Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment,

and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments.

That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly,

a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed from the BBC's business team.

Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Vashalas Sri Puthma.

This week we celebrate a centenarian's birthday with one of Britain's most talented scientists.

Once described as the most important and original scientific thinker in the world,

James Lovelock is still a hugely influential environmental thinker.

He's credited with spotting the first signs of climate change and coming up with the Gaia hypothesis,

the idea that the earth and all its living organisms are one entity.

Last month he turned 101 years old.

Our chief environment correspondent, Justin Rowlat, had the opportunity to speak to him about his life's work.

He started by explaining that science was not a career option for him when he left school.

My mother and father couldn't afford to send me to university.

In fact, they needed an income I could produce at age 17 when I left to grammar school.

And so I went to work for a firm of consultants.

I was dead lucky.

I learnt more from them and a better attitude

than any student anywhere would get.

I learnt so much because the boss, he said, don't worry about learning the science,

we're going to pay for you to go to Birkbeck as an evening class student, which they did.

And he said, as soon as you passed your degree, said you get the sack.

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