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When lockdown arrived in March it sunk the UK economy. The message was clear: Stay home. And people did just that; there was a dramatic shift to either working from home or shutting down businesses entirely. For a couple of weeks pretty much the only place you could go was the supermarket, followed a little while later by the opportunity to head to B&Q to queue for an hour and try to do a click and collect. Now a second lockdown has arrived for England and the message is once again stay home, but things are very different this time: considerably more remains open. As England’s lockdown arrived, Wales and Northern Ireland were already in some form of lockdown and Scotland is running its own tight tiers system. Yet, while rules vary across the nations, more businesses remain open, Britain has got used to working from home, and industries that can’t do that are permitted to keep going. So, what happens now to the economy? How bad will the hit be? And is it just the hospitality sector and leisure sector that will be hammered this time round? On this week’s podcast, Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert look at the economic effects of Lockdown 2 and how things could be better or worse. Meanwhile, the Bank of England responded to the lockdown by keep rates in positive territory, but pumping another £150billion into the financial system through quantitative easing. More QE has been done since March that in all the years after the financial crisis: what does this mean for the economy and normal people? Also on this week’s podcast: is it time to call the end of the property mini-boom, why are some of the self-employed still being left out while furlough is extended – and should Simon bother to try and get his Ryanair flight money back in vouchers?

With cinemas closing once more, James Cameron-Wilson looks at the last box office chart for some time. He managed to get to see two new films to review, The Burnt Orange Heresy with Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger and British film Philophobia. For home streaming, he recommends Sasha Baron-Cohen's Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, spearing the state of contemporary America.

Steve Caplin marvels at a new Saatchi Gallery exhibition which you can tour without leaving home. He highlights Amazon's disastrously translated Swedish launch, looks at the app that can tell if you have Covid-19 from your cough, is fascinated by diamonds made from the sky and reports on a patient whose leg was treated at a different hospital than hers. He was hugely impressed by the new Oculus Quest 2, bringing realistic VR gaming into the home.

Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University looks at the US presidential election and asks what it means both for America and the rest of the world. With Sir Keir Starmer suspending former leader Jeremy Corbyn, is the Labour Party about to engage in civil war? And as the second wave lockdown begins, he asks if the government has adopted the right strategy.

Helal Miah of The Share Centre looks at recent news from Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, AstraZeneca and Associated British Foods, all affected in different ways by the pandemic. He looks ahead to what might be expected from Burberry, B&M and house builders Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey.

Saving, spending, planning — you've got money questions and we've got answers. Every week host Alison Southwick and personal finance expert Robert Brokamp challenge the conventional wisdom on life's biggest financial issues to reveal what you really need to know to make smart money moves. In this week's show, Dr. Megan McCoy joins the team to discuss the feelings behind our finances. And the father of the “4% rule” suggests the number could be higher.

In this episode Adam works with a lady that wanted to lose weight, but that was willing to do more for others than she was for herself. Adam uses the metaphor of an inner child to help her change the relationship she has with herself. Adam also uses an approach to enable her to change her old belief about not being good enough to a more useful and empowering belief. This will be a useful session for anyone that wants a better relationship with the unconscious mind and to have beliefs that are supportive of whatever goals you may wish to achieve.

Adam Cox speaks to global business growth expert, Domingo Silvas. Domingo shares valuable insight on how to increase revenue and profit in a growing business; with lots of tips and advice for anyone with a business that wants to grow, scale, or even sell.

The Coronavirus pandemic has brought about a huge shift in the way we all live our daily lives – not least the fact that since March of this year, whoever has been able to has been working remotely. But what does this mean for the role of the physical office as we know it? Recorded just before the government’s latest announcement of a second lockdown in England (but still extremely pertinent), Vicky Sayers is joined by Brandon Hollihan: co-founder of property management company, Castleforge Partners. He shares his experience of working from home and advocates for the importance of the office within business culture.

New research conducted by SHY Aviation reveals the extent of concern UK travellers have for flying commercial. 57% would be very worried about catching Covid-19 on a plane journey, with an additional 29% unwilling to fly until a vaccine is found. With over half of Brits unwilling to travel, could hiring a private jet, formally reserved for the rich and famous, be the way forward? Adam Cox is joined by chairman and founder of SHY Aviation, Giles Vickers-Jones.