Episodes
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Birds, Bees and Business - Why Nature Matters (With The Wildlife Trusts and Landsec)
In this last episode of The Big Green Money Show, find out about Deborah's lifelong passion for nature and how she believes businesses can and should do more to protect it. Listener Poppy has a question for the team. And why does Deborah go barefoot into the garden every day; come rain, shine or...
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Medicines and Healthcare, with GSK
From disposable gloves to surgical instruments, how could healthcare be greener? Can we prescribe medicines in greener ways? And can we reduce paper use and other forms of waste? Deborah and Fliss chat to an expert in sustainablity in healthcare about what the NHS is getting right and what needs…
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Palm oil, plastic and ice cream, with Unilever
Deborah and Fliss discover the small treat with a big environmental impact that's eating into the carbon footprint of consumer giant Unilever. Plus why is palm oil a problem, why is it in everything, and what is Unilever doing about it? And listener Sheila wants to know how to recycle old clothes...
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Planet-friendly periods
Could a lack of knowledge and understanding be holding us back from trying more sustainable period products? Have you ever considered using a menstrual cup but been unsure if it would work for you? Or wondered about the impact of single use tampons and pads? Then get ready for a very frank and…
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Comedy, Climate and Pensions, with screenwriter Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis co-founded Comic Relief as well as writing some of our best known comedies including Blackadder and Love Actually. But did you know he's also a passionate campaigner about the power of pensions? Richard tells Deborah and Fliss why he believes our pensions could be a "mega-weapon"…
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Water, Sewage and Fatbergs, with Thames Water CEO
Water companies are under the spotlight as public concern grows over sewage spills into our rivers and beaches. In the hotseat today is the CEO of the UK's biggest, Thames Water. Sarah Bentley agrees the company can do better and says she's on a mission to turn it around. Plus how much water does...
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Buses, with Stagecoach UK MD
This week Deborah Meaden and Felicity Hannah have been finding out how getting more of us onto buses is key to cutting transport emissions and giving us cleaner air. And if you're a car driver, here's a question. What would tempt you to use a bus instead? Deborah and Fliss talk through the…
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Back to School
Today Deborah and Fliss learn about the brilliant work some schools are doing to be more sustainable. They visit the children and teachers at St Winifred's RC Primary in Lewisham. They hear how head teachers are facing massive increases in energy bills whilst trying to balance the books, and ask...
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Electric Cars: Are There Enough Chargers?
Almost one in five new cars sold in 2022 were electric. But is the public charging network keeping up with sales? Deborah and Fliss talk to listener and EV driver Steve to hear his experience. They grill the boss of charging company Pod Point and meet Badar who is upskilling from a petrol and...
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How Green Is Our Grid? With National Grid.
Deborah and Fliss meet Alice Delahunty, President of National Grid's transmission service. They find out what part renewables play in today's electricity supply and exactly when we can expect a 100% green grid. And if you think solar panels are only for the rich, find out about the Welsh social...
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How To Get A Green Job
Deborah and Fliss are back for Series 4! Today's show is all about green jobs. What is a green job? And how do I get one? Meet the young woman who was inspired to give up a career in hairdressing to chase her dream of working on offshore wind farms. She's now in her first year of an…
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New Year's Resolutions
After a year of making The Big Green Money Show, it's time for Deborah Meaden and Felicity Hannah to think about changes they can make to their own lives in 2023. So with help from some of their favourite experts, they come up with four simple, easy and very cheap new year's resolutions to lower...
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Best of The Big Green Money Show
Deborah Meaden and Felicity Hannah look back at the best bits from this year’s episodes, featuring some of the world's biggest business names talking about the biggest problem facing the planet: climate change. They pick from the conversations that made them laugh, surprised them, and inspired…
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Christmas Special
Christmas is a time to celebrate with family and friends but its true meaning can get lost in a blizzard of panic-buying, over-consumption and waste. So this year, as the cost of living crisis bites, Deborah Meaden and Felicity Hannah are on a mission to help you spend and waste less, but keep…
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Bottles, with Guinness and Baileys maker Diageo.
Can we lower the environmental impact of a bottle of gin? And do customers need to rethink their expectations of what fancy drinks bottles should look and feel like? Diageo makes some of the world's best known drinks brands, including Guinness, Gordons and Smirnoff. Deborah and Fliss talk…
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How Green is Football? With Aston Villa and Forest Green Rovers
Deborah and Fliss look at the business of football and examine claims from the World Cup organisers that 2022 will see the first ever carbon neutral world cup. They talk to the chairman of Forest Green Rovers which has been described as "the greenest club on the planet". And back in 2019 Aston...
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How To Be A Greener Pet Owner, with Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
So many listeners asked the Green Money team about this! So by popular demand, Deborah & Fliss take a look at how to be a sustainable pet owner. They visit Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to investigate food choices, vet treatments and to find out what our pets really need to live long, happy and...
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The Big Green Money Guide to COP, with the UK Climate Change Committee
World leaders are descending on Egypt for this year's COP climate change talks. So what is COP? Why does it matter? And is the UK on target to keep its own promise to reach net zero by 2050? Deborah and Fliss put all those questions and more to Chris Stark who, leads the UK Climate Change…
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DIY in a Cost of Living Crisis, with B&Q CEO
Busting the myth that being green costs money, Deborah and Fliss learn about how DIY can save you cash and help you do the right thing for the planet. They talk to the boss of B&Q about how sales of home insulation products are soaring, and find out how the company is trying to lower its...
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Making TV Shows, with the BBC & Albert
From CGI to costume dramas to Dragons' Den, what's being done to lower the impact of making our favourite TV shows? Deborah and Fliss turn the spotlight on themselves to look at the world of TV (and radio) production. They discover why its footprint can be so high and what's being done to lower…
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How to Recycle: With Biffa CEO
Why is recycling green? What can I put into my bins? Did you know you shouldn't recycle broken drinking glasses? Deborah and Fliss take a stack of listener questions and head off for a day out to a Biffa recycling centre in North London. They meet Biffa boss Michael Topham and discover what…
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Hair and Beauty: With L'Oreal
Deborah and Felicity discover some startling facts about the impact of our hair, beauty and personal care routines. They talk to the person in charge of sustainability at the world's biggest cosmetics company L'Oreal and discover why the time we spend in the shower is showing up on the company's...
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Housebuilding with Barratt Homes CEO
Deborah and Fliss grill the boss of Barratt Homes about the company's promises to build greener homes. They discover cement is far more interesting than they'd ever imagined. Did you know it's responsible for a staggering 8% of global CO2 emissions? They find out why it is so hard to decarbonise...
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Energy bills and EVs, with Octopus CEO
As households around the UK wonder how they'll afford this winter's energy bills, Fliss and Deborah talk to Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of Octopus Energy about some of the myths around green energy. They talk about whether more or less green energy is the answer to the current crisis, and...
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Carbon, Consoles and The Cloud, with Microsoft UK and Professor Mike Berners-Lee
They make everything from the software we use at work, to games consoles and laptops. Microsoft says eventually it wants to remove all of the carbon it's emitted since 1975, but in the meantime its emissions are still rising. So what is the company doing to tackle that and is it right to place so...
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Cost of Living Special: Are you wasting too much food?
In this week's Big Green Money Show, Dragons' Den's Deborah Meaden and 5 Live's Felicity Hannah find out about the scale of food waste in our homes, restaurants and businesses. It's sparked by a question from listener Wade in Shropshire, answered by Helen White from the environmental organisation...
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How To Have a Greener Funeral
'I’m going home to tell my husband I want a cardboard coffin'. In this week’s Big Green Money Show, Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden and BBC 5 Live's Felicity Hannah find out about greener funerals – and for Felicity in particular it turned out to be a life-changing episode. Meanwhile Deborah…
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Energy Crisis Special: Warming Our Homes For Winter
Average energy bills have hit record highs and are predicted to rise even further this winter. Meanwhile the government has been warned the UK is falling badly behind on targets to insulate our draughty homes. Improving the energy efficiency of our houses is a key part of reaching net zero, but…
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For Peat's Sake
The government is considering banning the retail sale of peat in compost, so can the supply chain cope if a ban comes in? Lots of gardeners insist peat-free compost is inferior as well, are they right? Dobbies, Britain’ biggest garden centre chain, stopped selling peat-based composts at the...
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Emergency Episode: The Hottest UK Day Ever
This wasn't the episode they'd planned to make! But after the heatwave messed up Deborah Meaden and Felicity Hannah's plans to meet up, they decided to make an emergency episode looking at whether the hot weather is being driven by climate change. They look at just how unusual this heat is, to…
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Is it OK to offset my carbon?
Deborah Meaden and Felicity Hannah are back and this time they're investigating carbon offsetting. Many businesses use offsets as part of their journey to net zero. So what are they and how do they work? It turns out it's not as simple as planting a tree! In fact, to show it is about so much more...
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Why is it so hard to fix things when they break? With Beko and eSpares
Dragons' Den favourite Deborah Meaden and Felicity Hannah return to take another look at what our biggest businesses are doing to reduce their impact on the planet. Today they investigate why it’s so difficult to get our stuff fixed when it breaks. They find out about a new right to repair law...
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Tackling Plastics and Greenwashing
Dragon’s Den investor Deborah Meaden and 5Live’s Felicity Hannah have teamed up to help us make the best and greenest use of our money and to find out how businesses are lowering their impact on the planet. In the last episode of this series the pair answer listener questions about plastics. Is...
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Pensions: Exciting, Dangerous and Green? With Aviva Investors CEO
Dragons' Den investor Deborah Meaden and Radio 5 Live's Felicity Hannah are on a mission to discover what big business is doing to clean up its impact on the planet. After listeners got in touch to ask about green and ethical pensions, the pair discover how the trillions of pounds we put aside…
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Green hydrogen explained
Listeners of The Big Green Money Show have been getting in touch to ask Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden and BBC Radio 5 Live’s Felicity Hannah to investigate green hydrogen. In this episode the pair find out what it is and how it could help get us to net zero by powering engines, heating homes…
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Going Nuclear with Rolls-Royce CEO
Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden and BBC 5 Live’s Felicity Hannah are on a mission to help you make the best and greenest use of your money. This week they talk to the boss of engine maker Rolls-Royce about when zero-emissions flight will become a reality. As well as making the engines which…
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Can fast fashion be green? With Primark
Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden and BBC 5 Live’s Felicity Hannah are on a mission to find out how your money matters in the fight against climate change. This week they tackle fashion. Primark has promised all its clothes will be made of sustainable materials by the end of the decade. Deborah…
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Energy crisis special with British Gas CEO
Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden and BBC 5 Live’s Felicity Hannah are on a mission to find out how your money matters in the fight against climate change. As energy bills go up again, this week’s episode is all about how we heat and power our homes. Deborah and Fliss talk to Chris O’Shea, boss of...
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Packaging and Palm Oil
Dragon’s Den favourite Deborah Meaden has teamed up with Wake Up To Money’s Felicity Hannah to help us make the best use of our money in the fight against climate change. They’re on a mission to answer listener’s questions. Today it’s about how to stop feeling overwhelmed when trying to make...
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Can capitalism ever be green?
Dragon’s Den favourite Deborah Meaden has teamed up with Wake Up To Money’s Felicity Hannah to find out how our money matters in the fight against climate change. As always, they answer listeners’ questions and this week’s is a biggie: Can capitalism be trusted with the job of tackling climate...
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Are we ready for EVs? With Vauxhall's UK MD
The UK will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030. So Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden is on a mission to find out if we’re ready. Deborah and co-star Felicity Hannah talk to the boss of Vauxhall about the company’s plans to turn its production lines all-electric. Plus they answer…
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Can flying ever be green? With easyJet CEO
Welcome to the The Big Green Money Show! Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden is on a mission to find out what our biggest (and smallest) companies are doing to reduce their impact on the planet. This week, Deborah and co-star, Wake Up To Money's Felicity Hannah, talk to easyJet CEO Johan Lundgren...
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A podcast sneak preview…
Welcome to The Big Green Money Show! Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden is on a mission to find out from big and small businesses about what they are doing to tackle their climate impacts. In this sneak preview, Deborah chats to her co-star – Wake Up To Money’s Felicity Hannah – about what the…
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