Podcasts

7 out of 10 drivers are set to be hit by new hikes in road tax coming into effect in April. The changes are aimed at encouraging drivers to switch to zero emission cars. Our reporter Tom Hill spoke to Development Manager at the Institute of the Motor Industry, Tom Denton, to get an explanation of what the changes would mean for Britain's motorists.

Now it's time for a brand new episode of Track Record. This week Sue Dougan sits down with Samantha Dyer - founder of Mumma Love Organics, an award-winning business providing specially formulated organic products for babies.

Juliette was joined in the studio by João Pedro Montes, CEO of Wine with Spirit. Wine is big business with a market worth over $300 billion, but it seems that those who sell the stuff don't understand the data around consumers. João and the team at Wine with Spirit and contradicting that.

Today Juliette Foster was joined by Web Editor Kevin Pratt from MoneySupermarket. On the agenda, they discussed workplace dress codes being more discriminating against women. Plus they look into nation debt ballooning to £1.7trillion. All these stories and more on The News Review.

Juliette was joined on the line by Billy Bambrough, Editor of economics and business website Verdict.co.uk and they began with, of course, the Supreme Court ruling.

What are the main market headlines of the morning? Here with me is Share Radio's Nigel Cassidy to re-cap what happened this morning, including The Restaurant Group and WH Smiths.

WH Smith shares were up on a good trading update with sales of funny 'spoof books' helping the stationer. Shares in Restaurant Group, the company behind chains Frankie and Benny's and Garfunkel's, were down as it reported lower like-for-like sales last year. Tesco faces new lawsuit from US Investment firm, Manning & Napier, which is suing the supermarket over an earlier accounting irregularities. And miners BHP Billiton and Antofagasta reported on good results today. Chris Bailey, founder of Financial Orbit, joined Ed Bowsher, Share Radio's senior analyst to discuss these and more.

Britain's manufacturers are 'firing on all cylinders' - that's what the Confederation of British Industry says in its latest report - but will it last? Three of the five biggest shareholders in FTSE 350 firms have vowed to get tough on executive pay. And in the US, Donald Trump has approved two oil pipelines, is the Trump bump back? Ben Kumar from 7 Investment Management analyses the latest economic news with Share Radio's Ed Bowsher.

Theresa May is currently in the unenviable position of simultaneously having to negotiate trade deals with Europe to the East, and the US to the West. And as with all British business leaders trying to build their US sales and presence, the Prime Minister must ensure she is in sync with the American businessman leading the country. Allyson Stewart-Allen is the Director at International Marketing Partners, and she joined Nigel Cassidy on Share Radio Breakfast to offer her views on the approach May should take.

The LIBOR scandal is perhaps the biggest financial conspiracy the world has ever seen. While political scandal Watergate has Woodward and Bernstein, LIBOR has Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch. Their new book is The Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded To Rig The World's Most Important Number. It's published here by John Wiley and Bloomberg Press. Simon was joined by Liam Vaughan.