James Cameron Wilson looks at a UK cinema box office that has suddenly caught fire, with Mission Impossible: Fallout knocking Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! off the Number One slot. As well as discussing this coming Sunday's one-day 50th anniversary re-release of Mel Brooks' The Producers, James also looks at the home release of the Todd Haynes' film Wonderstruck
Guests: James Cameron Wilson
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Original Broadcast: Gadgets and Gizmos
Steve Caplin spills the beans on robot cockroaches and snakes that will help service jet engines, at an autonomous bus that can't leave its depot, at an oven that does 0-260 degrees in under a second, at clingfilm made from crab shells and at the video camera that starts filming10 seconds before you press the record button.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Want to keep up with the latest earnings updates from the States? Well join Chris Hill and the Motley Fool Radio Show team here on Share Radio, direct from Washington DC, for news, views and analysis of the US stocks that matter. In this week's show: Facebook plummets on slowing growth; Amazon rises on record profits; Chipotle serves up big earnings; Atlassian surrenders to Slack; And Spotify tries to produce sweet music for investors.
Guests: Chris Hill
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As the UK's MPs head off for their summer hols, political commentator Mike Indian looks at the latest Brexit developments including Justine Greening's call for a second referendum, the Lib Dems absence from a Commons vote and Jeremy Hunt's debut as Foreign Secretary. He also examines what the row about antisemitism and the Labour Party demonstrates about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and looks at what Boris Johnson has been up to since leaving the Foreign Office.
Guests: Mike Indian
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Steve Caplin looks at car locks preventing drunk driving, at a 3D printable gun, at Amazon's patent for fulfilment centre robots throwing objects to each other, at Uber fraud, the bluntly honest HiMirror, at the world's largest 3D printer which can make houses and at the Spanish submarines too heavy to float!
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
James Cameron-Wilson casts his eye over a revived UK box office, with the new Mamma Mia film storming into the No. 1 spot, pushing the highest grossing US animated film ever, Incredibles 2, into second place. With a Spitfire documentary producing an extraordinary per-screen average, James also looks at the DVD release of Filmworker, a highly-recommended documentary about Stanley Kubrick and his longstanding right-hand man.
Guests: James Cameron-Wilson
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Graham Spooner of The Share Centre discusses recent numbers from Shell and ITV and looks at the latest supermarket market share numbers. He also looks ahead to results forthcoming from Barclays and RBS as well as from Centrica and Taylor Wimpey.
Guests: Graham Spooner
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Want to keep up with the latest earnings updates from the States? Well join Chris Hill and the Motley Fool Radio Show team here on Share Radio, direct from Washington DC, for news, views and analysis of the US stocks that matter. In this week's show: Microsoft shares hit an all-time high thanks to strength in the company’s cloud business; Netflix falls on concerns over subscriber growth; American Express doesn’t get rewarded; And Skechers gets kicked around.
Guests: Chris Hill
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Ian Forrest of The Share Centre looks at recent news from Royal Mail, Unilever and Easyjet and ahead to forthcoming announcements from Vodafone, Diageo and BT.
Guests: Ian Forrest
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Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University looks at the way in which President Trump and Theresa May are singing from different economic hymn sheets, at some of the museums around Britain at which you can explore the country's economic and political history this summer and at the move in Cuba to embrace property rights.
Guests: Professor Tim Evans
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