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The Bottom Line — 425 episodes

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Entrepreneurs: Your Questions Answered

2

Product Innovation: Better, Or Just New?

3

How Do You Deal with a Workplace Bully?

4

Private Renting: Who Wants to Be a Landlord?

5

Dynamic Pricing: Who Profits?

6

What Happens When Brands Change Hands?

7

Airport Lounges: For the Many or the Few?

8

Boom And Bust: Is AI The New Dotcom Bubble?

9

USPs: What Is The UK Good At?

10

Decisions That Made Me: Ben Branson (Seedlip)

11

Decisions That Made Me: Margaret Heffernan

12

Decisions That Made Me – Joey Gonzalez (Barry’s)

13

Decisions That Made Me: Sameer Vuyyuru

14

Decisions That Made Me: Harry Destecroix (Ziylo, Science Creates, SCVC)

15

Decisions That Made Me: Sophie Mirman

16

Decisions That Made Me: Jesper Brodin (IKEA)

17

Decisions That Made Me: Heather Vernon (Woburn Partners)

18

Hypotheticals: How Would You React If You Were Boss?

19

Productivity: How Can British Business Work Smarter?

20

Introverts: Can Quiet Voices Conquer The Corporate World?

21

Human Resources: Is HR Out of Control?

22

Chaos Management: Do Fewer Rules Make For Better Workplaces?

23

Spinouts: How Can Universities Turn Research Into Successful Businesses?

24

Direct to Consumer: A Better Way to Sell?

25

Decisions That Made Me: Greg Jackson (Octopus Energy)

26

Decisions That Made Me: Charlie Bowes-Lyon (Wild)

27

Decisions That Made Me: Mark Dixon (IWG)

28

Decisions That Made Me: Thomas Beahon (Castore Co-Founder)

29

Decisions That Made Me: Anthony Eskinazi (JustPark Founder)

30

Decisions That Made Me: Joanna Jensen (Childs Farm Founder)

31

Decisions That Made Me: Nick Grey (Gtech, Founder and CEO)

32

Decisions That Made Me: Zak Brown (McLaren Racing, CEO)

33

The Bottom Line Business Awards 2025

34

Car Parks: Who's Making Money From Your Ticket?

35

Scaling Up: What Turns a Start-Up into a Success?

36

Care Homes: How Will They Cope Without Migrant Workers?

37

Presentations: How to Avoid 'Death By PowerPoint'

38

Cyber Attacks: On The Front Line Of A Hack

39

Pay: What If You Knew What Your Colleagues Earned?

40

Introducing… The Bottom Line

41

Made in China: How To Get A Product Manufactured In The Far East

42

The Decisions That Made Me: Richard Farleigh (Dragon’s Den, entrepreneur)

43

Decisions That Made Me: Erinch Sahan (DEAL, Social Enterprise expert)

44

Decisions that Made Me: Sophie O’Brien (Pollen Careers, CEO)

45

Decisions That Made Me: Sir Kenneth Olisa (technology entrepreneur)

46

Decisions That Made Me: Chris May (Mayden, Founding Director)

47

Decisions That Made Me: Claire Daniels (Trio Media, CEO)

48

Decisions That Made Me: Julian Metcalfe (Itsu and Pret A Manger)

49

Decisions That Made Me: Sonnaz Nooranvary (House of Sonnaz, upholsterer)

50

Decisions That Made Me: Alan French (Thomas Cook, CEO)

51

Running a Business: The Bottom Line Answers Your Questions

52

Self-checkouts: Have Shops Reached Peak Self-Scan?

53

London's Stock Exchange: why aren't companies listing in Britain anymore?

54

Repairs: How Can Businesses Make Money From Fixing Things?

55

DEI: Are Businesses Dumping Workplace Diversity?

56

Robots On the Doorstep: Is This The Future Of Food Delivery?

57

Unbossing: Can We Work Without Managers?

58

A Four Day Week: Less Work for More People?

59

Decisions That Made Me: Sir John Hegarty (The Garage Soho, Founder)

60

Networking: Will It Actually Help Me Get a Job?

61

Decisions That Made Me: Dana Denis-Smith (Obelisk Support, CEO)

62

Decisions That Made Me: Jordan Brompton (Myenergi, Co-founder)

63

Decisions That Made Me: Julian Douglas (VCCP, Global CEO)

64

Decisions That Made Me: Rob Law (Trunki Suitcases, Inventor)

65

Decisions That Made Me: Tom Pellereau (Stylideas, Inventor)

66

Decisions That Made Me: Elmarie Marais (GoCrisis, Founder)

67

Ideas: How To Turn Your Dreams Into Business Reality

68

Marketing: How Effective Is Fear In Advertising?

69

Google: The Couple That Took On The Tech Giant

70

Evacuation: How to Rescue a Business From a War Zone

71

Debt: Do Collectors Deserve Their Bad Reputation?

72

Side Hustles: What's It Like Balancing Two Jobs At Once?

73

New Tech: How Smart Is the Smart Energy System?

74

The Bottom Line (unofficial) Business Awards

75

The business of private schools

76

Being the new broom

77

The Business of Dying

78

Is copyright going wrong?

79

Is work getting more intense?

80

Hype

81

Electric Cars: Made in China?

82

Dragon's Den's Duncan Bannatyne

83

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: I Started My Business From Mum's Spare Bedroom

84

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: The Depop Story

85

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: Lastminute.com's Martha Lane Fox

86

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: How Ice Saved My Life

87

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: How To Retire Before 30

88

In the eye of a crisis

89

Rethinking retirement

90

Where's the life in nightlife?

91

Navigating the Say-Do Gap

92

Feedback

93

Meat

94

Many unhappy returns

95

Bringing your 'whole self' to work

96

Meetings

97

Blockbuster drugs

98

The Age of the Train?

99

In denial

100

Rebranding

101

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis

102

Tradespeople

103

Back to the office

104

Does Funny Sell?

105

What next for water?

106

Business on 'the box'

107

Pre-loved

108

Dame Sharon White

109

Managing millennials (and Gen Z)

110

Flying Circus?

111

Are supermarkets profiteering?

112

Business Books

113

How to Hire

114

Powered by AI

115

Running Rolls Royce

116

Podcasting

117

The French correction?

118

Too much choice?

119

How Strikes Come to an End

120

Opportunists and Optimists

121

Turning Passion into Profit

122

A new era for the housing market?

123

The business of being a GP

124

Dealing in Defence

125

Changing Tack

126

Has Britain stopped working?

127

Excess Profits, Windfall Taxes and Incentives

128

Little Boxes?

129

Russian Exodus

130

Woke or Broke?

131

'Sorry, all our agents are busy right now'

132

Employment Tribunals

133

How to run a petrol station

134

Online Reviews

135

The price of bread

136

Business and Energy

137

Levelling Up

138

Changing China

139

Russia and the global economy

140

Buy Now, Pay Later

141

Alcohol-free drinks

142

The Price Shock

143

Your childhood in the workplace

144

Conflict at Work

145

Class in the workplace

146

The Lottery Business

147

The Quick Commerce Economy

148

Carbon Capture

149

Hybrid working

150

Labour shortages and the new model economy

151

Clinical Trials

152

Carbon labelling

153

Rolling out electric vehicles

154

The Purple Pound

155

The Future of Cruises

156

Sound of the suburbs

157

Ramping up capacity

158

The future of money

159

Billionaires

160

Hydrogen future

161

How to set up an EU subsidiary.

162

The Satellite Business

163

The Reddit Revolutionaries

164

Net Zero in the house

165

The Covid Hangover

166

Return to Brexit

167

Competence

168

Sector Shutdown

169

Commercial Property Wars

170

Bolton Business

171

COVID-19 and the gig economy

172

Cybersecurity

173

The economy - winter is coming

174

WPP boss Karen Blackett on obstacles to diversity in the workplace

175

How to build a racially diverse business

176

Transport after the pandemic

177

How we work now - lessons from lockdown

178

Can science save the economy?

179

Post-pandemic resilience

180

Consumer habits after lockdown

181

China

182

Saving Companies

183

Business hype

184

Coronavirus and business

185

The working week

186

Couples in Business

187

Dismissing staff

188

Business Gurus

189

Managing Conflict

190

Insolvency

191

Plant-based foods

192

Cryptocurrencies

193

The Future of Commercial Aviation

194

Lessons of Theranos

195

The investment industry - luck or judgement?

196

The discounters

197

Pivoting

198

Commerce and Crime

199

The Fitness Industry

200

The Last Mile

201

Anti-Biotic Resistance

202

Planning for uncertainty

203

Feedback frenzy

204

Internships

205

The personalisation revolution

206

Magazines

207

Are auditors fit for purpose?

208

Behavioural science in the workplace

209

University Businesses

210

The Internet of Things

211

Business in the era of #MeToo

212

Super-premium drinks

213

The Experience Economy

214

Plastics

215

Shortages

216

Rewriting the rules of Business

217

The Festival Business

218

Advertising

219

How does the commodities business work?

220

Why do companies do bad things?

221

Should CEOs have term limits?

222

Franchising

223

Is any company ever invulnerable?

224

Co-working Spaces

225

Will 5G revolutionise our lives?

226

Teenage Business Entrepreneurs

227

The EU after Brexit – A special programme together with The Briefing Room

228

Do corporate headquarters still matter?

229

Is strategy necessary for success?

230

The Ethics of Business

231

Who Owns British Companies?

232

Turning Tables

233

The Shock of the New

234

How to Build a Bridge

235

Sir Terry Leahy

236

Department Stores

237

Foreign Investment in the UK

238

Pets Mean Pounds

239

Agents

240

Is there a business case for having a diverse workforce?

241

Shake-up in the skies

242

Batteries

243

There's no business like show business

244

Cost cutting and business transformation

245

One Company, Many Brands

246

Land - the mother of all monopolies

247

When Robots Take our Jobs

248

Corporate Espionage

249

The Future of Farming

250

The Bottom Line: Can We Trust Big Business?

251

Britain's nuclear future

252

Migrant Entrepreneurs

253

Fintech

254

The Secrets of Fixing a Price

255

How does stuff get to us?

256

The UK Space Industry

257

Managing Workplace Relationships

258

The Challenges of Running a Charity

259

Care Homes

260

Negotiating a Trade Deal

261

17/11/2016

262

The Future of the Car Industry

263

The Youth Market

264

Selling Corporate Baby

265

Activist Investors

266

Careers without College

267

Brexit: What Next?

268

Theresanomics

269

How to Build an Olympics

270

Brave or Naive?

271

The Price of Life

272

Life after Brexit

273

How to Negotiate

274

The Finance of Films

275

Old Dog, New Tricks

276

Profit or plunder?

277

EU Referendum

278

Life after a Blockbuster

279

Lonely at the Top?

280

Horse Racing

281

Tax Avoidance

282

Now We Are Ten

283

Data Privacy

284

Customer Service

285

Renewable Energy

286

Managing the Boardroom

287

The Northern Powerhouse

288

Breaking the Mould

289

Financial Engineering

290

Fast Fashion

291

Sponsorship

292

Going Public

293

Crisis at VW: A Bottom Line Special

294

Art and the Business of Taste

295

Supermarkets

296

Entrepreneurs and Education

297

Newspapers - to pay or not to pay?

298

Burger Battles

299

Angel Investors

300

Outsourcing

301

Corruption

302

Failure

303

Productivity

304

Corporate Scandal

305

Football's Billions

306

Going Global

307

Whatever Happened To?

308

Waiting in Line: The Business of Queuing

309

Inventors

310

Gold

311

Trading Places

312

The Price of Time

313

Upside-down Management

314

Family Rivals

315

Live Long and Prosper

316

Wearable Technology

317

Flash Sales

318

TripAdvisor Etc

319

Celebrities and Fans

320

The Saviour Returns

321

Recalls

322

Location, Disruption, Location

323

Second-Hand Trade

324

Mental Health

325

Single Product Companies

326

The Muslim Pound

327

Sex and Drugs

328

Bitcoin

329

Cyber Security

330

Serving the Super-Rich

331

Energy Upstarts

332

Transformation

333

Chocolate

334

Self-Improvement

335

Life After CEO

336

TV Formats

337

MBAs

338

The Sharing Economy

339

Design

340

Shipping

341

Planning for the Future

342

Deals

343

Who's the Boss?

344

Digital Marketplaces

345

The Business of War

346

Big Data

347

Investor Relations

348

Water

349

Futurology for Business

350

Managing in a Crisis

351

Start-ups

352

Food

353

Travel

354

Recruitment

355

The App Industry

356

The Education Business

357

21/03/2013

358

Turnarounds

359

Doing Business with Governments

360

Retail

361

Business in Africa

362

Alternative Finance

363

Books

364

Gambling

365

Family Firms

366

Planet New

367

Financial Services

368

Pricing

369

The World of Sport

370

Overcrowded markets

371

Quality

372

Boardroom battles

373

Products

374

20/09/2012

375

12/07/2012

376

05/07/2012

377

28/06/2012

378

21/06/2012

379

14/06/2012

380

07/06/2012

381

31/05/2012

382

Ruthlessness

383

22/03/2012

384

Leadership

385

Cock-ups and Conspiracies

386

Reinvention

387

Selling Expertise

388

Young Entrepreneurs

389

Big Egos

390

Automotive

391

Capitalism

392

Ambition

393

Business Bonds

394

Special Relationship

395

Product Proliferation

396

Producers or Parasites?

397

Marketing and Mess

398

Startups and Mistakes

399

McDonald's and New Tech

400

Economy and Rumours

401

Limits of Automation

402

Profits and Pitfalls

403

The Future of the Web

404

Keeping Score

405

Contacts and Contracts

406

Raw Materials

407

Is Greed is Good?

408

Fashion

409

Major Disaster Plans

410

Slow Growth

411

Business Time

412

Consumer Research

413

19/02/2011

414

10/02/2011

415

03/02/2011

416

27/01/2011

417

18/11/2010

418

11/11/2010

419

04/11/2010

420

28/10/2010

421

21/10/2010

422

14/10/2010

423

07/10/2010

424

30/09/2010

425

23/09/2010