Share Sounds. presented by Juliette Foster

This is a brand new edition of The Apprentice Investor. Regular listeners to the programme will know that our Apprentices are five members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. They're allowed a minimum of eight stocks from different sectors which they've been buying and selling through the Share Centre. Our Apprentices today are Matt Cox and Olivia Demetriades - and giving his verdict on their efforts is Share Radio's senior analyst, Ed Bowsher. Find past episodes on The Apprentice Investor audioBoom page: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-apprenticeinvestor Want to start investing yourself? Check out our other shows to help you get to grips with the world of finance: The Investment Trust Show: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-investmenttrustshow Crowdfunders: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-crowdfunders Serious Money with Claer Barrett: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-seriousmoney

This is a brand new edition of The Apprentice Investor. Regular listeners to the programme will know that our Apprentices are five members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. They're allowed a minimum of eight stocks from different sectors which they've been buying and selling through the Share Centre. Our Apprentices today are Alexi and Valsa - and giving his verdict on their efforts is Share Radio's senior analyst, Ed Bowsher. Find past episodes on The Apprentice Investor audioBoom page: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-apprenticeinvestor

This is The Business of Sport with Share Radio's Michael Considine. Each week he provides you with the inside track on the world of sport. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The best for Manchester City F.C. with the announcement of a profit of over £20m last season, giving record revenues of around £398m. Kieran Drake of Liverpool University joined Michael to discuss the eye-watering figures. But the worst for Coventry City where trouble brews. Fans this weekend are holding a day of action in protest at the current owners of the club. Jan Mokryzcki of the Coventry City supporters group Sky Blue Trust will lay out the issues. And Share Radio's Joe Aldridge will have Extra Time. Enjoyed this episode? Find more at: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-businessofsport

This is The Business of Sport with Share Radio's Michael Considine. Each week he provides you with the inside track on the world of sport. This episode, Michael gets reaction to the news that Chelsea football club have announced a £60m deal with Nike. He'll be joined be City AM's Joe Hall for his take. Michael will also be speaking to Dominic Sacco from the British eSports Association about the rise of online gaming and how some football clubs are using it to boost their appeal with a younger audience. And Joe Aldridge will have Extra Time. Enjoyed this episode? Find more at: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-businessofsport

Storyteller and financial journalist Chris Bishop speaks to Share Radio's Alex Clark to take you across the continent of Africa from his desk in Johannesburg. On today's programme: Pravin Gordhan prepares to deliver his mid-term budget for South Africa under the shadow of court summons. If the possibility of fraud charges for a Finance Minister weren't enough, the African National Congress elites are also facing resignation calls from the ruling party's Chief Whip. Also on the show: Chris and Alex return to the Congo's constitutional crisis. And Chris tells the story of South Africa's illegal gold miners. For more stories from Chris, check out last week’s episode: https://audioboom.com/posts/5172593-conversations-from-africa-gordhan-faces-fraud-charges

This is My Portfolio with Lord Lee, our weekly look at investment decisions from the perspective of both the investor and the invested side by side. As ever, our investor is weekly FT columnist Lord John Lee. He is also author of the book 'How to Make a Million Slowly: My Guiding Principles from a Lifetime of Successful Investing'. This week, our invested is Andrew Jacobs, Chief Executive Officer of Lok'nStore - a company Lord Lee has invested in. He joined Lord Lee and Share Radio's Steve Clarke in the studio.

Investment Perspectives teams up with the FT Money Editor Claer Barratt to talk Serious Money - the personal finance and investment highlights of her FT Money section. On this edition, Claer tackles the 10 things you need to know about inflation. For more of Claer’s personal finance musings, head over to the Serious Money audioBoom page: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-seriousmoney

Investment Perspectives teams up with the FT to talk ‘Serious Money’ - the personal finance and investment highlights of the FT Money section. Claer Barrett is usually with us, but this week her colleague Naomi Rovnick joined Share Radio's Michael Considine. They discussed an article she wrote with Share Radio regular Lindsay Cook about the price of loyalty. For more of Serious Money, head over to its audioBoom page: https://audioboom.com/channel/shareradio-seriousmoney

Helal Miah, Investment Research Analyst at the Share Centre, reviews this week's stock market activity with Share Radio's Juliette Foster. They take a look back at Burberry, the Pearson, Laird, and Reckitt Benckiser from this week, as well as looking ahead to BT, GSK, Whitbread and Lloyds.

Ian Forrest, Investment Research Analyst at the Share Centre, reviews this week's stock market activity with Share Radio's Steve Clarke. They take a look back at Tesco & Unilever, the Lloyds/Pure Gym IPO, and Marstons from this week, as well as looking ahead to InterContinental, Burberry, and Reckitt Benckiser.