The Business podcast

Phillip Blond, Shiv Malik, Nils Pratley and Andrew Simms discuss the growing power of supermarkets; the windfall tax on energy companies in the North sea; and Portugal's bailout

The richest in society are pulling ever further from the rest in terms of income, but is the gap important? If so what can be done about it. Danny Dorling, Peter Saunders, Polly Toynbee and Max Wind-Cowie discuss the economics of inequality

High street shops are hoping for an Easter bounce but conditions are the worst for over a decade; the US has been warned its debt rating may be downgraded; plus we investigate a 'perfect storm' in the charity sector

Robert Cole, Tony Greenham, Jesse Norman and Heather Stewart join Aditya Chakrabortty to discuss the reforms they think should have been included in Sir John Vickers' Independent Commission for Banking report this week

Portugal looks set to follow Ireland and Greece in seeking rescue funds from the IMF and EU. We hear from experts including Joana Gorjao Henriques, Stephen Donnelly and Larry Elliott. Plus Barry Eichengreen on whether the US dollar can remain the world's top reserve currency

Polly Toynbee, Ian Brinkley and Clifford Singer discuss the role of trade unions in the debate on cuts, growth and unemployment; plus economist Diane Coyle discusses her influential new book The Economics of Enough

Larry Elliott, Martin Kettle, Polly Toynbee and host Tom Clark discuss the winners and losers in the budget announcement from chancellor George Osborne

Edward Glaeser, Jonathan Glancey and John Vidal discuss why more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and the economic and social forces behind this trend

Andrew Clark and Larry Elliott discuss the implications of an oil price spike; and Christopher Bones discusses his latest book The Cult of the Leader

Roman Frydman, David Tuckett and Phillip Inman join Heather Stewart to discuss the failure of mathematical models during the financial crisis and whether psychology has anything to teach a new generation of economists