The sad story of how one ambitious, but reckless, young executive brought down one of the most respected and oldest merchant banks in the City of London. 

The Bumper Book of Great English Stories

Great business stories 2: Barings Bank and Nick Leeson

The story of the creation of the social media giant, Instagram, and why it was acquired by Facebook for what seemed at the time like a ridiculously large sum of money. 

Great Business Stories 1: Why did Facebook buy Instagram

My reading of a classic English ghost story written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1836. As the story is long, this podcast is made in two parts. In this part, a young doctor is visited by a mysterious woman whose face is covered by a black veil and who makes of the doctor a strange and disturbing request. 