We all know the disruptive nature of technology - and how it shakes up traditional industries. Just look at how Amazon changed book-selling and how companies like Uber are threatening the traditional taxi market.  But the internet is also helping get people into work who would otherwise be excluded.  Almost 100,000 people are working in call centres in Britain from their own homes. It especially benefits carers and parents of very young children because they can answer calls at anytime of the day or night if they wish.  Joe Lynam went along to find out more about the new army of home workers

Homeworking Package Today Prog 7 8 14

Instead of playing my interview with the CEO of Dixons Warehouse Sebastian James, they played a tape of a man talking about his love of horses!!
It was all part of the chaos of Jim Naughtie's last day as presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4

This happens when you run to the studio on Today on Radio 4

Part one: 

Host Ciarán Hancock and Markets Correspondent Joe Brennan are joined on the line by BBC business reporter Joe Lynam to get the latest understanding of short and long-term impact of Brexit. The drop in sterling aside, the much-anticipated "short, sharp shock" hasn't quite materialised. What is the current mood among the Conservative party, and what awaits Britain and Ireland after Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty is invoked next March?

Part two:

In the wake of the closure of Clerys last June, it has come to light that Boston-based equity firm Gordon Brothers paid themselves €3.65 million shortly before the the store closed its doors and 460 people lost their jobs. Business Affairs Correspondent Mark Paul talks us through the recent developments.

Part three: 

The latest in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards nominee profiles features Stephen Vernon of Green Property and Colin Culliton from TPI Group.

Bracing for "Hard Brexit" / Clerys' Tax Loophole / Stephen Vernon and Colin Culliton

Some comedy sketches recorded in in our final year of UCD as well as a mock radio soap opera set in Wexford.  Featuring Peter Murphy, Siobhan Doyle, Joe Lynam and Conor Linehan

Murph & Lynam Comedy Sketches And TULLYCANNA Ep 1

mock radio soap opera set in Wexford. Featuring Peter Murphy, Siobhan Doyle, Joe Lynam and Conor Linehan

Tullycanna Further Episodes

4 songs written by the Peter Murphy and Joe Lynam between July 1992 and Dec 1993

November In July

In June 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann checked into a Sligo hotel.

Five days later his body was found on Rosses Point beach. Despite thousands of hours of police investigations, his true identity remains unknown.

In a three-part podcast, Irish Times Senior Features Writer Rosita Boland explores in detail the decade-long mystery of a man who came to Sligo to disappear

This happens when you run to the studio on Today on Radio 4

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