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The Bottom Line — 433 episodes

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Twenty Years in Business

2

Imposter Syndrome

3

The Costs and Benefits of Business Regulation

4

Digital Nomads

5

When brands collaborate

6

How the oil industry works

7

Trainer Wars

8

Entrepreneurs: Your Questions Answered

9

Product Innovation: Better, Or Just New?

10

How Do You Deal with a Workplace Bully?

11

Private Renting: Who Wants to Be a Landlord?

12

Dynamic Pricing: Who Profits?

13

What Happens When Brands Change Hands?

14

Airport Lounges: For the Many or the Few?

15

Boom And Bust: Is AI The New Dotcom Bubble?

16

USPs: What Is The UK Good At?

17

Decisions That Made Me: Ben Branson (Seedlip)

18

Decisions That Made Me: Margaret Heffernan

19

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

20

Decisions That Made Me: Sameer Vuyyuru

21

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

22

Decisions That Made Me: Sophie Mirman

23

Decisions That Made Me: Jesper Brodin (IKEA)

24

Decisions That Made Me: Heather Vernon (Woburn Partners)

25

Hypotheticals: How Would You React If You Were Boss?

26

Productivity: How Can British Business Work Smarter?

27

Introverts: Can Quiet Voices Conquer The Corporate World?

28

Human Resources: Is HR Out of Control?

29

Chaos Management: Do Fewer Rules Make For Better Workplaces?

30

Spinouts: How Can Universities Turn Research Into Successful Businesses?

31

Direct to Consumer: A Better Way to Sell?

32

Decisions That Made Me: Greg Jackson (Octopus Energy)

33

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

34

Decisions That Made Me: Mark Dixon (IWG)

35

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

36

Decisions That Made Me: Anthony Eskinazi (JustPark Founder)

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

The Bottom Line Business Awards 2025

41

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

42

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

43

Care Homes: How Will They Cope Without Migrant Workers?

44

Presentations: How to Avoid 'Death By PowerPoint'

45

Cyber Attacks: On The Front Line Of A Hack

46

Pay: What If You Knew What Your Colleagues Earned?

47

Introducing… The Bottom Line

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

Running a Business: The Bottom Line Answers Your Questions

59

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

60

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

61

Repairs: How Can Businesses Make Money From Fixing Things?

62

DEI: Are Businesses Dumping Workplace Diversity?

63

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

64

Unbossing: Can We Work Without Managers?

65

A Four Day Week: Less Work for More People?

66

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

67

Networking: Will It Actually Help Me Get a Job?

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

Ideas: How To Turn Your Dreams Into Business Reality

75

Marketing: How Effective Is Fear In Advertising?

76

Google: The Couple That Took On The Tech Giant

77

Evacuation: How to Rescue a Business From a War Zone

78

Debt: Do Collectors Deserve Their Bad Reputation?

79

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

80

New Tech: How Smart Is the Smart Energy System?

81

The Bottom Line (unofficial) Business Awards

82

The business of private schools

83

Being the new broom

84

The Business of Dying

85

Is copyright going wrong?

86

Is work getting more intense?

87

Hype

88

Electric Cars: Made in China?

89

Dragon's Den's Duncan Bannatyne

90

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

91

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: The Depop Story

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

In the eye of a crisis

96

Rethinking retirement

97

Where's the life in nightlife?

98

Navigating the Say-Do Gap

99

Feedback

100

Meat

101

Many unhappy returns

102

Bringing your 'whole self' to work

103

Meetings

104

Blockbuster drugs

105

The Age of the Train?

106

In denial

107

Rebranding

108

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis

109

Tradespeople

110

Back to the office

111

Does Funny Sell?

112

What next for water?

113

Business on 'the box'

114

Pre-loved

115

Dame Sharon White

116

Managing millennials (and Gen Z)

117

Flying Circus?

118

Are supermarkets profiteering?

119

Business Books

120

How to Hire

121

Powered by AI

122

Running Rolls Royce

123

Podcasting

124

The French correction?

125

Too much choice?

126

How Strikes Come to an End

127

Opportunists and Optimists

128

Turning Passion into Profit

129

A new era for the housing market?

130

The business of being a GP

131

Dealing in Defence

132

Changing Tack

133

Has Britain stopped working?

134

Excess Profits, Windfall Taxes and Incentives

135

Little Boxes?

136

Russian Exodus

137

Woke or Broke?

138

'Sorry, all our agents are busy right now'

139

Employment Tribunals

140

How to run a petrol station

141

Online Reviews

142

The price of bread

143

Business and Energy

144

Levelling Up

145

Changing China

146

Russia and the global economy

147

Buy Now, Pay Later

148

Alcohol-free drinks

149

The Price Shock

150

Your childhood in the workplace

151

Conflict at Work

152

Class in the workplace

153

The Lottery Business

154

The Quick Commerce Economy

155

Carbon Capture

156

Hybrid working

157

Labour shortages and the new model economy

158

Clinical Trials

159

Carbon labelling

160

Rolling out electric vehicles

161

The Purple Pound

162

The Future of Cruises

163

Sound of the suburbs

164

Ramping up capacity

165

The future of money

166

Billionaires

167

Hydrogen future

168

How to set up an EU subsidiary.

169

The Satellite Business

170

The Reddit Revolutionaries

171

Net Zero in the house

172

The Covid Hangover

173

Return to Brexit

174

Competence

175

Sector Shutdown

176

Commercial Property Wars

177

Bolton Business

178

COVID-19 and the gig economy

179

Cybersecurity

180

The economy - winter is coming

181

WPP boss Karen Blackett on obstacles to diversity in the workplace

182

How to build a racially diverse business

183

Transport after the pandemic

184

How we work now - lessons from lockdown

185

Can science save the economy?

186

Post-pandemic resilience

187

Consumer habits after lockdown

188

China

189

Saving Companies

190

Business hype

191

Coronavirus and business

192

The working week

193

Couples in Business

194

Dismissing staff

195

Business Gurus

196

Managing Conflict

197

Insolvency

198

Plant-based foods

199

Cryptocurrencies

200

The Future of Commercial Aviation

201

Lessons of Theranos

202

The investment industry - luck or judgement?

203

The discounters

204

Pivoting

205

Commerce and Crime

206

The Fitness Industry

207

The Last Mile

208

Anti-Biotic Resistance

209

Planning for uncertainty

210

Feedback frenzy

211

Internships

212

The personalisation revolution

213

Magazines

214

Are auditors fit for purpose?

215

Behavioural science in the workplace

216

University Businesses

217

The Internet of Things

218

Business in the era of #MeToo

219

Super-premium drinks

220

The Experience Economy

221

Plastics

222

Shortages

223

Rewriting the rules of Business

224

The Festival Business

225

Advertising

226

How does the commodities business work?

227

Why do companies do bad things?

228

Should CEOs have term limits?

229

Franchising

230

Is any company ever invulnerable?

231

Co-working Spaces

232

Will 5G revolutionise our lives?

233

Teenage Business Entrepreneurs

234

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

235

Do corporate headquarters still matter?

236

Is strategy necessary for success?

237

The Ethics of Business

238

Who Owns British Companies?

239

Turning Tables

240

The Shock of the New

241

How to Build a Bridge

242

Sir Terry Leahy

243

Department Stores

244

Foreign Investment in the UK

245

Pets Mean Pounds

246

Agents

247

Is there a business case for having a diverse workforce?

248

Shake-up in the skies

249

Batteries

250

There's no business like show business

251

Cost cutting and business transformation

252

One Company, Many Brands

253

Land - the mother of all monopolies

254

When Robots Take our Jobs

255

Corporate Espionage

256

The Future of Farming

257

The Bottom Line: Can We Trust Big Business?

258

Britain's nuclear future

259

Migrant Entrepreneurs

260

Fintech

261

The Secrets of Fixing a Price

262

How does stuff get to us?

263

The UK Space Industry

264

Managing Workplace Relationships

265

The Challenges of Running a Charity

266

Care Homes

267

Negotiating a Trade Deal

268

17/11/2016

269

The Future of the Car Industry

270

The Youth Market

271

Selling Corporate Baby

272

Activist Investors

273

Careers without College

274

Brexit: What Next?

275

Theresanomics

276

How to Build an Olympics

277

Brave or Naive?

278

The Price of Life

279

Life after Brexit

280

How to Negotiate

281

The Finance of Films

282

Old Dog, New Tricks

283

Profit or plunder?

284

EU Referendum

285

Life after a Blockbuster

286

Lonely at the Top?

287

Horse Racing

288

Tax Avoidance

289

Now We Are Ten

290

Data Privacy

291

Customer Service

292

Renewable Energy

293

Managing the Boardroom

294

The Northern Powerhouse

295

Breaking the Mould

296

Financial Engineering

297

Fast Fashion

298

Sponsorship

299

Going Public

300

Crisis at VW: A Bottom Line Special

301

Art and the Business of Taste

302

Supermarkets

303

Entrepreneurs and Education

304

Newspapers - to pay or not to pay?

305

Newspapers - to pay or not to pay?

306

Burger Battles

307

Angel Investors

308

Outsourcing

309

Corruption

310

Failure

311

Productivity

312

Corporate Scandal

313

Football's Billions

314

Going Global

315

Whatever Happened To?

316

Waiting in Line: The Business of Queuing

317

Inventors

318

Gold

319

Trading Places

320

The Price of Time

321

Upside-down Management

322

Family Rivals

323

Live Long and Prosper

324

Wearable Technology

325

Flash Sales

326

TripAdvisor Etc

327

Celebrities and Fans

328

The Saviour Returns

329

Recalls

330

Location, Disruption, Location

331

Second-Hand Trade

332

Mental Health

333

Single Product Companies

334

The Muslim Pound

335

Sex and Drugs

336

Bitcoin

337

Cyber Security

338

Serving the Super-Rich

339

Energy Upstarts

340

Transformation

341

Chocolate

342

Self-Improvement

343

Life After CEO

344

TV Formats

345

MBAs

346

The Sharing Economy

347

Design

348

Shipping

349

Planning for the Future

350

Deals

351

Who's the Boss?

352

Digital Marketplaces

353

The Business of War

354

Big Data

355

Investor Relations

356

Water

357

Futurology for Business

358

Managing in a Crisis

359

Start-ups

360

Food

361

Travel

362

Recruitment

363

The App Industry

364

The Education Business

365

21/03/2013

366

Turnarounds

367

Doing Business with Governments

368

Retail

369

Business in Africa

370

Alternative Finance

371

Books

372

Gambling

373

Family Firms

374

Planet New

375

Financial Services

376

Pricing

377

The World of Sport

378

Overcrowded markets

379

Quality

380

Boardroom battles

381

Products

382

20/09/2012

383

12/07/2012

384

05/07/2012

385

28/06/2012

386

21/06/2012

387

14/06/2012

388

07/06/2012

389

31/05/2012

390

Ruthlessness

391

22/03/2012

392

Leadership

393

Cock-ups and Conspiracies

394

Reinvention

395

Selling Expertise

396

Young Entrepreneurs

397

Big Egos

398

Automotive

399

Capitalism

400

Ambition

401

Business Bonds

402

Special Relationship

403

Product Proliferation

404

Producers or Parasites?

405

Marketing and Mess

406

Startups and Mistakes

407

McDonald's and New Tech

408

Economy and Rumours

409

Limits of Automation

410

Profits and Pitfalls

411

The Future of the Web

412

Keeping Score

413

Contacts and Contracts

414

Raw Materials

415

Is Greed is Good?

416

Fashion

417

Major Disaster Plans

418

Slow Growth

419

Business Time

420

Consumer Research

421

19/02/2011

422

10/02/2011

423

03/02/2011

424

27/01/2011

425

18/11/2010

426

11/11/2010

427

04/11/2010

428

28/10/2010

429

21/10/2010

430

14/10/2010

431

07/10/2010

432

30/09/2010

433

23/09/2010