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David Smith, Economics Editor of the Sunday Times, discusses his new book 'Something Will Turn Up', which looks at Britain's unstable economic history

Last month saw an explosion in the Chinese port town of Tianjin. Besides the tragic loss of life, how are businesses and industries impacted? Joe Aldridge has been finding out by speaking with Chris Moss, Director of Risk Consulting at Charles Taylor, and Lili Yang, Leader in Emergency Management at Loughborough University.

The High Pay Centre is about to release a collection of essays on the economics and metrics of pay ratios. Paul Marsland, a research consultant and leader of the High Pay Centre's work, joins Mark Johnson and Chris Bailey to discuss.

Episode 5 of The Apprentice Investor

Matthew Cook visits Artbox London, a registered charity and social enterprise that helps artists with learning disabilities to create artwork, as well as running art workshops to provide opportunities for the artists to exhibit their work in galleries and sell them to the public.

Colin Bloom is joined on the phone with Louis Reynolds, a researcher for the Citizenship Programme at the think tank Demos, about integration and immigration to the UK.

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Sarah Pennells is joined in the studio by Grant Smith from the National Allotment Society and on the phone with Ruth Hayes, a reporter for the Amateur Gardening Magazine and Martyn Foulds from Halifax Home Insurance to answer your gardening questions and to discuss some of the costs involved from owning an allotment to buying and growing your own fruit and veg and of course making sure your prized plants and gardening equipment is covered with the correct insurance plan.

Every week we cherry-pick the the best content from each strand so you don't miss a thing.

Sarah Pennells is joined in the studio by Laura Whitcombe, deputy editor of Moneywise and on the phone by Simon Besswell, director at The DIY School, and Martyn Foulds from Halifax Home Insurance to discuss DIY jobs you can do around the house to save you money, what you should avoid doing yourself and courses you can take to become more DIY savvy, only on Women And Money.