App Store

Google Play

DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst 

BBC World Service


The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.


Business Daily

The billionaire entrepreneur was sent to England at the age of 13 after getting into trouble in his native India. 

His family shared a house and his mother worked two jobs - something he said instilled in him the work ethic that led him to found his own hospitality businesses. 

An interest in air travel led him to London's Heathrow Airport, the 4th largest airport in the world. But it was on the ground, in the hotel industry, that he made his fortune, with the Arora Group.

We hear Surinder Arora's story, and his proposals for an alternative way to expand Heathrow's capacity.

Produced and presented by Will Bain

(Image: Surinder Arora. Credit: Surinder Arora)

Business Daily meets: Surinder Arora

You might have seen it online - social media influencers sharing their morning routines before work. Some start as early as 4 or 5 AM, turning those hours into their personal 5-to-9 before the traditional 9-to-5 grind. 

Michelle Obama, Bob Iger, and Apple CEO Tim Cook all claim to be up between 4 and 5 AM. 

There’s a “5 AM club”, inspired by the habits of very successful people. But does waking up that early actually make us better at work? 

And there’s even a whole industry of how to optimise your morning routine with supplements, journals and beauty products. In some cases, ice baths.

Against his better judgement, Business Daily's Matt Lines signed himself up to a week of 4 AM starts and met those for whom this is a way of life. 

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, our email address is businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Matt Lines

(Image: Matt Lines braving an ice bath as part of his research)

Does getting up early breed success?

It started with a man and a couch. Today, it’s an industry worth half a trillion dollars. 

The growing demand for therapy has made it a lucrative sector, with more and more digital mental health tools emerging. We ask if ethics can keep pace with change in the industry, and if the tech is serving those who need it the most?

Presented and produced by Laura Heighton-Ginns

(Picture: A home-based online therapist in virtual counseling session. Credit: Getty Images)

The rise of online therapy

We’re in Myanmar, a country that’s been ravaged by intense fighting for decades. But especially so since a military coup overthrew the elected government in 2021. 

We’re asking who and what is paying for each side’s war effort, and the military hardware, in what’s becoming an increasingly high-tech war.

If you'd like to get in touch with Business Daily, our email address is businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Ed Butler

(Picture: 3D printers are used to make parts of assault rifles produced in a clandestine weapon factory in Myanmar. Credit: Getty Images)

Who is financing Myanmar's civil war?

Turkey is facing a growing global problem: a declining birth rate. The number of babies being born reached an all-time low in 2024, of 1.48 children born per woman - that’s well below the replacement level of 2.10. 

The country's President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is calling the drop in fertility rate "a disaster" and has declared 2025 the "Year of the Family", promising incentives for parents. 

President Erdoğan is focusing on saving traditional family values, which he says are under threat, and is encouraging women to have at least three children. However, many in Turkey say it is the faltering economy - with inflation at around 35% - that is making it impossible to grow their families.

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, you can email us: businessdaily@bbc.co.uk
 
Presented and produced by Emily Wither with Zeynep Bilginsoy

(Picture: A mother holds her baby during a visit to Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Turkish Republic's Founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on National Sovereignty and Children's Day, a national holiday dedicated to children, in Ankara. Credit: Getty Images)

Turkey's 'Year of the Family'

From taking on the role of Kenya Airways' CEO in the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, to leading the company to profitability after years of financial turbulence, we hear the difficult decisions Allan Kilavuka has made during his time at the helm of one of Africa’s largest airlines - and the challenges that lie ahead for African aviation.

Allan Kilavuka also tells us about his time growing up in Western Kenya, and his unusual career path, including a stint as a marriage guidance counsellor. 

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, our email address is businessdaily@bbc.co.uk
 
Presenter: Ed Butler 
Producer: Amber Mehmood

(Picture: CEO of Kenya Airways, Allan Kilavuka. Credit: Getty Images)

Business Daily meets: Allan Kilavuka

We investigate smartphone thefts - which are rising in number in some major cities. What's the impact, and where are the phones going? And how can people protect themselves?

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, email us at businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Deborah Weitzmann

(Image: A phone is taken from a rucksack. Credit: Getty Images)

The global trade in stolen phones

As the continent aims to grow the sport, we hear from professional golfers who say they’re having to take on other jobs because there’s not enough money in the sport yet. 

Would a more organised competition structure, with more regular competitions, offer more opportunities to win prize money?

If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, email us at businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Zawadi Mudibo

(Image: Zambian professional golfer Dayne Moore. Credit: Getty Images)

Making a career from golf in Africa

Generation Z - people born in the mid-to-late 1990s up to the early 2010s - is reportedly the new driving force behind retail investing. We look at the areas they are investing in, and why financial influencers are not always what they seem. 

To get in touch with the programme, send us an email to businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Rick Kelsey

(Picture: Young male investor showing smart phone screen with stock market investment app. Credit: Getty Images)

Is Gen Z the most investment-savvy generation?

On the morning of the 28th of April, Spain lost electric power equivalent to that generated by ten nuclear plants, leaving the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal and parts of France, without electricity for up to 12 hours. We examine the cause of the blackout that affected millions of people, and the role of renewable energy.

If you'd like to email us, our address is businessdaily@bbc.co.uk

Presented and produced by Ashish Sharma

(Picture: People shop for groceries using their phone as a flashlight during the widespread power outage that struck Spain and Portugal in April 2025. Credit: Getty Images)

Spain's power blackout: what went wrong?

We look at the implications as the Latin American country gradually reduces from 45 hours.

In April 2023 politicians approved a law in congress saying that businesses need to move towards cutting their hours to help get a better work life balance for employees.

This reduction is happening gradually, and the working week is getting shorter by at least one hour per year, over a maximum of five years. 

We speak to workers and businesses in Chile about the impact - good and bad - that this is having.

Presenter: Jane Chambers
Technical production: Matthew Dempsey

(Image: A group of workers on lunchbreak in Santiago. Credit: Getty Images)

Chile's move to a 40 hour work week

Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Other podcasts you might like ...