Podcasts

Can doing up your garden add value to your house? Sarah talks about the growing popularity of gardening with Elspeth Briscoe, founder of My Garden School, Juliet Roberts, editor at Gardens Illustrated and Petra Hoyer Millar, the Oxonian Garden Blogger.

Around 1 in 5 parents will forego a meal this summer in order to pay for childcare, according to the Trussell Trust, a charity which runs foodbanks. And 40% of parents are worried about the extra costs of paying for childcare this summer holiday. Sarah talks to Mandy Garner of Working Mums and Anne Danks of the Trussell Trust.

This week, Sarah talks travel money. How do you get the best exchange rate? How do you avoid credit and debit card charges abroad? Do travellers' cheques still exist? What about prepaid currency cards? Sarah answers all these questions with this week's Young Money champion Rachael Healy, Andy Webb from the Money Advice Service and Bob Atkinson from TravelSupermarket.

Sue Dougan and Sainsbury's Magazine digital editor Lisa Harris are joined this week by Stephen Harris, who runs The Sportsman pub in Seasalter in Kent, recently voted National Restaurant of the Year, Emma Killilea, founder of gluten-free oats producer Delicious Alchemy, cook and food writer Celia Brooks. They also taste eclairs brought in by Jeremie Vaislic, CEO of new patisserie Maitre Choux.

The Entrepreneur Show takes a look at interesting businesses and talks to the people behind them. Whether you already run your own business or are thinking about taking the plunge, we'll bring you everything you need to guide your business from concept to success.

The Entrepreneur Show takes a look at interesting businesses and talks to the people behind them. Whether you already run your own business or are thinking about taking the plunge, we'll bring you everything you need to guide your business from concept to success.

Time again for This is Money, Financial Broadcaster of the Year Georgie Frost and Financial Website of the Year This is Money team up with NS&I to close off a turbulent week, with the best of financial advice and analysis. Yes, it has been a turbulent week, with Natwest veering towards negative rates, Santander rolling back the UK's most popular current account, and Lloyds scrapping more of their workforce. Can savers find their way through it all? Well, we'd better hope so, as the issue this week most pressing is the FCA's findings that over 5 million credit cards may never be paid off, and around 1.4 million people are barely making any repayments at all. In short, we're drowning in plastic. But the first step is educating ourselves, and this podcast is the place to start! This is Money is presented by Georgie Frost, in partnership with NS&I.

The number of house loans approved by the British Banker’s Association fell more than expected last month. So with more official mortgage approvals data due out, what can we expect and how's it affecting the mortgage market? Ray Boulger, mortgage expert from the independent mortgage specialists John Charcol, explained.

Time once again for the Consuming Issues news review, with Georgie Frost and is joined by Martyn James, an independent money expert. And today, they look at the days top story - the decision by EDF to go ahead with the £18bn Hinkley Point project in Somerset, in what would have been the UK's first new nuclear power station for a generation, although it received mixed reviews from Parliament. Elsewhere, Ofgem has launched an investigation into SSE, while consumer confidence is continuing to dip. Plus, more bad news for Southern Rail, as The RMT union says the workers will walk out on the 8th August. All this and more, on Consuming Issues, every day from 9am to Midday, right here on Share Radio.

IBM has created a new app to determine whether or not a company's systems have been compromised by cybercriminals. But industry experts say the real threat to companies' cybersecurity is simply worker negligence. Colin Tankard, Managing Director of data security providers Digital Pathways, explained the biggest worries for companies.