The Bottom Line
Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show with people at the top giving insight into what matters
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sz6t
- Description
- Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show with people at the top giving insight into what matters
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-27 19:10
- last episode published
- 2025-03-27 10:30
- publication frequency
- 13.73 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 387
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Business
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-27 |
Decisions That Made Me: Julian Metcalfe (Itsu and Pret A Manger) An early passion for the high street meant Julian Metcalfe was determined to get into retail from the get-go. He and his partner Sinclair Beecham founded Pret A Manger when he was just 26. In 2008 Pret was sold to a private equity firm, and Julian no l... |
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| 2025-03-20 |
Decisions That Made Me: Sonnaz Nooranvary (House of Sonnaz, upholsterer) Sonnaz Nooranvary thought she’d have to be a doctor or a lawyer to please her parents, but struggled academically thanks to a combination of dyslexia and ADHD. Everything changed when she spotted an advert for an upholstery apprenticeship. She dropped ... |
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| 2025-03-13 | When high street travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed in 2019, it triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation, with 150,000 holidaymakers needing to be brought home. Alan French was the Group Strategy and Technology director at the time and had to p... |
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| 2025-03-06 | How would you invest £100k? Do entrepreneurs have super-human levels of optimism? How can you keep ownership of a great idea? In a first for The Bottom Line, Evan Davis puts questions like these - sent in by listeners - to a panel of business experts.E... |
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| 2025-02-27 | Self-checkouts have become a staple in supermarkets, fast food chains and other shops, but now some companies are reconsidering their use. Evan Davis explores the technology's role in the retail landscape and asks whether we’ve reached peak self-checko... |
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| 2025-02-20 |
London's Stock Exchange: why aren't companies listing in Britain anymore? After a year in which a number of big companies decided to list in New York rather than the UK, Evan Davis asks what can be done to attract firms to the London Stock Exchange. With Julia Hoggett, CEO at the London Stock Exchange, Charles Hall, Head of... |
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| 2025-02-13 | With the success of the BBC programme The Repair Shop, Evan Davis examines the business opportunities of companies which offer to repair things from clothes through to electronics. Is it easier to try and fix something yourself or pay for it to be don... |
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| 2025-02-06 | Major US businesses have begun ditching or scaling back their diversity initiatives. Will UK firms be next? Evan Davis is joined by three guests who specialise on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes, as well as environmental and sustainabilit... |
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| 2025-01-30 |
Robots On the Doorstep: Is This The Future Of Food Delivery? Evan Davis talks to the Estonian Ahti Heinla, co-founder of robot delivery firm Starship Technologies, which is hoping to expand across the UK. Evan hears about Ahti's early life in Estonia, how he competed in a Nasa competition, the start of the del... |
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| 2025-01-23 | Can businesses operate without managers? It's an idea Amazon, Meta and Citigroup are exploring. Evan hears from the leaders of three companies who've already tried working that way, but with varying degrees of success.Guests: Chris May: Founder of Mayd... |
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