Hi, I'm Una Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles.

It tells the story of how my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others, were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood.

Hollywood Exiles from CBC Podcasts and the BBC World Service. Find it wherever you get your podcasts.

Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. Today, the controversial

role of private consulting firms in how the world is governed. Is this a good thing?

Civil servants have grown to be increasingly

insecure and risk-averse. They've been told not to screw up, right? And the problem is the role

of the consulting industry and benefiting, making a hell of a lot of money from this kind of

empty and risk-averse government show. Yes, today on the show, a leading economist,

let's rip on the consultancies,

and the governments that she says are becoming way too dependent on them.

That's Business Daily from the BBC.

Now switch on the news these days, wherever you are in the world, and you may find yourself hearing these sorts of headlines.

Auditors are in the spotlight at the moment following the collapse of Carillion and other accounting scandals, while the industry watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council, is under far as...

One of the world's most storied and respected management consulting firms is finding itself in the subject of critical media scrutiny.

McKinsey has faced a slew of negative press over the past year from troubles in South Africa,

potentially profiting on the outcome of Puerto Rico's debt crisis, taking heat for its work with Saudi Arabia.

One point the firm was...

Please have raided the office of accounting firm Delo, Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur today,

believed to be in relation to the one...

As you can hear, in the last few years, there have been a number of scandals associated with

the so-called Big Four consulting firms, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and McKinsey.

...