Toast - Kodak

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Kodak made photography mainstream so why did it falter in a digital age?

The BBC Business journalist, Sean Farrington, discovers how Kodak rose to become a massive global enterprise best known for its cameras and film.

Alongside him is the serial entrepreneur, Sam White, ready to offer her opinions on the business's fortunes.

Kodak is still trading profitably but is now a much smaller business than it once was.

Sean and Sam hear from expert guests including:

Kamal Munir - Professor of Strategy & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School which is part of the University of Cambridge

Don Strickland - Kodak's former Vice President of Digital Imaging

Paul O'Sullivan - who runs a film processing business in London

Andrew Long - who worked in Kodak's consumer products division in the UK.

Produced by Jon Douglas. Toast is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

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Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in December, where Greg Foot investigates so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread. In the meantime, Toast is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder.
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0:28.0	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org-slash fringe.
0:34.4	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.3	You're about to listen to the latest series of Toast.
0:44.0	Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:50.9	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episode seven days earlier than anywhere else, first on BBC Sounds.
0:59.0	Hello and welcome to Toast, the BBC Radio 4 series where we look at amazing business ideas that reach some pretty dizzy heights, but somehow end up toast.
1:04.3	I'm Sean Farrington, with me, of course, is the entrepreneur Sam White.
1:08.6	Hello again, Sam.
1:10.1	Hello, Sean. Once again, you know nothing about
1:13.5	what we are talking about, but once again, I assume you are pumped for a load of info to come
1:18.7	your way. Absolutely, I am raring to go. Let's get down to business and find out what it's all about.
1:26.9	Right, Sam, I want you to try and imagine a world without cameras on our phones.
1:32.9	What would you turn to?
1:35.6	I have no idea.
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