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Share Radio's senior analyst Ed Bowsher, joins Georgie Frost in the studio to discuss the biggest finance stories of the last 24 hours. On the agenda today, consumer confidence has seen its sharpest drop in more than 20 years following Brexit, Brexit has pushed energy prices to a nine-month high, Coventry Building Society is launching the cheapest fixed rate mortgage such deal on record, and much more. Consuming Issues goes out every week day from 9 to 12 on Share Radio.

Our look into the world of all things travel-related. From how to save money on your daily commute, to how to get the best value on your holiday, to what you need to know about doing business abroad.

When you are just starting out in business, flexible co-working spaces can be the best environment to keep costs down and to help businesses to flourish. Fewer desks is one way to cut overheads - or for some of them to become hot desks - to be shared in different parts of the day buy different staff working opposite ends of the day. But that means increasingly many workers have no official home - which can be disconcerting.

This is a brand new edition of the Investment Trust Show hosted by Ed Mitchell of Investment Perspectives featuring the City of London Trust’s Chairman, Phillip Remnant & it’s fund manager, Job Curtis. In this week’s edition we focus on the long term performance of trusts over turbulent economic and market history – particularly on the City of London Investment Trust which celebrates 50 years of unbroken dividend payment growth.

Tony Blair ran his government such that the likely consequences of military action in Iraq were not considered properly, Sir John Chilcot announced as part of his inquiry. John McTernan, Tony Blair’s former Director of Political Operations, discussed the report with Nigel Cassidy and Louise Cooper, looking back on the decisions that had to be taken at the time.

The long-awaited Chilcot Report, into the UK's role in the Iraq war, was released on Wednesday, nearly seven years after it was announced. Initial analysis of the report has been mostly positive, and Gerry Simpson, Chair in Public International Law at the London School of Economics, gave his take on the findings.

Vix Leyton from cashback site Quidco.com, joins Georgie Frost in the studio to discuss the biggest finance stories of the last 24 hours. On the agenda today, Sterling fell to a 31-year low against the US dollar, Amazon is going on a hiring spree, M&S is dropping in sales, Sports Direct has warned it will be "impacted significantly" by the collapse in sterling, 55 per cent of people in the UK now use a mobile phone to do their banking, and much more. Consuming Issues goes out every week day from 9 to 12 on Share Radio.

This is must listen, new look edition to our regular show, with added features, bringing their magazine to your ears. On this week's episode, Helen Knapmann and Tom Wilson join Georgie Frost in the studio. On the agenda, are loyalty cards a waste of time, we look at pyramid schemes, multi-level marketing, no-interest credit cards, Y2K software protection, a warning as ID theft among young people has gone up almost 60% and the experts think the likes of Facebook and Twitter have a part to play. We also see the new, fun and quirky features like stats of the week, and their regular polls from the magazine.

This is Share Radio's regular Wednesday afternoon slot dedicated to investing in small cap companies, today featuring Lord Lee of Trafford

This is Crowdfunders with Share Radio's Senior Analyst - Ed Bowsher - the only show dedicated to the fast growing world of alternative finance, today featuring Frazer Fearnhead, CEO of property crowdfunding firm 'Housecrowd', a look at rewards-based crowdfunding & crowdfunding news.