Original Broadcast: The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors
Tim Price of Private Value Partners explains why he thinks technical analysis - particularly trend-following - may be a more useful discipline than fundamental analysis. He recounts the anecdote of the true-life counterparts of the film Trading Places, with so-called novice investors, called "turtles", taught an investment system, with many of them becoming hugely successful. He points out the downside of index investing and believes that the early warning of problems with the world's burgeoning debts may first be seen in the foreign exchange markets, which central banks are not big enough to control.
Guests: Tim Price
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
James Cameron-Wilson marvels at the encouraging box office news from the United States where Godzilla vs. Kong is top of the heap, despite streaming on TVs simultaneously. He reviews the movie, which features some big names as well as the giant titular stars. In the UK, it's only available online. James also reviews the Doug Liman sci-fi movie Chaos Walking, with Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley and the new Netflix film Run, starring Sarah Paulson.
Guests: James Cameron-Wilson
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Original Broadcast: Gadgets and Gizmos
Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses LG pulling out of smartphones, why lab-grown meat needs spinach as scaffolding, a sunlight-catching ball to enlighten basements, an Icelandic innovation for making online meetings more like the real thing, why bees are sniffing out Balkan landmines, a smart knee brace and how Japanese scientists have proven just how annoying texting pedestrians can be.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Original Broadcast: Gadgets and Gizmos
Steve Caplin looks at Volkswagen's bizarre April Fool's joke, how Uber users can now request electric, how wine tastes after a trip in space, the world's first lab-grown caviar being made in Devon, the robot self-portrait selling for $688,000, an antenna powered by 5G signals, an app mapping the world's radio stations, a gadget for sharpening disposable razor blades and what can be discerned by eye tracking.
Guests: steve caplin
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
James Cameron-Wilson on the encouraging signs of an appetite for cinema in the USA where people have been flocking to big-screen viewings of Tenet. He reviews The Mauritanian, a true story directed by Kevin Macdonald which did not pick up any Oscar nominations, Minari, an American-set film in the Korean language which got 6 nods and Sky's documentary Tina on Tina Turner.
Guests: James Cameron-Wilson
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Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the question of vaccine passports and asks whether we should be prepared to show documentary proof of a jab to be allowed to go to the pub. He wonders if Alex Salmond setting up the Alba party will boost Scottish nationalism or divide it. He discusses the recent Race and Ethnic Disparities Report. And he ponders the naivety of David Cameron, caught up in the type of lobbying effort he once decried.
Guests: Mike Indian
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Original Broadcast: The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors
Tim Price, director of Price Value Partners, looks at why benchmarking to stock market indices is a bad idea and why investors should think more about the preservation of capital than chasing the latest market fads. Tim discusses the surge of interest in cryptocurrencies, why gold is less rampant and why value investors, of which he is one, need considerable patience. Citing the ignominious debut of Deliveroo amongst other things, Tim senses the market may be on the point of a big change of sentiment.
Guests: Tim Price
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Original Broadcast: Gadgets and Gizmos
Share Radio's technology expert Steve Caplin lets us hear the first ever audio from Mars. He brings news of airless tyres developed from NASA tech, of a virtual Mars house sold for $0.5m, an invisible security keypad, robot lifeguards, a car using your phone as its dashboard, a foolproof Face ID system for phones, the archive of Douglas Adams's letters called - perhaps not surprisingly - 42 and the launch of clothes made from mushroom leather.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
Professor Tim Evans looks at the complexity of problems exacerbated by the bottleneck at the Suez Canal caused by the stuck container ship Ever Given. He discusses how the Eurozone economy is having to brace for a third wave lockdown and slowdown. He admires a Dutch experimental school, lamenting how strait-jacketed British school education has become. And he puzzled why companies in the UAE are helping Venezuela to avoid US oil sanctions.
Guests: Professor Tim Evans
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
James Cameron-Wilson reviews 19th-century drama Ammonite starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, expressing surprise Winslet has not received more awards attention. He looks at French thriller Sentinelle and the similarly-themed autobiographical drama Cherry, starring Tom Holland. And he finally gets to see and admire the 1953 French comedy Monsieur Hulot's Holiday with Jaques Tati.
Guests: James Cameron-Wilson
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