Podcasts

Ed Bowsher is away on holiday this week so we have dipped into the archives to bring you some of the best bits from our earliest Crowdfunders shows. In the first part of the show, Ed spoke to Angus Dent from ArchOver and Mike Baliman from the London Fintech Podcast on why the P2P/crowdfunding sector had taken off. In the second part, Ed looked at risk, for savers and lenders across a range of crowdfunding tools. His guests were Angus Dent of Archover, David Stephenson of AltFi & Chris Sier from Finnexis.

Dan Hodges, Political Commentator at the Mail on Sunday, discussed the latest in the world of politics. History has been made in America, after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate. And it's emerged one of the terrorists who attacked a French church was under surveillance by intelligence agents.

Amazon is going to start testing its drone delivery service, with the UK government’s help. Its flying robots will revolutionise how deliveries are made, but some experts have raised concerns around privacy and security. Matt Cox spoke to tech consultant and journalist Chris Green, to find out more.

Time once again for the Consuming Issues news review, with Georgie Frost and is joined by Kevin Pratt from Moneysupermarket.com. And today, they look at the big story of the day - where the GDP for the second quarter of the year picked up by 0.6% - but why was this? Also on the show, southern rail could be hit by more striker. And, Apple's iPhone sales have dropped for a second quarter in a row. All this and more, on Consuming Issues, every day from 9am to Midday, right here on Share Radio.

Richard Gerver discusses his new book, 'Simple Thinking: How to Remove Complexity from Life and Work', about expanding your mind and understanding your true potential through the power of thinking simply.

Every week The AIM Show hears from the boss of one of the companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market.

Every week The AIM Show hears from the boss of one of the companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market.

The new PM Theresa May stressed that Article 50, which gives EU member states a two year window to leave the bloc, would not be invoked this year. However choosing when to activate Article 50 is only part of the story. Could the UK negotiate the terms of a BREXIT and the shape of a future trade relationship, at the same time? What about the business community? Could British and foreign companies exit these shores if the uncertainty drags on? Jan Toporowski is Professor of Finance & Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London. He joined Juliette in the studio along with Professor John Weeks, Share Radio's regular economics commentator.

He's an award winning fund manager with a career of more than 30 years standing whose also been described as "the Warren Buffet of the UK". It's fair to say that Keith Ashworth Lord knows a thing or two about investing and he's the first to acknowledge that Warren Buffet, the legendary US investor known as The Sage of Omaha, has influenced his financial philosophy. In between setting up "Sanford Deland Asset Management" and the "UK Buffettology Fund", Keith Ashworth Lord has also written a book. "Invest in the Best", explains his approach to business and the qualities he looks for in companies that could be potential investment opportunities. Keith Ashworth Lord joins Juliette Foster in the studio.

This week Financial journalists Lindsay Cook and Anne Caborn enter the ring with Georgie about insurance and flooding … and also who will get their sucker punch award this week?