On the podium, season two is available now.

Like many people in this world, I had never seen an Olympic medal before.

Bringing you more remarkable stories of Olympic and Paralympic athletes and their incredible journeys to the podium.

This is my dream and it came true that day.

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

Hello, I'm Sam Fennick and today on Business Daily on the BBC World Service, you join me, splashing around in peat bogs.

Pete's a really important store of carbon and helps regulate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

But for more than 100 years, we've been digging it up and using it to grow plants.

There is no country where peat is not used.

Every single country in the world consumes peat or peat-based products.

Every year, gardeners and commercial growers around the world use enough compost to fill 16,000

Olympic-sized swimming pools. We cannot continue digging up and destroying these amazing

landscapes just to fill a cheap bag of garden compost. Some countries are now banning the sale of

peat in compost, but might the alternatives actually harm the environment more?

That's all coming up in Business Daily.

As lockdowns went into effect in the spring of 2020

to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Reports emerged of a global gardening boom,

with plants and flowers, vegetables and herbs,

sprouting in backyards and on balconies around the world.

Hello, my name is Aki Hiro-Zaki.

I'm managing a garden centre in the suburb about 40 minutes from the centre of Tokyo in Japan.

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