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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Economic data, Tesco, BT, Aveva & Rolls-Royce

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Economic data, Tesco, BT, Aveva & Rolls-Royce
Ian Forrest of The Share Centre discusses the recent spate of economic data. He looks at widely-differing news in the past few days from Tesco, BT, Aveva and Rolls-Royce. And he looks ahead, suggesting what we might expect when we hear from two housebuilders soon, Berkeley Group and Barratt Developments.
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Ian Forrest

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The Bigger Picture: The exam debacle, scrapping Public Health England & Kamala Harris

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The exam debacle, scrapping Public Health England & Kamala Harris
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the English exam debacle, asking why the government stuck to using the algorithm, despite being told it would not work. He gives his own marks to Education Minister Gavin Williamson. He looks at the scrapping of Public Health England and wonders if it is a wise move. And he looks across the Atlantic to Joe Biden's pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate.
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Mike Indian

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The Business of Film: Box office revival, Project Power & Five Graves to Cairo

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Box office revival, Project Power & Five Graves to Cairo
James Cameron-Wilson looks at a revival in the UK box office, where three films have managed to take six figure sums over the weekend. With Tenet due imminently to give cinemas a boost, he reviews the new Netflix blockbuster, Project Power, starring Jamie Foxx. He also looks back to a wartime classic, the early Billy Wilder film Five Graves to Cairo, out in a 4K Blu-Ray restoration that probably looks better than it did originally.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Emission-free aircraft and hands-free driving on motorways

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Emission-free aircraft and hands-free driving on motorways
Steve Caplin looks at Apple's soaring market cap, problems for Hauwei phone users, autonomous driving on UK motorways from next year, emission-free aircraft, a French cargo sailing galleon, biogas from cow dung, a laser-powered satellite to clear up space junk, a smartphone camera to detect type-2 diabetes, wireless power delivery, a liquid-filled guitar and a revival of the ZX Spectrum.
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Steve Caplin

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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: CRH, Persimmon, Schroders & gold

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: CRH, Persimmon, Schroders & gold
Graham Spooner of The Share Centre discusses recent announcements from CRH and Persimmon. He looks at the significance of Schroders' announcement that staff can work from home long-term and casts his eye over gold's recent performance. He looks ahead to what we might expect from three businesses hit by Covid, WPP, Rolls Royce and James Fisher.
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Graham Spooner

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Vein scanning and rage rooms

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Vein scanning and rage rooms
Share Radio's tech maven Steve Caplin shines his LED light on vein scanning, cars with predictive touch screens, rage rooms to rent, learning the piano through a role play game, a black dot absorbing 99.9% of light, a high-tech drill, how to put an end to leaves on the line and space rockets that can land themselves.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: The planning system overhaul and how e-businesses might boost the UK

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The planning system overhaul and how e-businesses might boost the UK
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University examines the Government's ideas for reforming Britain's planning system and suggests what the ramifications might be for solving the country's housing problems. As an economist shows that the UK economy has been bouncing back faster than over comparable countries, he looks at a think tank's ideas for introducing e-businesses as a way of giving Britain a post-Covid boost.
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Professor Tim Evans

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Business of Film: Flash Gordon at 40, Summerland and Endings, Beginnings

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The Business Of Film

Business of Film: Flash Gordon at 40, Summerland and Endings, Beginnings
James Cameron-Wilson talks to Simon Rose about the latest state of the UK box office, still becalmed ahead of the imminent release of Tenet. Together, they review the camp classic Flash Gordon which is out again for its 40th birthday. According to star Brian Blessed, it is the Queen's favourite film. James also reviews the Gemma Arterton film Summerland and the Shailene Woodley vehicle Endings, Beginnings.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Week That Was: Intercontinental Hotels, Prudential, Admiral & GVC

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was: Intercontinental Hotels, Prudential, Admiral & GVC
Helal Miah of The Share Centre looks at recent news from Intercontinental Hotels, Prudential, Admiral and GVC, all to some extent affected by the Covid pandemic. He looks ahead and gives an idea of what we might expect from Persimmon, Wood Group and BHP.
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Helal Miah

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The Bigger Picture: Obesity, planning reforms, local lockdowns and COVID border policy

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Obesity, planning reforms, local lockdowns and COVID border policy
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the Government's obesity strategy and its decision to target junk food advertising. He considers the significance of the announced planning reforms, whether local lockdowns are the right way forward and tries to make sense of the COVID border policy. He also looks at the prospects for the American Presidential Election with three months to go.
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Mike Indian

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