Simon Evans Goes To Market
- Radio stand-up / factual
- BBC Radio 4
- 2014 - 2021
- 24 episodes (6 series)
Simon Evans presents a comic series explaining and exploring modern economics. Also features Tim Harford, Merryn Somerset Webb and Timandra Harkness.
Episode menu
Series 4, Episode 1 - Social Media
Many of the social media technologies look benign and free - but who is getting rich from them? And how? And how are we 'paying' without realising?
Further details
From the country-sized economy of Google changing the way we see adverts; to the seemingly free apps like Uber making San Francisco the economic centre of the world and changing the concept of local business; to social media platforms like Facebook redefining us as economic actors... the way we work, shop, meet, and think about money is profoundly changing. Many of these technologies look benign and free - but who is getting rich from them? And how? And how are we 'paying' without realising?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Simon Evans | Host / Presenter |
| Tim Harford | Self |
| Merryn Somerset Webb | Self |
| Timandra Harkness | Self |
| Simon Evans | Writer |
| Benjamin Partridge | Writer |
| Richard Morris | Producer |