中文名: BBC 每周商業
英文名: Business Weekly
資源格式: 壓縮包
發行日期: 2010年
地區: 英國
對白語言: 英語
文字語言: 英文
簡介:

你將得到一周中商業，經濟，工作崗位，技術和管理等方面的對話。適合一些對外國經濟對話類節目感興趣或想通過聽力提高下專業經濟類詞匯的人群 不知道此節目對BEC考試有沒有幫助 每周更新 此帖會隨之更新新一周的內容
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英文簡介：Everything you need to know from the world of work and money. The key interviews, reports and thoughts of the week. Presented by Lesley Curwen and Steve Evans this weekend round up of the best of Business Daily gives you the big thinkers and big names in just 30 minutes. Covering business, economics, workplace technology and management theory。
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Fri, 19 Mar 10：Trouble and strife
Duration:27 mins
Business Weekly gets gloomy this week. The troubles of the Spanish economy, the troubles of African corruption and the troubles of the Middle East. Except that the Palestinian stock market is booming. What's going on? A silver lining. Maybe its not so gloomy after all.
Fri, 26 Mar 10:China and Zimbabwe
Duration:27 mins
America is getting tough with China. It argues that Beijing is keeping its currency artificially low with the result that the rest of the world has higher unemployment. Steve Evans talks to C. Fred Bergsten, the director of the Petersen Institute for International Economics. Lesley Curwen talks to Jim Rogers, who used to be the partner of another legendary financier, George Soros. And a new property redistribution law in Zimbabwe: Is it fair? Is it economically wise? Plus, he wears a baseball cap sideways and low slung pants, the rapping economics Professor Dan Hamermesh, tells us how he entertains his young students with his end of term, version of a rap.
Papers, poetry and politics
Duration:27 mins
Words feature heavily in Business Weekly today. Google on how the wordsmiths in papers can survive. How we read words on-line differently from on paper. How poets read capitalism. How not to forget words. Plus: should a company be president of the United States?
Happiness, Money and Work
Duration:27 mins
Business Weekly reflects on money and happiness. We will present you with two cases: a train driver who's whistled through life with a smile; and Tiger Woods who gets perhaps a hundred million dollars a year for playing a game, and is far from happy. Plus an interview with China's top official in Africa.
China, Japan and Antarctica
Duration:28 mins
How close is China to a revaluation of its currency? The United States says its holding the rate with the dollar too low so China is exporting unemployment, but is Beijing's policy likely to change any time soon? And why are prices are falling in the Land of the Rising Sun? And why is there seemingly little urgency to really tackle deflation? Ken Cukier, the Japan business and finance correspondent for The Economist, explains why. And Stephanie Flanders reports from Ireland on the pain and recovery of the Celtic Tiger. Plus, meteorologist Tamsin Gray describes her working life in Antarctica. On the lighter side, she outlines the joy of washing hair in temperatures of minus 50C, and holding it upside down so it freezes in a shock of long icicles.
Cash, ash and balls
Duration:27 mins
We dwell on cash and ash this week. Toxic cash from Wall Street and volcanic ash from Iceland that forced a chief executive, Pedro Beitra, onto a bus. Perish the thought. Plus Spanish students and economist Luis Garicano on sky-high unemployment. And watch the birdie, in China. The unstoppable rise of golf.
Riots in the Age of Austerity?
Duration:28 mins
When does anger turn to riot? As governments tighten belts from Iceland to Greece, lessons from 200 years ago about when poverty erupts into violence. It's not when people are at their worst off. And who owns the picture on your tee-shirt? Copyright and the rights of photographers in the age of the web.
Uncertainty
Duration:27 mins
The theme of this week seemed to be uncertainty - uncertainty swirling around the markets in government debt, spooked by the trouble with Greece and other eurozone nations. And uncertainty in Britain as a result of the general election.
A Stimulating Stimulus?
Duration:27 mins
Is the stimulus doing its job of creating work? We report from California on how the money from Washington is being spent. Steve Evans visits a massive construction project near San Francisco. He talks to workers and managers, as well as the woman charged with making sure California's stimulus money is being spent properly. Plus, computer graphics that seem as real as life itself, and the tale of the multi-millionaire searching for a cure for his paralysis.
Advice for Greece
Duration:28 mins
Business Weekly has advice - advice to Greeks seeking gifts: get a Plan B. And surprising advice to Greece from Africa and Turkey. Plus advice to tech-minded girls who want to be engineers from three top female engineering executives who broke the glass ceiling.
Dreams and Nightmares
Duration:27 mins
In the programme: the man who tastes chocolate for a living. Is it a dream job? And the man who's trying to save the Euro. Is it a nightmare job? Plus two conundrums: has the generous shine gone off Apple? And how did a Penguin produce a Puffin - but fail to net a Potter?
West African Journey
Duration:30 mins
Stephen Evans travels through Africa on a bus studying the power of money. Is it a force for good or bad? We meet a tribal chief worried about Ghana's oil and a man aleady making a profit from it.
Engulfed in Trouble
Duration:27 mins
Lesley Curwen considers the nightmares of BP's embattled CEO with a former boss of Shell, and the joys of underwear with former Australian supermodel, Elle McPherson. Plus is Zimbabwe guilty of diamond smuggling? And Steve Evans gets sex tips from a Benin voodoo salesman.
CEO's Under Pressure
Duration:28 mins
Meet the man top CEO's turn to for sympathy. Plus, greenery in the White House: is President Obama going the environmental way of President Carter? And have workers in communist China learnt to strike for pay like their capitalist comrades?
Age Of Austerity
Duration:28 mins
The riches of Afghanistan and the poverty of governments. Who's winning the World Cup: Nike or Adidas? Plus, is America being racist in the different ways it treats the disaster in the Gulf and the disaster at Bhopal?
Borders without Barriers
Duration:27 mins
East Africa's trying to free up trade across its congested borders - but will it work? And Lesley Curwen is revving up on the grid to bring you the chairman of Ferrari, who says Europe's politicians are failing to deal with the euro crisis. Plus the British empire is gone, but is the Queens English at the peak of its global power ?
Product Placement
Duration:27 mins
When you see a product on the screen at the World Cup or a movie, does it make you buy that product? Plus Mick Jagger says there was a sweet spot in musical history when musicians made piles of money. They didn't before and they won't again.
China Re-invents Itself
Duration:27 mins
Chinese underground music, American financial reforms and a whopping dose of envy. Can envying your colleagues be a good motivator - or can it be destructive and even damage your company's bottom line?
The Old and the New
Duration:26 mins
Business Weekly considers the harshness of our new world - how todays cut- throat world of banking compares to gentler days, and how best to blend the two. We look at brash new forms of journalism out to persuade Net-savvy readers to keep on clicking. And there's the old forms - where you could spend a lifetime in one newsroom.
Cleaning up reputations
Duration:27 mins
Steve Evans looks back at a week of attempted clean-ups. BP are not just financing efforts to reduce the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, they're also trying to limit the damage to their tarnished brand - announcing the replacement of their company CEO Tony Haywood, after months of negative headlines. In Europe meanwhile governments are examining new rules to clean up the banking system.
It's all who you know
Duration:27 mins
We examine the modern world of business networks, from the school that created many of the globe's top business leaders, to the man who first taught us how to make friends and influence people. Plus there's online social networks, speed networking, and the real-life entrepreneurs who trawl the planet in search of new opportunities.
A glimpse of the future
Duration:28 mins
Mark Jacobson, professor of engineering at Stanford University, says renewable energy can power the world in 40 years' time. But Nathan Lewis, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, argues that more money should go in to nuclear power. A top Malaysian businessman, Muhammad Ali Hashim, calls for a business jihad. Plus televison analyst Anthony Rose on how we will be watching TV in the next decade. And Lucy Kellaway from the Financial Times on insulting why it is so easy to hate BP.
China's hidden bank loans
Duration:27 mins
Is China's economy still overheating? Should governments try to protect consumers against rises in food and fuel prices? Does private equity work? And are too many workers speaking from a script?
Muslim brands and talking cars
Duration:27 mins
Steve Evans talks to Muslim businessman, Rafi-uddin Shikoh, who is worried that so few firms from Muslim countries make it as top global brands. Professor Cliff Nass runs a laboratory in California working out how cars can get more driver-friendly - by starting to think for themselves. Are we too fearful of the new world of cyberspace and its viruses, worms and trojans waiting to insinuate themselves into our computers for purposes of vandalism or theft? Our regular commentator, Jeremy Wagstaff, thinks we might be over-reacting. Plus, should you breast feed in the office?
Double dip recession?
Duration:29 mins
Will a doublde dip recession in America really happen - or could slow growth feel just as bad as another recession? As US combat operations end in Iraq, we look at the power cuts still crippling the country seven years after the invasion. And getting bruised and battered in an extreme sailing race - all set up to make a commercial profit.
Austerity measures
Duration:27 mins
Two views of Europe - hard times in Latvia, and boom time in Germany. Plus, how easy is it to re-start or repair your career? We have advice on starting again from the lawyer who was at the centre of the shredding affair at Enron. And we meet the man who keeps on swapping jobs; and has gone from ballet dancer to banker.
Reining in the banks
Duration:27 mins
Irresponsible lending by banks has been fingered as being one of the main causes behind the Great Recession. This week central bankers, at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), agreed on new rules aimed at reining in commercial lenders. But will they work? Lesley Curwen speaks to Stephen Cecchetti, the Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the BIS. As the oil producers' group Opec marks its 50th birthday, Jonny Dymond speaks to its secretary general, Abdullah al-Badri, about whether it has been a force for good for consumers as well as producers. And if you are over the age of 30 you may remember the day when people were just 'people', rather than 'consumers' or 'customers'. What innocent days they seem. Our trend spotter, Peter York, says the rise of marketing has changed the way we speak about the world around us.
Crisis and opportunity
Duration:27 mins
Business Weekly looks at growth in Africa, food in Mexico, shipping in the Arctic and banks in Europe. From climate change to the tortilla riots: can crisis and opportunity go hand in hand?
After the storm
Duration:27 mins
The Irish government has made another effort to rescue the country's financial sector. Saving Anglo Irish Bank could cost Ireland nearly $70bn but the government says it has no choice. Jonny Dymond speaks to economist and author Michael O'Sullivan who says the country has taken a wrong turn. Germany is seen as being back on the path to prosperity, but, as it marks 20 years since reunification, young people from what was East Germany wonder what the new age has offered them. And Tanzania's former president, Benjamin Mkapa, says that there can be more investment in Africa if trade barriers between countries on the continent come down.
Hard Times & Migration
Duration:27 mins
Time to return home or seek a better life abroad? How high unemployment in the developed world is affecting migration. And, should farmland be freely bought and sold by investors, or should small farmers be protected? We hear both sides of the debate. Plus, how five year-olds in Britain are learning about business by selling breakfast to their classmates.
Digging Deep, Flying High
Duration:27 mins
After the dramatic rescue of the trapped Chilean miners, we ask Anthony Hodges of the International Council for Mining and Metals how the industry is tackling the safety of its workers. And, are we facing another financial crisis? Lesley Curwen talks to Lee Robinson of Trafalgar Asset Managers, a Hedge Fund manager, who has produced a book called 'The Gathering Storm'. Tensions have been hotting up between America and China about currency valuation, but how are other economies faring? Our Economic correspondent Andrew Walker spoke to Roberto Setubal, the Chief Executive of the bank Itaú Unibanco, about the soaring Brazilian real. And from the future to the past. In particular workplace habits of the past - when smoking, drinking and office sex scandals were the norm. Lucy Kellaway looks back with nostagia.
UK spending cuts, swearing at work
Duration:27 mins
We count the pennies as a curtain of austerity falls over Britain. Will radical cuts in public services smash the tender flower of economic growth? Can you put a price on a Kenyan rainforest, and does swearing at work upset your colleagues? Plus, the big idea from one of the world's great thinkers, Hernando de Soto.
America's middle classes
Duration:28 mins
They're angry and they're bitter - Business Weekly takes the temperature of America's middle classes. As the midterm elections approach are those who lost jobs and homes right to feel let down? And in the face of sluggish economic growth, will central bankers have to delve down into the bottom of their toolbox? Plus, why all of us ought to be deliriously happy at work ...
G20 Seoul
Duration:26 mins
Andrew Walker is in Seoul for the G20 meeting, where he has been investigating the danger of the currency spat leading to a full blown trade war. And he's been talking to businesses from Japan, Argentina and Denmark. Lesley Curwen is in London looking at the heady price of gold: can it rise much further? Plus, the view from China on currencies.
Rationality and Money
Duration:27 mins
Business Weekly explains why humans are willing to lose money, in order to win revenge. Has it had a role in the economic crisis? Plus, the millions of Chinese homes which are lying empty. And cracking Irish jokes from Kilkenny, where some of Ireland's best comedians took on the horror of their country's economic mess.
Bulgaria, Ireland and the Euro
Duration:27 mins
As storm clouds gather over Europe's indebted nations, we hear from Bulgaria's finance minister about how Europe has handled the crisis. And what does Ireland's bailout mean for the Eurozone? Plus the terrible human price being paid for the minerals in our mobile phones. And why do so many companies insist on speaking nonsensical business lingo?
The Euro in Crisis
Duration:27 mins
We ask if the Euro can survive the ongoing crisis in member countries. And how is Wikimedia funded? Its Executive Director explains all. Plus how microfinance is making life worse, not better, for many in Bangladesh. And a rare glimpse into business life in Burma.
Corruption,sexism and thrift
Duration:29 mins
Sexism:the stone age attitudes that stop women getting top jobs.Corruption:Is paying the odd business bribe a necessary evil?Thriftiness:the business culture of the flat pack furniture giant Ikda-how far would you go to save your boss money?Plus,the unstoppable rise of cycling-with men in lycra at the head of the pack.
Best Of All Possible Worlds
Duration:27 mins
Business Weekly has an air of optimism about it ... is there an upside to Ireland's downturn? Why is East Africa still backing a single currency despite the crisis in the Euro-zone? Plus why it's worth telling the bosses of even the biggest companies what you think of them.
Austere Festivities
Duration:27 mins
Who's the festive fellow who can save Europe's indebted economies from austerity? Are business schools to blame for bankers' bonus culture? And what can a country do if it is suddenly stripped of its most valuable asset - oil? Plus, we'll be testing the emotional spell checker and finding out what's wrong with the way we all manage our information.
Entrepreneurs & ethical gifts
Duration:27 mins
Can entrepreneurs boost the world economy in 2011? Also, how farmers in Malawi are trying new methods of growing food without the need for government subsidies. Plus one man's search for the goat he bought as a Christmas gift. And Chris Hogg discovers that China's gift-giving culture is creating 'festival slaves'.
The year ahead
Duration:27 mins
What's the future course of the world economy in 2010? Why are crippling working hours an essential part of China's economic miracle? Plus, the author who plans to float himself on the stock market as Me, Me, Me Plc.
The euro and consumer choices
Duration:27 mins
Is the game up for euro? A leading economist tells us several countries will have to abandon the currency in the next two years. And are we suffering from too much consumer choice - is it worse than too little? Plus: what is the connection between giant lizards and naked shortselling?
Inflation in China
Duration:27 mins
How worried should we be about inflation? We hear from economist Andy Xie who says it's a problem in China, and from the former British central banker David Blanchflower who says unemployment is a much greater threat. Plus Jim Rogers, former investment partner of George Soros, on why he's so optimistic about China. And following Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's return to Haiti, we hear how the world's most notorious dictators have managed their money. Are match-fixing scandals tarnishing the allure of Indian cricket for investors? And we speak to the United Nations Special Representative for business and human rights, John Ruggie, on new guidelines to protect workers and the environment from abuses by big companies.
Dr Doom and Davos
Duration:27 mins
What investment advice can Marc Faber, the economist known as Dr Doom, provide? We'll also hear from Chinese investor Victor Chu who has been in Davos for the World Economic Forum. Plus: the woman who left a secure job as a teacher, to risk it all sailing single-handed in the world's oceans.
Betting against Wall Street
Duration:27 mins
We hear from author Michael Lewis about the inside story of one of the biggest bets in history - against the US sub-prime market. Should you worry when your CEO starts winning awards? Plus: is the world about to start driving electric cars?
Ukraine and Germany
Duration:28 mins
Business Weekly speaks to the President of Ukraine, and asks if corruption reaches the government. Plus: Germany may have a successful economy, but why does it have so few women chief executives? Should a highflying woman marry - not another highflyer - but a supportive and unambitious husband instead?
Egyptian Economics
Duration:27 mins
Unemployment in Egypt: Mubarak has gone, but economic problems remain. We hear from our reporter in Cairo. Plus, is Hollywood doomed? What's the view of the man who discovered Martin Scorsese? Also, we find out how plant proteins could help feed the world. And the dilemma facing China as it struggles with inflation.
Is California broke?
Duration:27 mins
Is California facing bankruptcy? Business Daily visits the fabled golden State which has turned grey with gloom... Plus we hear from US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, on China's currency and global banking. The Chairman and Chief Executive of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, has been rated by the Financial Times as the world's top woman in business. She talks to us about how the rising oil price is affecting her company, and how she was influenced by her grandfather. And at London Fashion Week Vincent Dowd speaks to designers Christopher Raeburn and Yang Du, and Caroline Rush of the British Fashion Council.
Sewage, Bankruptcy and Strikes
Duration:27 mins
We look at one American county that's staring bankruptcy in the face - all because Wall Street banks helped it arrange financing for a sewer system. Plus: why has Calcutta become India's city of strikes? And we talk to the anti-capitalist rebel who became a business guru by selling handbags which creak.
A new oil shock?
Duration:27 mins
Could the nuclear disaster in Japan lead to another oil shock? We hear from Dr. Jeremy Leggett, Executive Chairman of Solar Century, and Dr. Manouchehr Takin, analyst at the Centre for Global Energy Studies. Plus hedge fund manager Jim Chanos on US states facing possible bankruptcy. And, the joys of working from home, in your pyjamas.