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Business daily meets: Ida Tin

Business daily meets: Ida Tin

Ida Tin coined the term Femtech after she founded the period tracking app, Clue, which has since been downloaded more than 100 million times.

We hear how she managed to turn her idea into a business, how she went about funding it over her 10 year stint as CEO and how she sees it evolving as technology becomes more advanced.

Producer/Presenter: Hannah Mullane Photo: Ida Tin Credit: Ida Tin

China's rising youth unemployment: Part 2

China's rising youth unemployment: Part 2

The country is not just facing record-high levels of youth unemployment - more than 20% of 16-24 year olds in urban areas at the latest count.

It is also facing growing discontent among many young people about the type of work they can find, often involving long hours, no overtime pay, and insecure contracts.

It is prompting some to opt out of the rat race altogether. And many experts think the current problems aren't just prompted by the global slowdown. They're structural.

Even the government's economic advisors think it may be time for a new economic plan if China is to avoid years of stagnation.

That change could slow and painful though. Will Xi Jinping and the country's other Communist Party leaders go for it?

Produced and presented by Ed Butler.

(Image: College students choose jobs at a job fair for 2023 graduates in Huai 'an City, East China's Jiangsu Province. 01/07/23. Photo credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Image)

China's rising youth unemployment: Part 1

China's rising youth unemployment: Part 1

Is trouble brewing for the world’s second largest economy?

China’s exports are down, the property market’s creaking, and millions of young people - more than one in five - are officially classed as unemployed.

It's not just the lack of jobs, it's the quality of employment that's now on offer - much of it informal in sectors like hospitality or food delivery.

In the first of two programmes assessing the economic challenges, Ed Butler asks, what's gone wrong?

Produced and presented by Ed Butler.

(Image: A job-seeker look for employment at a job fair for college graduates in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province in Feb 2023. Credit: ZHONG NAN / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Business Daily meets: The rum distillers

Business Daily meets: The rum distillers

Paul and Jacine Rutasikwa tell us how they turned a side hustle into a full-time business.

In 2017 they moved their family from London to Scotland to set up their distillery, creating an African-Scottish business.

Presenter/producer Dougal Shaw.

(Image: Paul and Jacine Rutasikwa. Credit: BBC)

Business Daily meets: Mattel's CEO

Business Daily meets: Mattel's CEO

Ynon Kreiz explains how they transformed Barbie, the well-loved and sometimes controversial doll, into a movie.

The boss of one of the world's biggest toy companies also talks about the need to bring more diversity into the Barbie brand, and expand products beyond the toy aisles.

Presenter/producer: Dougal Shaw

(Image: Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken in a still from the movie. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

Business Daily meets: Sir Robin Millar

Business Daily meets: Sir Robin Millar

We meet one of the UKs most successful record producers, who was behind hits such as Smooth Operator.

He talks to Dougal Shaw about his career so far, his record label, and the future of music.

Sir Robin Millar is blind - his sight had totally gone by his mid-thirties - and he talks about the impact that has had on him.

And he talks about AI in music.

Producer/presenter: Dougal Shaw

Business Daily meets: Kelly Hoppen

Business Daily meets: Kelly Hoppen

We meet one of the world's leading interior designers.

Kelly Hoppen finds design solutions for celebrities including the Beckhams, but also works with luxury brands and businesses too.

And she is enthusiastic about people achieving good design on a budget. She talks about growing up in South Africa, and explains how music inspires her work.

Producer/presenter Dougal Shaw.

(Image: Kelly Hoppen. Credit: BBC)

Business Daily meets: The founders of Seatfrog

Business Daily meets: The founders of Seatfrog

Iain Griffin and Dirk Stewart formed their company after a mutual need for more leg room inspired a brainwave.

They created the Seatfrog app for train travel, which is disrupting the industry.

Dougal Shaw meets them (on a train), and finds out why their business changed from air travel to trains, and moved from Sydney to London.

Presenter/producer: Dougal Shaw

(Image: Iain Griffin and Dirk Stewart. Credit: BBC)

The price for Mexican heritage

The price for Mexican heritage

We look into Mexico’s drive to get historical artefacts returned. Find out more about a famous quetzal feather crown believed to have been worn by the great Aztec emperor Moctezuma, it is currently in Austria and we hear from those who want to keep it there, and those campaigning for its return.

Presenter / producer: Beth Timmins Image: Moctezuma's headdress; Getty Images

Rebuilding Turkey after the earthquake

Rebuilding Turkey after the earthquake

On Sunday 6 August 2023 it will be six months since the devastating event which killed more than 50,000 people, injured tens of thousands more, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

For Business Daily, Victoria Craig travels to the worst affected region of Hatay. When President Erdoğan visited the disaster area back in February, he vowed to rebuild within a year, so can he keep that promise?

Victoria speaks to residents who are still waiting to hear about permanent homes.

And we ask whether new homes will be safe enough to survive another natural disaster?

Presenter: Victoria Craig Producer: Gonca Tokyol

(Image: Reconstruction in Hatay)

Is it possible to grow food on the Moon?

Is it possible to grow food on the Moon?

Space agencies and billionaire investors plan to have people living on the Moon or Mars. But those lunar and martian residents will have to grow their own food to survive.

Find out how biologists from Florida, Norway and the Netherlands are experimenting to grow crops in regolith, the kind of soil found on the Moon and Mars. It could be very profitable enterprise.

Presenter / producer: Russell Padmore Image: Moon and crops; Credit: Getty Images

Working at altitude

Working at altitude

From Tibet to the Andes to the highlands of Ethiopia, around 150 million people around the world work at high altitude. Many were born there, but in a globalized world of mass migration, many weren’t, and are toiling in environments that their bodies maybe aren’t accustomed to.

What does that mean for their health and for the companies that employ them? We go to a high altitude copper mine in the Chilean Andes and talk to doctors about the potential risks of working on top of the world.

Producer / presenter: Gideon Long

(Image: A mine high in the Andes. Credit: Getty Images)

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