Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.

My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

And because the team has such a diverse

range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through

archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if

you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories

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This is BBC Radio 5 Live.

Wake up to Money, Bordroom Stories with Sean Farrington.

Hello and welcome to the latest boardroom stories podcast. Today we're in the offices of Sony Music Entertainment in London.

And I'm here to meet the boss Rob Stringer, who's with me now. Rob, whereabouts are we?

So we're in the reception of our UK office. And these are all the labels that we have in our label group, Columbia Records.

I ran at Columbia Records in America for 13 years.

That's 125 years old that label.

Ministry of Sound, very famous dance culture label.

We acquired that label two or three years ago.

Then you've got Epic Records.

Another big American label originally,

RCA, a very famous label with the dog and the gramophone nipper going back 80, 90 years.

Psycho Entertainment, which is obviously Simon Cowles, Company. And those are the compositor labels

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