Podcasts

On Monday, we take a step towards normality – you can get your hair cut, have a beer outside at the pub and visit a clothes shop. But what about the future of the office? Will we ever go back full-time, or is a hybrid model more likely – and if you're tempted by a shed office, what should you look out for? On this week's podcast, Lee Boyce and Georgie Frost discuss the future of work and the pros and cons of WFH life, including the 'shoffice.' Elsewhere, should you claim home working tax relief and how much could you get for doing so? And what can you do if you want to change career, whether that is a huge leap or a 'bridging' one. Plus, are workers heading for a horrible shock when it comes to retirement and what can be done to navigate it?

Want to keep up with the latest earnings updates from the States? Well join Chris Hill and the Motley Fool Radio Show team here on Share Radio, direct from Washington DC, for news, views and analysis of the US stocks that matter. In this week's show: The stock market hits a new high; JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expresses bullishness about the economic recovery and concern about the future; Constellation Brands serves up strong growth; Amazon gains ground in digital advertising and announces plans to open its first grocery stores on the East Coast; Okta shares soar on optimism from the company’s investor day; FuboTV shares rise after the securing exclusive rights to World Cup ’22 qualifying matches; Twitter explores an acquisition of audio-based social network Clubhouse; And AppHarvest makes a big buy in artificial intelligence. Motley Fool analysts Emily Flippen and Jason Moser discuss those stories and share two stocks on their radar, Sprout Social and Ciena. Plus, award-winning director Robin Hauser talks about $avvy, a new documentary about women taking control of their financial futures.

Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the longest-serving consort in British history. He discusses whether Covid might end up boosting the UK economy rather than harming it. He wonders why Scotland's ruling politicians are so unsympathetic towards business. And he looks at a new book that says that Western historians of the Second World War have always underestimated the importance of the Russian role in defeating the Nazis.

Tim Price of Private Value Partners explains why he thinks technical analysis - particularly trend-following - may be a more useful discipline than fundamental analysis. He recounts the anecdote of the true-life counterparts of the film Trading Places, with so-called novice investors, called "turtles", taught an investment system, with many of them becoming hugely successful. He points out the downside of index investing and believes that the early warning of problems with the world's burgeoning debts may first be seen in the foreign exchange markets, which central banks are not big enough to control.

James Cameron-Wilson marvels at the encouraging box office news from the United States where Godzilla vs. Kong is top of the heap, despite streaming on TVs simultaneously. He reviews the movie, which features some big names as well as the giant titular stars. In the UK, it's only available online. James also reviews the Doug Liman sci-fi movie Chaos Walking, with Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley and the new Netflix film Run, starring Sarah Paulson.

Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses LG pulling out of smartphones, why lab-grown meat needs spinach as scaffolding, a sunlight-catching ball to enlighten basements, an Icelandic innovation for making online meetings more like the real thing, why bees are sniffing out Balkan landmines, a smart knee brace and how Japanese scientists have proven just how annoying texting pedestrians can be.

Adam creates a hypnosis session designed to help specifically with the chronic condition of Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a condition that many researchers have linked to a traumatic event and this hypnotherapy session is designed to rewire the neuropathways so that the body isn't still responding to the original traumatic events. This uses a technique that has proven effective with phobias and PTSD.

Adam Cox interviews Andrew Kap, author of “The Last Book on the Law of Attraction You'll Ever Need to Read”. Andrew talks about the major misconceptions people have with the law of attraction and offers practical tips to immediately attract more of what you want in life.

In this episode, hosts Matt Dickson and Franz Buscha are joined by Sonia Bhalotra, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. Sonia has a prodigious volume of research on topics relating to the creation of human capital, early child development, gender inequality, intergenerational mobility, and the impact of early life health on later life outcomes. Sonia discusses her research on the impact of the advent of antibiotics in the US in the 1930s on child pneumonia, and how this had long-lasting impacts on children’s education and labour market outcomes. She explains how improvements in child health and mortality have implications not just for the children themselves, but also for women’s fertility decisions and labour supply. The discussion then turns to the trade-off between the “quality” and the quantity of children that a family have – including the surprising news that having twins is not as random as we might have assumed. Finally, they touch on Sonia’s research into the long-term benefits of treating maternal depression, which highlights how a non-drug therapy can have profound and long-lasting impact on maternal health and wellbeing.

Saving, spending, planning — you've got money questions and we've got answers. Every week host Alison Southwick and personal finance expert Robert Brokamp challenge the conventional wisdom on life's biggest financial issues to reveal what you really need to know to make smart money moves. In this week's show, Bill Mann joins the show to explain the nuts and bolts of SPACs as we take Euphonium Industries public.