Shop Floor with Nick Peters talking to Dom Jackman, co-founder of Escape the City, about the growing discontent among young professionals with life on the treadmill and how he and his team help them escape into a life of great fulfilment.
Guests: Dom Jackman
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Show Floor with Nick Peters talking to Andrew Berwick of the Access Project on their programme to mentor and tutor children from disadvantaged backgrounds to attain the grades and confidence they need to go to top universities. Also talking with Sam Crooks of Credit Suisse about the tutoring and mentoring he gives to ambitious young student to achieve better grades.
Guests: Andrew Berwick,Sam Crooks
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Nick Peters hits the Shop Floor this week to talk to Duncan Exley, Executive Director of the Equality Trust about the massive advantage children of well-off parents enjoy compared with children of equal ability from less advantaged backgrounds.
Guests: Duncan Exley
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This week Matthew Cook visits Charity Stars, a platform for celebrities and athletes to donate their goods, or time, that are then auctioned off with the proceeds raised going to the celebrity's charity of choice.
Guests: Robert Robinson
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Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging is a highly successful British technology firm which developed the world's first MRI scanner for injured or ill horses. The company has won two Queen's Awards for Enterprise and International Trade. It is now developing a revolutionary scanner to help vets diagnose and treat cats and dogs. Linda Lewis went to meet them.
Guests: Jos Belgrave,Nick Bolas,Steve Roberts,Jane Boswell
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The Bank of England Museum houses gold bars, bank notes and a whole host of exhibits charting the Bank's role at the heart of Britain's financial system stretching back over 300 years. Linda Lewis has been along to meet the curator Anna Spender and find out what's on offer to visitors.
Guests: Anna Spender
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Sue Dougan is joined in the studio by Lemn Sissay MBE, a poet, a writer, a uni chancellor and broadcaster, to talk about his early years, career and his musical influences along the way.
Guests: Lemn Sissay
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Sarah Pennells is joined in the studio by Tess Riley from the Guardian and former Streetbank, Jonathan Hampson, head of locations at Zipcar, and Jim Pickell, president of Home Exchange, to answer your questions about the sharing economy.
Guests: Tess Riley,Jonathan Hampson,Jim Pickell
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Original Broadcast: Your Money, Your Future
Sarah Pennells is joined by Dean Brauer from Go Henry, Julie Hutchison from Standard Life and Ingrid McCleave from The Family Bank to discuss children's bank accounts, savings accounts, ISAs and trust funds.
Guests: Dean Brauer,Julie Hutchison,Ingrid McCleave
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Sarah Pennells is joined by the Money Advice Service, Santander and A Mummy Too blogger to discuss back to school costs, what the biggest challenge is when buying for back to school, how to effectively plan for September and tips and tricks of saving money.
Guests: Nick Hill,Lara Lipsey,Emily Leary
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