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Business Matters: Would you allow Apple to freeze your eggs? 15 Oct 14 Thu, 16 Oct 14 Colin Peacock at Radio New Zealand and Paddy Hirsch at our US sister programme, Marketplace, join Roger Hearing to discuss whether Apple's offer to freeze female em
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Business Matters: Fear stalks the stock markets 17 Oct 14 Fri, 17 Oct 14 Vicky Mohieddeen from Koryo Tours and Peter Morici from the University of Maryland in Washington joins Jon Bithrey to discuss a turbulent few days for stock markets around the w
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Business Matters: Race to develop Ebola vaccines 18 Oct 14 Sat, 18 Oct 14 As British drugs giant Glaxo Smith Kline admits it can't produce a vaccine to deal with the current ebola outbreak, we ask what incentives firms may need to tackle future threa
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Business Matters: UN criticises Detroit for water shutoff Tue, 21 Oct 14 The UN's special rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, tells us why the city of Detroit has contravened human rights by disconn
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Business Matters: Afghan Opium Exports Peak 22 Oct 14 Wed, 22 Oct 14 David Kuo from the Motley Fool website and Ken Vogel, reporter for Politico, join Roger Hearing to discuss the day's business stories. A US report finds that efforts to contain the
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Business Matters: Canada Shootings, Ottawa in Lockdown 23 Oct 14 Thu, 23 Oct 14 Rob Young is joined by Lily Kuo of Quartz website and by Ben Johnson host of Marketplace Tech to discuss the day's news. We hear from Canada where a gunman has been shot
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Business Matters: EU leaders agree climate change deal Fri, 24 Oct 14 Rob Young and guests investigative journalist and author Tim Shorrock and AP foreign correspondent Jean Lee discuss the day's news. In the early hours of Friday morning, EU leaders
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Business Matters: Row Over EU Membership Price 25 Oct 14 Sat, 25 Oct 14 We talk about the almighty row in Europe over how much countries should pay to be a member of the European Union. We've also got news of another battle - this one for bananas, as
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Business Matters: New Technology Vs Ebola 28 Oct 14 Tue, 28 Oct 14 As over ten thousand people are now known to have died from Ebola - we ask if new technology can help deal with the ebola outbreak. We also talk about the effects of an increasing glo
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Business Matters: Space Rocket Explodes On Launch 29 Oct 14 Wed, 29 Oct 14 The private space rocket Antares has exploded at lift-off in the US. We'll ask what this means for the growing commercialisation of space. Also, we'll hear why a truce in Euro
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Business Matters: Fed says farewell to QE 30 Oct 14 Thu, 30 Oct 14 The US Federal Reserve finally says farewell to its economic stimulus programme, quantitative easing. But after spending $3.5tr - we ask whether the US saved the global economy. Iraq'
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Business Matters: Europe gas deal 31 Oct 14 Fri, 31 Oct 14 A deal between Kiev and Moscow has been done to keep Ukraine and Europe warm this winter. What does the declaration by Apple's boss that he is gay tell us about global boardroom attitudes to
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Business Matters: Japan boosts QE at critical moment 1 Nov 14 Sat, 1 Nov 14 Japan's central bank announces a significant expansion of its monetary stimulus programme, vowing to pump even more money into the country's faltering economy. We ask whether
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Business Matters: One World Trade Center opens 04 Nov 14 Tue, 4 Nov 14 One World Trade Center opens for business on the site of the original twin towers. Andrew Breslau from the Alliance for Downtown New York tells us about the new building and how L
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Business Matters: US midterms special 5 Nov 14 Wed, 5 Nov 14 A special edition looking at the economic issues surrounding the US midterm elections. We're joined by Peter Morici, economist and business professor at the University of Maryland, and Ceci
