trump tries to push through his healthcare bill, why are recent market gains at risk? And have US markets got ahead of themselves? Garry White, chief investment commentator at Charles Stanley Direct, joined Share Radio's Ed Bowsher to talk through these and more of the day's biggest economic news.

Co-op Bank says several ‘credible’ buyers have come forward since it was put up for sale in February - but who might want it now TSB owner Banco Sabadell has bowed out? Plus FTSE 100 engineering conglomerate Smiths Industries sees revenue up 18% - for all the day's key company news, Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, joined Share Radio's Ed Bowsher.

Global Economist Jeremy Batstone-Carr gave an in-depth explanation of inflation to Nigel Cassidy on Share Radio Breakfast. Is it what the media and even Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, make it out to be?