America’s space effort faces big upheavals as President Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day asks what happens next on the USA’s journey into space. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Charles-Edouard Bouée from strategy consultants Roland Berger tells Peter Day how Chinese management philosophy is quite different to that in the West. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Information seems to be moving right to the heart of the 21st century economy but nobody really knows what it is or how it works. Peter Day talks to pioneers in the field of information management as well as corporate gatekeepers of this valuable commodity we call information to find out what advances are being made with the amount of data we now generate. Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day is back in China to hear from some of the newcomers making a splash on the Chinese business scene. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

America's space effort faces big upheavals as President Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day asks what happens next on the USA's journey into space. Producer: Julie Ball Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day continues his look at the future of the world energy industry. And in this programme he hears more from three prominent figures in the oil industry: Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former oil minister for Saudi Arabia, Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize, and Malcolm Brinded of Royal Dutch Shell. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

In an age of high technology communications, two long-established companies in a single German city are still battling each other for supremacy in a global marketplace ... in pencils. In Nuremberg Peter Day asks Faber-Castell and Staedtler how they both stay sharp ... and finds out what light (and shade) they can throw on the success of German industry and the viability of Europe as a single economy. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Turmoil across the Middle East sent oil prices jumping and has raised big questions about the security of the energy supplies that have powered the world economy for the past 100 years. Peter Day investigates the future of oil and what the current upheavals might mean for other energy supplies. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and China are the BRICs - the developing countries experts think are well on their way to the top of the world's economic league table. But now there's talk that the fourth most populous country, Indonesia, is heading there, too. From Jakarta, Peter Day finds out more. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Peter Day has his 'thinking hat' on for this edition when he hears from two academics from the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott