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Big Boss Interview is where the most high-profile chief executives and entrepreneurs come to give you their insights and experiences of running the world's biggest and well-known businesses.

Podcast · By BBC News · English · Official site

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11
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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 29, 2026

    EDF CEO: Another Energy Crisis is Coming (opens the original)

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    Britain is "walking into a second significant energy crisis", the boss of the country's largest electricity generator has warned. Simone Rossi, chief executive of EDF in the UK, told the BBC's Business Editor Simon Jack on the Big Boss Interview that household bills are forecast to rise by around 20% in January. Customers still owe more than £5bn from the last crisis, four years ago. Gas is driving the rise. Gas prices are up 25%, while the electricity part of the price cap is 4% lower than in J

  2. Episode · Sep 28, 2026

    Aviva CEO: We're Building Uninsurable Homes (opens the original)

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    The boss of Aviva, Britain's biggest insurer, has warned that some homes being built today could eventually become impossible to insure because of flood risk. Speaking to Sean Farrington, Dame Amanda Blanc said Britain is continuing to build homes in areas exposed to flooding, despite the growing threat from climate change. Aviva estimates 6.3 million UK homes are already at risk of flooding, a figure it expects to rise to 8 million by 2050. She said insurance works by spreading risk across larg

  3. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    Sage CEO: Don't Build Data Centres in UK (opens the original)

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    The chief executive of Britain’s biggest listed technology company has questioned the government’s push to build more data centres, arguing that the UK does not have the scale to become a truly sovereign AI nation. Steve Hare, chief executive of Sage, says Britain should be realistic about where it can compete. He argues that data centres themselves are simply infrastructure and do not give the UK control over the underlying technology. If Britain wants greater technological sovereignty, he beli

  4. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    INEOS CEO: I Have No Confidence in the UK (opens the original)

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    Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in Britain and can see no circumstances in the near future in which he would return and reinvest his wealth in the UK. Ratcliffe, one of Britain’s wealthiest businessmen and founder of one of its biggest industrial companies, is now a tax resident of Monaco. He argues that high and frequently changing taxes, energy policy and a lack of long-term political decision-making have damaged Britain’s ability to attract investment. “I don’t have any confiden

  5. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    Paul Smith Exec Chair: Working From Home Doesn't Work (opens the original)

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    The executive chair of Paul Smith says working from home “just doesn’t work” for young people and has urged the government to stay out of decisions over where employees work. Ewan Venters argues that younger workers risk missing the informal learning and mentoring that comes from being around more experienced colleagues. He traces his own career back to joining Sainsbury’s at sixteen and learning from senior business figures by working alongside them, describing the experience as his “university

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