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The World Today Weekend interview
BBC World Service – The World Today Weekend
Join the World Today Weekend each Saturday and Sunday morning for a breakfast news show with a difference.
Every programme one of our presenters is joined by two distinguished guests.
Politicians and diplomats, writers, journalists, scientists, philosophers and comedians have all been on our panel.
We dig behind the headlines to ask the questions that are missed in the daily rush to deadlines.
Whether it’s an important newsmaking interview, the latest insights from the worlds of business and sport, or a bit of music and poetry, we find a different way to bring you the weekend’s news.
In this programme, presenter Fergus Nichol discusses, among other things, the loss of the original Corinthian spirit in sport, internet privacy and China’s growing influence in Africa and across the world with Mihir Bose ; Kate Crawford, deputy director, Journalism and Media Research, University of New South Wales; and sports correspondent Seth Bennett.
Football’s still a cottage industry
Football needs to reform to become a real business
The Harry Rednapp case, whatever the final verdict, has illustrated what we all knew: for all the talk of football being a business, it is still essentially a cottage industry. It has not moved on from the early twentieth century world when it first came into prominence.
That football is big business can hardly be doubted. Look at the financial figures that UEFA has released about the profits and losses made by the clubs and the huge debts they have. In 2010, total revenues for top-flight clubs reached a record €12.8bn, but the increase in revenues was accompanied by record aggregate net losses of €1,641,000,000.
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The Week with George Galloway – interview
talkSPORT – The Week with George Galloway
This week George Galloway discusses short-staffed A&E departments, crimes of passion and smacking children.
Renowned sports journalist Mihir Bose joins George in the studio to talk about his new book ‘The Spirit of the Game: How Sport Made the Modern World’ while guests on the phone include the Sun’s Dr. Carol Cooper and former Republican senator John Leboutillier.
Click here to listen to the programme (Note: The interview with Mihir begins at 1:03:50)
Midori House interview
Monocle 24 Radio – Midori House
Midori House talks urban investment with the finance minister for Rio, visits the watch fair in Geneva and meets sports book author Mihir Bose.
Click here to listen again, or download the programme (Note: The interview with Mihir begins at 41:00)
Night Waves
Radio 3’s flagship arts and ideas programme, featuring discussions, debates, interviews and reviews with leading academics and artists.
Mihir discusses his new book, The Spirit of the Game with Anne McElvoy.
Click here to listen to the programme (Note: Section with Mihir starts at 0:25:30)
Other Business tagged articles
- Robert Elms Show - January 19, 2012
- Venkys find Blackburn a tougher egg to crack - December 21, 2011
- The gulf that separates the American and British sporting model has yet to be bridged - December 16, 2011
- Qatar leads Silverstone race - October 30, 2011
- Segregating fans has helped foster climate of hatred - September 29, 2011
- QPR’s new owner won’t splash the cash like Roman Abramovich - September 20, 2011
- The rise of celebrity culture is changing the face of our beautiful game - August 25, 2011
- How England bowled out India on a budget - August 22, 2011
- The Olympic super brands take over London - August 22, 2011
- The silence of the world’s football players in FIFA crisis is deafening - August 11, 2011
- Riots have raised security concerns about the Olympics - August 10, 2011
- India bats its way up the new world order - July 21, 2011
- Rock n Roll football show - May 17, 2011
- ‘Discrete events’ skew sport betting - February 1, 2011
- Lalit Modi Interview – Highlights - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – TV rights - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – Indian culture and the IPL - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – IPL in South Africa - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – Outcomes - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – Family favour claims - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – Match Fixing - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – In London - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – BCCI - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – Personal financial gain - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – External investigations - November 25, 2010
- Lalit Modi – Governance - November 25, 2010
- FIFA still runs football as if it were a cottage industry - November 2, 2010
- Fans treated as if they don’t count by dysfunctional football family - October 12, 2010
- Success is par for the course for Welsh billionaire who brought the Ryder Cup to Celtic Manor - October 1, 2010
- Fans must stop falling in love with rich men - September 30, 2010
- Football clubs tackle debts - September 6, 2010
- Indian summer: the twilight of British influence in India - July 27, 2010
- Business bonus? Or business as usual? - May 14, 2010
- Forget Olympics medals, think of the UK’s trade benefits - March 12, 2010
- Bursting into the World Market - July 1, 1998
- The covert world of American commerce - November 1, 1995
