Summary
Why was the video sharing platform, Vine, closed down?
Sean Farrington discovers what happened to the app which pioneered short, shareable videos on social media.
Sean speaks to one of Vine's founders, Rus Yusupov, the Vine content creator, Eric Dunn, and the BBC's Technology Editor, Zoe Kleinman.
Alongside them all analysing Vine's fortunes is the self-made millionaire and serial entrepreneur, Sam White.
Produced by Viant Siddique. Toast is a BBC Audio North production for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
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Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in May. In the new series, Greg Foot will investigate more of the latest 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 4 show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires. Live forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.4 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:49.8 | Hello and welcome to the BBC Radio 4 series, Toast, where we look at successful business ideas that rode the crest of a wave and somehow ended up toast. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm Sean Farrington. |
| 0:54.7 | With me is Sam White, entrepreneur, self-made millionaire, |
| 0:58.6 | the business brain behind our toast enterprise as ever. |
| 1:01.7 | Sam does not know what business we're going to be talking about until we start talking about it. |
| 1:03.7 | So she's done no extra digging, no asking chat GPT for the answer. |
| 1:08.2 | I'm going to hear your thoughts and conclusions as you go. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello, Sam. |
| 1:10.8 | Is this an option? I can use chat GPT partway through the answer. I'm going to hear your thoughts and conclusions as you go. Hello, Sam. Is this an option? I can use chat GPT partway through the programme to get some extra details. |
| 1:17.2 | You never said this was okay. No. I'll be checking throughout. Don't you worry about that. |
| 1:21.7 | Sam, being the global entrepreneur that you are, we're actually a few continents apart for this one. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm in Sulford in the Northern |
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