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UK Retail sales rose at their fastest annual rate in 14 years last month. This is according to the Office for National Statistics, which found that they were boosted by the cold weather and Halloween. Volumes for the month rose 7.4% from last October. Simon spoke to Samuel Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics to discuss the figures in more detail.

The Investment Trust Show - brought to you in association with Henderson Global Investors - provides insight into one of the most interesting and misunderstood asset classes. Share Radio's Ed Bowsher pits trusts against ETFs, comparing and contrasting the merits of each type of investment fund. To do so, he's joined by Dice McCairn, Editor of WhichInvestmentTrust.com, and Townsend Lansing, Head of ETCs at ETF Securities.

Over the last six weeks, there's been an interesting trend in the bond market. Bond yields are rising, and bond prices are falling. To put that another way, interest rates are rising. And if you can get a bigger income from bonds, maybe investing in income shares is becoming less attractive. So to find out more about the prospects for income investing in Europe, Share Radio's Ed Bowsher spoke to Will James, Manager of the Standard Life European Equity Income Fund.

Plenty of people are arguing that Donald Trump's presidential election win provides an opportunity for Britain's trading relationship with the United States; in fact, Theresa May said just that in Parliament earlier this week. But is the Prime Minister right? Is a Trump administration good for trade with the UK? To discuss this some more, Patrick Minford, Professor of Applied Economics at the Cardiff Business School joined Share Radio's Ed Bowsher.

Share Radio's Ed Bowsher looks ahead with MoneyWeek's Editor-in-Chief, Merryn Somerset Webb, for the best of this week's magazine. They cover articles on the Trump effect, Japanese funds, pain for buy-to-let investors, and complaints on fund fees.

For this week's Book Review, Share Radio's Ed Bowsher spoke to Bradley Birkenfeld, the author of 'Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy.' Bradley used to be a banker at UBS in Switzerland where he made a lot of money, but he then became a whistleblower for corruption there. He received $104 million in compensation from the IRS in the US - as wel as 30 months in jail in the US for abetting tax evasion by his clients. Email [email protected] to win a free 'Lucifer's Banker' bookmark!

Awareness for new businesses are being celebrated all over the world. Bootcamps and mentoring are being offered as part of entrepreneurship week, which is designed to help new people start new businesses. Former Apprentice runner-up and Business Consultant Yazmina Siadatan joins Georgie on the line.

Almost half of marriage end in divorce. Many of those are left struggling to pay their legal bills. So how you and your wallet get through it? Well, Georgie was joined studio is P.A Ross - writer of How to Profit From Your Divorce. He's written his own account based on his own divorce, and managing his finances in the following years.

When doing your shopping, do you like listening to the Christmas tunes and get you in the festive mood? if not, don't worry, you're not alone. Marks & Spencer's are to abolish piped music in its 300 stores across Britain. Sainsbury’s and Tesco also now don’t use background music in their branches - apart from over the festive period. But why have they done this? Pipedown says it's annoying and creates hearing problems. So Georgie spoke to Nigel Rodgers from Pipedown, to find out why.

New research shows that women's bodies are still unfairly portrayed in the media. Messages on TV, film, magazines and social media that can impact the way they feel about themselves. For more information, Mary Glindon, Labour MP for North Tyneside and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, joined Georgie in on the line and explains the impact the media's portrayal of women is having on their self-esteem, plus the be real campaign.