The Business podcast

Our expert panel discuss India's ambitions to become an economic superpower. What are its prospects?

Britain produces less than it consumes. Sir Alan Rudge, Sukhdev Johal, Greg McClymont and Heather Stewart discuss the future of British industry

In this week's programme: what can be done about tax avoidance? We hear from a panel of experts

Our expert panel discuss a grim week for the Treasury, in which Britain's economic growth went negative and its plans for growth were ridiculed by the CBI. Meanwhile political and industrial bigwigs meet in Davos at the annual summit of the World Economic Forum

The private finance initiative has enabled hundreds of schools and hospitals to be built since 1997. But as government spending is squeezed in every department, does PFI offer value for money?

As bankers get the go-ahead from government to pay out bonuses, Barclays boss Bob Diamond gets a grilling by the Treasury select committee. Plus we look at the future of offshore drilling after the release of the official report into last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill

In our last podcast of the year we hear from the author of Zombie Economics, John Quiggan. Plus the best of the rest of this year's interviews

As Britain's banks prepare to shell out £7bn to their staff, our expert panel debates whether bankers deserve their bonuses

Demonstrators against tax avoidance have disrupted shopping in some of Britain's biggest stores and students continue to campaign against the "marketisation" of higher education. Our expert panel discuss whether it will be enough to change policies

Economist George Magnus puts the case against the rise of China and our panel of experts discuss a rosy UK growth projection and the future of the euro

There are fears across Europe that a multibillion euro bailout will not be enough to contain the latest economic crisis. Our expert panel discusses how Ireland got into this precarious position – and which countries could be next

Digital strategist Josh Klein is our guest this week. He explains how employees can 'hack' their workplace in order to be more productive

Former Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower joins Larry Elliott and social psychologist Michael O'Malley to discuss the health of Britain's economy and the wisdom of bees

First it was tyres, then it was Google, then it was chicken... Is the ongoing tension on trade between China and the US just Washington trying to take the spotlight off its economic woes?

In this week's Guardian Business podcast, does the government really have a plausible plan for growth? Can Vince Cable get the City to think long-term? And how are global universities transforming higher education?