Podcasts

It's estimated that we Brits spent around £4.5 billion on our pets last year - that's up 25% since 2010. And the Christmas treat and present market seems to have gone into overdrive this year. So, forget Brexit, the key question is whether or not you'll be buying your pet a present at Christmas. And, if you have a pet, will it be joining in the festive celebrations? Or perhaps you're heading abroad for a Christmas break and you're not sure who should look after your pet while you're away. Sarah is joined by Dr. Leigh-Anne Brown, a vet and the owner of Vets4Pets in Harrogate, Nicky Trevorrow, Behaviour Manager at Cats Protection and Bill Lambert, Health and Breeder Services Manager at the Kennel Club.

Christmas is supposed to be a time for giving, and millions of children will probably get some sort of cash gift - whether that's a few pounds in a Christmas stocking or a wodge of cash into a junior ISA. But what's the best way to give money away, assuming you have some cash to spare? Whether you want to give money to your children, grandchildren or to charity - what are the options? Sarah's guests are Claire Walsh, head of advice at Unbiased, Les Cameron who's a tax expert at Prudential and Peter King, a solicitor and partner at Nockolds.

Telecoms specialist, author and career development enthusiast Buchi Onwugbonu, joins Sue to talk about his life working alongside top named companies to develop their staff, his early entrepreneurial memories and his book "Jump!: 10 simple rules to guarantee success in your career"

Over the last year we've heard a lot about the gender pay gap, gender pricing, pregnancy discrimination by employers and the rise in state pension age. But, there's been some good news as well - the rise in the number of women taking board positions, the fact that the gender pay gap has narrowed - although it does remain stubbornly high - and we have the second female Prime Minister. To discuss this more Sarah was joined by Belinda Phipps from the Fawcett Society, Anna Sofat, the founder of Addidi, and Praseeda Nair from Vitesse Media, which is staging the Women in Finance Awards.

If you're a millenial - or younger - you're far more likely to use a peer-to-peer lender or crowdfunder than your parents' generation. The peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding markets have grown rapidly and with a rise in the number of financial disrupters, traditional ways of investing and borrowing are being challenged. And others are choosing crowdfunding as a way of raising money for anything from paying off debts to tuition fees. Sarah looks at the pros and cons with her guests; Young Money champion Amelia Murray, Tom Woolf, founder of EdAid, Lucy Bott of Ratesetter and Tom Britton, co-founder of the Syndicate Room.

The Business of Film with film critic, James Cameron Wilson looking at the biggest winners and losers at the box office this week, including Fantastic Beasts, Sully and Arrival.

How much do you think you'd be paid to carry out the tasks involved in organising Christmas? If your guess was £558, then you're spot on. Research commissioned by One4All, the multistore gift card company, reveals that a quarter of us don't mind going above and beyond to make Christmas special for their families. To find out how we can prepare for Christmas and New Year, Olivia Demetriades spoke to Liz Taylor, a party planner and event organiser.

Every week on The Entrepreneur Show we speak to the interesting people behind businesses. This week it's the turn of Jeremy Davies, the CFO and one of the founders of Flender, a social lending network.

Every week on The Entrepreneur Show we speak to the interesting people behind businesses. This week it's the turn of Alex Ziff, who is inventor of a dating app called CiaoDate.

Different styles of investors choose where to put their money for different reasons. Growth investor try to find companies which they think will grow faster than the rest of the stock market, while value investors opt for solid companies which are expected to perform solidly rather than spectacularly over the longer-term. Momentum investors try to cash in on market trends by buying or selling investments as they come in to and go out of fashion. Despite the volatility seen in the last 12 months, 2016 looks to be the year of the value investor, with record levels of investor money flowing in to this investment style. Robyn Dwyer was joined by Simon Colvin, analyst at IHS Markit.