All Things Business - The Podcast
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In this episode of All Things Business The Podcast, Ben is joined by Chief Superintendent Emma Baillie and Amanda Marlow to talk about knife crime.

Friday May 02, 2025
Peter Taylor: The man taking basketball by storm | Ep78
Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
This episode’s guest is Peter Taylor, Chairman at the MK Breakers Basketball Club. The club’s meteoric rise has been the pride of the city, with the club winning national championships and their senior team achieving back-to-back promotions up basketball’s pyramid.

Monday Apr 07, 2025
Daniel Crask and Sian: Stone Successful growth and giving back | Ep77
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Daniel Crask and Sian Stone from Acorn Analytical Services join Ben for this edition of All Things Business – The Podcast. The asbestos management business has seen some extraordinary growth in the past few years and are using that growth to help promote and raise money for a number of local charities.

Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Amanda, Shazna and Michelle: Women Changing the World | Ep 76
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
International Women’s Day is this Saturday (March 8th 2025), and today Ben is joined by three incredible women from the local business community.

Monday Feb 24, 2025
Nigel Wagstaff: In 42 years, this was my biggest challenge | Ep75
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Today’s guest is Nigel Wagstaff, Managing Director of Houghton Hams. Better known as Waggy, Nigel has had a storied career in business throughout multiple industries, but Houghton Hams has remained his pride and joy. A family-owned and run business, Houghton Hams began life in 1983. Waggy used his connections in the food business from his time as a sales manager to get started, getting his first ham cure from his former employer. Seeing a gap in the local ham market, he used some redundancy money and a loan from the bank to start the business, producing his first 50 hams and delivering them himself.

Monday Feb 10, 2025
Ryan Evans: I never saw myself as an entrepreneur | Ep74
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Ben and Nick welcome Ryan Evans, Director at MK Loft Boarding. The business offers loft conversion services: creating raised loft boarding, installing ladders and adding mains light support. Their boarding method, where the board is fixed directly to the joist, allows for better air flow and greatly reduces issues such as damp and condensation and is much more suited for lofts with insulation or wiring installed. This makes their lofts much more usable as storage spaces.

Monday Jan 27, 2025
Faryl Smith: Northamptonshire's singing sensation | Ep73
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
All Things Business – The Podcast welcomes Faryl Smith, who Ben bills as ‘Northamptonshire’s finest singer’, a title she’s hesitant to accept but one that’s difficult to dispute. Born in Kettering, Faryl recently returned to the county with her fiancé after ten years living in London. She was training to become an opera singer at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, completing undergraduate, postgraduate and opera-specific courses.

Monday Jan 13, 2025
Mike Tillson & Matt Thompson: Northamptonshire Limited Report 2024 | Ep72
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
For the first episode of 2025, Ben is joined by Mike Tilson, Partner at Grant Thornton and Matt Thompson, Corporate Partner at Howes Percival. They’re here to discuss the Northamptonshire Limited Report, an annual report celebrating the top 100 businesses in the county produced collaboratively between the two law firms. This year, they’re including more detailed information on the fastest growing businesses and international contributors.

Monday Dec 09, 2024
Derek Redmond: 11:45, 27th July 1985…the day my life changed | Ep 71
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
In the final episode of All Things Business – The Podcast for 2024, Ben sits down with renowned Olympian and Northampton’s own Derek Redmond.
A life defined by determination and perseverance, here the full story on the latest episode of All Things Business – The Podcast.