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Aug 2023
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1. From the High Street to the City: Bri...

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Are we witnessing the slow death of the British stock market? Can the high street survive in 2023? Why is the French government paying its farmers to destroy the country's wine surplus?


Join Robert Peston and Steph McGovern as they answer all these questions and more in the first ever episode of The Rest Is Money.


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