Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Excitement and hope this week as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said it believed that its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective. On this edition of Business Weekly we’ll look at the logistical challenges of rolling it out. How will it be transported? Who will get access to it - and how much will it cost? Also at a high level climate change conference in London our correspondent chats to chief executives who say capitalism can help the planet - but will they put their money where their mouth is? Plus, what, if anything do parents owe their children? We have the intriguing story of the man who sued his parents because they couldn’t afford him. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Vishala Sri-Pathma.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring, |
| 0:19.8 | and thought-provoking stories you might have missed |
| 0:21.7 | from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello, this is Business Weekly and I'm Lucy Burton. Welcome to the show. They always said |
| 0:33.7 | that the science would save us. And this week, there does seem to be a glimmer of hope |
| 0:38.7 | in the global fight against COVID-19. The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in conjunction with the |
| 0:44.1 | German company Biointech have announced that their vaccine is 90% effective. This is the news |
| 0:49.9 | that the world has been waiting for. But there are still hurdles to be overcome. And in the next |
| 0:55.6 | half hour, we'll be examining some of them. Also on the show, we'll be asking how the planet |
| 1:00.1 | will now rise to the challenge of climate change. Finance companies say they hold the key to success. |
| 1:06.2 | We'll hear how so-called green finance could work. And it might have been mentioned somewhere, but America |
| 1:12.5 | has a new president-elect, and Joe Biden will be the oldest president in US history. But is his |
| 1:19.4 | age an asset or a liability? We'll be talking about age in the workplace. First, though, the market |
| 1:26.4 | soared and there was cautious optimism from politicians |
| 1:29.8 | in the media as the first company in the race to produce a viable COVID vaccine announced that |
| 1:35.4 | phase three trials were successful. The news from Pfizer and Biotech came as cases soared once more |
| 1:42.7 | across the world and much of Europe is back in lockdown. |
| 1:46.9 | Over 1.2 million people have died with the disease, and life for everyone has been radically altered. |
| 1:54.4 | So the idea that one day, soon, this might all be over is, well, quite a relief. |
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