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Beermat Radio, in association with the Financial Times, is a series of unique business radio shows. We're talking to successful entrepreneurs, CEO's and thought leaders about their lives and businesses.

You can listen to shows featuring Coffee Republic co-founder Sahar Hashemi, Lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman, ex-head of NatWest retail Tim Jones and many more.

Most editions are available in two versions:

Short free version - approx 10 mins - free for everyone and available on Beermat.biz, on other websites and on itunes. Never miss a free episode, copy and paste this link into your podcast-receiving software: Podcast RSShttp://www.beermat.biz/podcast.xml. To find out more about podcast-receiving software, click here.

Full version - approx 35 mins - pay-as-you-go or free for Beermat.biz Full Members. Full length podcasts are available exclusively on Beermat.biz and can only be downloaded by visiting Beermat.biz.

All Beermat Radio podcasts are in MP3 format, so you can listen to them on your computer or copy them onto your MP3 player.



Kristin Syltevik: Golden rules of PR

Kristin Syltevik: Golden rules of PR

Today’s show is a gift for anyone thinking about promotions and PR. Mike’s guest in this show is Kristin Syltevik, CEO of Hotwire PR, and she’s going ...


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Alex van Someren: How to not spend £100m

Alex van Someren: How to not spend £100m

In this week’s show, Mike meets Alex van Someren, former CEO of nCipher, an enterprise data security company. What’s interesting about Alex, though, i...


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Daniel Doulton: Getting the message

Daniel Doulton: Getting the message

Mike’s guest in this programme is Daniel Doulton; COO of SpinVox, the nifty service which converts your voicemails into text messages. The business ha...


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Harold Goddijn: TomTom, a clear direction

Harold Goddijn: TomTom, a clear direction

In this show, we meet Harold Goddijn, CEO of Satellite Navigation manufacturers, TomTom. TomTom has broken all the rules: manufacturing a technology p...


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Something About The Beatles (and Stackridge)

Something About The Beatles (and Stackridge)

Music to accompany Mike Southon’s e-zine from 6th June 2008.

Listen to this free track - "Something About The Beatles" by Stackridge.
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Dr John Demartini: Your Breakthrough Experience

Dr John Demartini: Your Breakthrough Experience

Mike’s guest in this show is Dr John Demartini, one of the few lecturers on the business circuit to focus both on personal and business welfare- and w...


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Brent Hoberman: After Lastminute.com

Brent Hoberman: After Lastminute.com

In this show, Mike’s guest is Brent Hoberman. You’ll know Brent as co-founder of internet sensation Lastminute.com, but as you’ll hear, he’s had plent...


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Phill Robinson: Planning the mighty oak

Phill Robinson: Planning the mighty oak

Many small businesses struggle to see what’s going to happen next week let alone next month. Phill Robinson of Velocix sees things differently. He say...


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Paul Bridle: Analysing Leadership

Paul Bridle: Analysing Leadership

Mike’s guest in this show is Paul Bridle, Leadership Methodologist. He’s carefully analysed successful business leaders- and their staff- and found ou...


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Simon Clark: Fidelity, Integrity, Money

Simon Clark: Fidelity, Integrity, Money

In this programme, Mike meets Simon Clark of venture capital firm Fidelity Ventures. On occasions we’ve been pretty scathing about VC’s, but Simon is ...


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Richard Richardson: Marketing Judo

Richard Richardson: Marketing Judo

This week, Mike meets Richard Richardson, credited with turning legendary chip shop Harry Ramsden’s from a single Yorkshire outlet into a global brand...


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Emma Willis: A cut above

Emma Willis: A cut above

Are you proud enough of your work to put your own name above your premises? Emma Willis is. She’s the only female shirt-maker on London’s world-famous...


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Your chance to change the world : Craig Dearden Phillips

Your chance to change the world : Craig Dearden Phillips

In this show we’re back with one of our first ever Beermat Radio guests, social entrepreneur Craig Dearden Phillips. His venture, Speaking Up is achie...


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Reputation management: Michael Hayman

Reputation management: Michael Hayman

What do you stand for? In this show, we meet Michael Hayman, CEO of PR Company The Communication Group. His company has marshalled companies and polit...


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Lindsey Walker and Shelley-Anne Salisbury: Tips from the Clips -  Full podcast

Lindsey Walker and Shelley-Anne Salisbury: Tips from the Clips - Full podcast

Mike’s meets Lindsey Walker and Shelley-Anne Salisbury, inventors of the Linziclip - a revolutionary hairclip now on sale in 17 countries. We’ll learn...


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Keith Haviland: From premise to promise -  Full podcast

Keith Haviland: From premise to promise - Full podcast

Mike’s guest in this show is Keith Haviland, head of Delivery at business consultants Accenture- with 40,000 people worldwide reporting to him. But wh...


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Ian Sanders: Take the Leap!

Ian Sanders: Take the Leap!

Mike’s guest in this show is Ian Sanders. He’s had a 20 year marketing career in some of Europe’s biggest media companies and now runs his own busines...


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David Giampaolo: A piece of the Pi

David Giampaolo: A piece of the Pi

In this show, Mike meets David Giampaolo, whose business career started at a tender age- cutting lawns in Florida. As an adult, he followed his passio...


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Carmel McConnell: Feeding tomorrow's entrepreneurs

Carmel McConnell: Feeding tomorrow's entrepreneurs

In this programme, Mike's guest is Carmel McConnell. A natural reactionary, Carmel is enjoying a change of direction after a high-flying stint at BT. ...


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Louise Third: PR on a Beermat

Louise Third: PR on a Beermat

In this show, we catch up with Louise Third and Maisha Frost. Louise is the author of “PR on a Beermat”, and she has hooked up with journalist Maisha ...


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Spencer Gallagher: Building a top agency

Spencer Gallagher: Building a top agency

Spencer Gallagher is our guest in this programme. He's the MD of Bluhalo, an award-winning web design house with glamorous clients and a high turnover...


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Dan McGuire: I Tripled the Ratecard

Dan McGuire: I Tripled the Ratecard

Mike's guest in this show is Dan McGuire, whose service has revolutionised the recruitment industry and won him the Young Entrepreneur of the Year awa...


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Dragon's Den and Rachel Lowe: Revisited

Dragon's Den and Rachel Lowe: Revisited

In this show, Mike meets Rachel Lowe. Rachel was juggling the demands of being a young mother to two children with a low-paid job as a cab driver when...


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Kelvin MacKenzie: The full blaze of the Sun

Kelvin MacKenzie: The full blaze of the Sun

This programme is the first of two shows with Kelvin MacKenzie, ex-editor of the Sun, ex-MD of BSkyB, and bete noir of the right wing. We’ll find out ...


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Dave Rogers: The Real Deal

Dave Rogers: The Real Deal

In this show, Mike catches up with deal making specialist Dave Rogers. Canadian-born Dave has managed multi-million pound portfolios, and is a whirlwi...


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Judy Naake: The Queen of Self-Tan!

Judy Naake: The Queen of Self-Tan!

Mike’s guest in this show is Judy Naake. Judy is the ultimate saleswoman, and has earned her living pounding the streets, first as a cigarette-sellin...


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Paul Dunn: The Wizard of Wow

Paul Dunn: The Wizard of Wow

Paul is called “the Wizard of Wow”, but that’s not just self-marketing-speak: he’s built up two 20-million-dollar companies and remains passionate abo...


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Rene Carayol: Blueprint for leadership

Rene Carayol: Blueprint for leadership

In this show, we meet Rene Carayol. Rene is an expert in leadership. It’s an overused word, but Rene has homed in on the skills which make great busin...


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Helena Hudson: Cooking up a classic

Helena Hudson: Cooking up a classic

In this show, Mike meets Helena Hudson, a classic second-time round entrepreneur. After a successful city career, Helena and her husband decamped to B...


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QI: Quite interesting again

QI: Quite interesting again

For the second year running, the almanacks of trivia under the "QI" brand, loosely based on the hit BBC panel game of the same name, are fly...


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