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The Bottom Line — 434 episodes
The Bottom Line Business Awards 2026
Twenty Years in Business
Imposter Syndrome
The Costs and Benefits of Business Regulation
Digital Nomads
When brands collaborate
How the oil industry works
Trainer Wars
Entrepreneurs: Your Questions Answered
Product Innovation: Better, Or Just New?
How Do You Deal with a Workplace Bully?
Private Renting: Who Wants to Be a Landlord?
Dynamic Pricing: Who Profits?
What Happens When Brands Change Hands?
Airport Lounges: For the Many or the Few?
Boom And Bust: Is AI The New Dotcom Bubble?
USPs: What Is The UK Good At?
Decisions That Made Me: Ben Branson (Seedlip)
Decisions That Made Me: Margaret Heffernan
Decisions That Made Me – Joey Gonzalez (Barry’s)
Decisions That Made Me: Sameer Vuyyuru
Decisions That Made Me: Harry Destecroix (Ziylo, Science Creates, SCVC)
Decisions That Made Me: Sophie Mirman
Decisions That Made Me: Jesper Brodin (IKEA)
Decisions That Made Me: Heather Vernon (Woburn Partners)
Hypotheticals: How Would You React If You Were Boss?
Productivity: How Can British Business Work Smarter?
Introverts: Can Quiet Voices Conquer The Corporate World?
Human Resources: Is HR Out of Control?
Chaos Management: Do Fewer Rules Make For Better Workplaces?
Spinouts: How Can Universities Turn Research Into Successful Businesses?
Direct to Consumer: A Better Way to Sell?
Decisions That Made Me: Greg Jackson (Octopus Energy)
Decisions That Made Me: Charlie Bowes-Lyon (Wild)
Decisions That Made Me: Mark Dixon (IWG)
Decisions That Made Me: Thomas Beahon (Castore Co-Founder)
Decisions That Made Me: Anthony Eskinazi (JustPark Founder)
Decisions That Made Me: Joanna Jensen (Childs Farm Founder)
Decisions That Made Me: Nick Grey (Gtech, Founder and CEO)
Decisions That Made Me: Zak Brown (McLaren Racing, CEO)
The Bottom Line Business Awards 2025
Car Parks: Who's Making Money From Your Ticket?
Scaling Up: What Turns a Start-Up into a Success?
Care Homes: How Will They Cope Without Migrant Workers?
Presentations: How to Avoid 'Death By PowerPoint'
Cyber Attacks: On The Front Line Of A Hack
Pay: What If You Knew What Your Colleagues Earned?
Introducing… The Bottom Line
Made in China: How To Get A Product Manufactured In The Far East
The Decisions That Made Me: Richard Farleigh (Dragon’s Den, entrepreneur)
Decisions That Made Me: Erinch Sahan (DEAL, Social Enterprise expert)
Decisions that Made Me: Sophie O’Brien (Pollen Careers, CEO)
Decisions That Made Me: Sir Kenneth Olisa (technology entrepreneur)
Decisions That Made Me: Chris May (Mayden, Founding Director)
Decisions That Made Me: Claire Daniels (Trio Media, CEO)
Decisions That Made Me: Julian Metcalfe (Itsu and Pret A Manger)
Decisions That Made Me: Sonnaz Nooranvary (House of Sonnaz, upholsterer)
Decisions That Made Me: Alan French (Thomas Cook, CEO)
Running a Business: The Bottom Line Answers Your Questions
Self-checkouts: Have Shops Reached Peak Self-Scan?
London's Stock Exchange: why aren't companies listing in Britain anymore?
Repairs: How Can Businesses Make Money From Fixing Things?
DEI: Are Businesses Dumping Workplace Diversity?
Robots On the Doorstep: Is This The Future Of Food Delivery?
Unbossing: Can We Work Without Managers?
A Four Day Week: Less Work for More People?
Decisions That Made Me: Sir John Hegarty (The Garage Soho, Founder)
Networking: Will It Actually Help Me Get a Job?
Decisions That Made Me: Dana Denis-Smith (Obelisk Support, CEO)
Decisions That Made Me: Jordan Brompton (Myenergi, Co-founder)
Decisions That Made Me: Julian Douglas (VCCP, Global CEO)
Decisions That Made Me: Rob Law (Trunki Suitcases, Inventor)
Decisions That Made Me: Tom Pellereau (Stylideas, Inventor)
Decisions That Made Me: Elmarie Marais (GoCrisis, Founder)
Ideas: How To Turn Your Dreams Into Business Reality
Marketing: How Effective Is Fear In Advertising?
Google: The Couple That Took On The Tech Giant
Evacuation: How to Rescue a Business From a War Zone
Debt: Do Collectors Deserve Their Bad Reputation?
Side Hustles: What's It Like Balancing Two Jobs At Once?
New Tech: How Smart Is the Smart Energy System?
The Bottom Line (unofficial) Business Awards
The business of private schools
Being the new broom
The Business of Dying
Is copyright going wrong?
Is work getting more intense?
Hype
Electric Cars: Made in China?
Dragon's Den's Duncan Bannatyne
The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: I Started My Business From Mum's Spare Bedroom
The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: The Depop Story
The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: Lastminute.com's Martha Lane Fox
The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: How Ice Saved My Life
The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: How To Retire Before 30
In the eye of a crisis
Rethinking retirement
Where's the life in nightlife?
Navigating the Say-Do Gap
Feedback
Meat
Many unhappy returns
Bringing your 'whole self' to work
Meetings
Blockbuster drugs
The Age of the Train?
In denial
Rebranding
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis
Tradespeople
Back to the office
Does Funny Sell?
What next for water?
Business on 'the box'
Pre-loved
Dame Sharon White
Managing millennials (and Gen Z)
Flying Circus?
Are supermarkets profiteering?
Business Books
How to Hire
Powered by AI
Running Rolls Royce
Podcasting
The French correction?
Too much choice?
How Strikes Come to an End
Opportunists and Optimists
Turning Passion into Profit
A new era for the housing market?
The business of being a GP
Dealing in Defence
Changing Tack
Has Britain stopped working?
Excess Profits, Windfall Taxes and Incentives
Little Boxes?
Russian Exodus
Woke or Broke?
'Sorry, all our agents are busy right now'
Employment Tribunals
How to run a petrol station
Online Reviews
The price of bread
Business and Energy
Levelling Up
Changing China
Russia and the global economy
Buy Now, Pay Later
Alcohol-free drinks
The Price Shock
Your childhood in the workplace
Conflict at Work
Class in the workplace
The Lottery Business
The Quick Commerce Economy
Carbon Capture
Hybrid working
Labour shortages and the new model economy
Clinical Trials
Carbon labelling
Rolling out electric vehicles
The Purple Pound
The Future of Cruises
Sound of the suburbs
Ramping up capacity
The future of money
Billionaires
Hydrogen future
How to set up an EU subsidiary.
The Satellite Business
The Reddit Revolutionaries
Net Zero in the house
The Covid Hangover
Return to Brexit
Competence
Sector Shutdown
Commercial Property Wars
Bolton Business
COVID-19 and the gig economy
Cybersecurity
The economy - winter is coming
WPP boss Karen Blackett on obstacles to diversity in the workplace
How to build a racially diverse business
Transport after the pandemic
How we work now - lessons from lockdown
Can science save the economy?
Post-pandemic resilience
Consumer habits after lockdown
China
Saving Companies
Business hype
Coronavirus and business
The working week
Couples in Business
Dismissing staff
Business Gurus
Managing Conflict
Insolvency
Plant-based foods
Cryptocurrencies
The Future of Commercial Aviation
Lessons of Theranos
The investment industry - luck or judgement?
The discounters
Pivoting
Commerce and Crime
The Fitness Industry
The Last Mile
Anti-Biotic Resistance
Planning for uncertainty
Feedback frenzy
Internships
The personalisation revolution
Magazines
Are auditors fit for purpose?
Behavioural science in the workplace
University Businesses
The Internet of Things
Business in the era of #MeToo
Super-premium drinks
The Experience Economy
Plastics
Shortages
Rewriting the rules of Business
The Festival Business
Advertising
How does the commodities business work?
Why do companies do bad things?
Should CEOs have term limits?
Franchising
Is any company ever invulnerable?
Co-working Spaces
Will 5G revolutionise our lives?
Teenage Business Entrepreneurs
The EU after Brexit – A special programme together with The Briefing Room
Do corporate headquarters still matter?
Is strategy necessary for success?
The Ethics of Business
Who Owns British Companies?
Turning Tables
The Shock of the New
How to Build a Bridge
Sir Terry Leahy
Department Stores
Foreign Investment in the UK
Pets Mean Pounds
Agents
Is there a business case for having a diverse workforce?
Shake-up in the skies
Batteries
There's no business like show business
Cost cutting and business transformation
One Company, Many Brands
Land - the mother of all monopolies
When Robots Take our Jobs
Corporate Espionage
The Future of Farming
The Bottom Line: Can We Trust Big Business?
Britain's nuclear future
Migrant Entrepreneurs
Fintech
The Secrets of Fixing a Price
How does stuff get to us?
The UK Space Industry
Managing Workplace Relationships
The Challenges of Running a Charity
Care Homes
Negotiating a Trade Deal
17/11/2016
The Future of the Car Industry
The Youth Market
Selling Corporate Baby
Activist Investors
Careers without College
Brexit: What Next?
Theresanomics
How to Build an Olympics
Brave or Naive?
The Price of Life
Life after Brexit
How to Negotiate
The Finance of Films
Old Dog, New Tricks
Profit or plunder?
EU Referendum
Life after a Blockbuster
Lonely at the Top?
Horse Racing
Tax Avoidance
Now We Are Ten
Data Privacy
Customer Service
Renewable Energy
Managing the Boardroom
The Northern Powerhouse
Breaking the Mould
Financial Engineering
Fast Fashion
Sponsorship
Going Public
Crisis at VW: A Bottom Line Special
Art and the Business of Taste
Supermarkets
Entrepreneurs and Education
Newspapers - to pay or not to pay?
Newspapers - to pay or not to pay?
Burger Battles
Angel Investors
Outsourcing
Corruption
Failure
Productivity
Corporate Scandal
Football's Billions
Going Global
Whatever Happened To?
Waiting in Line: The Business of Queuing
Inventors
Gold
Trading Places
The Price of Time
Upside-down Management
Family Rivals
Live Long and Prosper
Wearable Technology
Flash Sales
TripAdvisor Etc
Celebrities and Fans
The Saviour Returns
Recalls
Location, Disruption, Location
Second-Hand Trade
Mental Health
Single Product Companies
The Muslim Pound
Sex and Drugs
Bitcoin
Cyber Security
Serving the Super-Rich
Energy Upstarts
Transformation
Chocolate
Self-Improvement
Life After CEO
TV Formats
MBAs
The Sharing Economy
Design
Shipping
Planning for the Future
Deals
Who's the Boss?
Digital Marketplaces
The Business of War
Big Data
Investor Relations
Water
Futurology for Business
Managing in a Crisis
Start-ups
Food
Travel
Recruitment
The App Industry
The Education Business
21/03/2013
Turnarounds
Doing Business with Governments
Retail
Business in Africa
Alternative Finance
Books
Gambling
Family Firms
Planet New
Financial Services
Pricing
The World of Sport
Overcrowded markets
Quality
Boardroom battles
Products
20/09/2012
12/07/2012
05/07/2012
28/06/2012
21/06/2012
14/06/2012
07/06/2012
31/05/2012
Ruthlessness
22/03/2012
Leadership
Cock-ups and Conspiracies
Reinvention
Selling Expertise
Young Entrepreneurs
Big Egos
Automotive
Capitalism
Ambition
Business Bonds
Special Relationship
Product Proliferation
Producers or Parasites?
Marketing and Mess
Startups and Mistakes
McDonald's and New Tech
Economy and Rumours
Limits of Automation
Profits and Pitfalls
The Future of the Web
Keeping Score
Contacts and Contracts
Raw Materials
Is Greed is Good?
Fashion
Major Disaster Plans
Slow Growth
Business Time
Consumer Research
19/02/2011
10/02/2011
03/02/2011
27/01/2011
18/11/2010
11/11/2010
04/11/2010
28/10/2010
21/10/2010
14/10/2010
07/10/2010
30/09/2010
23/09/2010