BBC Business Podcasts I have known and loved

For those interested in getting a business briefing on your iPod on the way to work, can I recommend these three lovely programmes from BBC radio ...

1. Wake Up To Money (first broadcast on Radio Five Live on weekdays @ 5:30am) - Presented by Mickey Clarke and Andrew Verity, 'Wake up to Money' provides an ideal start to the day for the business news junkie. Available to download onto your iPod soon after 6am each morning, "the show gives managers, small business owners, investors and anybody else who is interested in business a briefing on the working day ahead".

2. In Business (first broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursdays @ 8:30pm) - Hosted by Peter Day, 'In Business' tries "to make ear-grabbing programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers. In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride."

3. The Bottom Line (first broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturdays @ 5:30pm) - Started a new run yesterday with a piece on Toyota and Lean Production, 'The Bottom Line' uses a panel format tand promises to "cut through the confusion of modern life to find out what's really important to consumers and businesses: the gimmicks, the people, the products - and the relationships."

Each programme is currently only available for a 7 day period after broadcast and there is even the possibility that the BBC will pull their download service after the trial finishes. Boo on both counts.

Comments

[Victor Houghton]

The BBC are infuriating, aren't they? I've been regularly feeding myself with some of their podcasts and am baffled as to why they don't archive the damned things. That "trial" message has been on their site for a long time though.
Incidentally, I use the "Juice" podcast reader to make sure I catch all my regular progs - this ensures that I don't miss a podcast after it expires.