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Sliced Bread

Toast - Phones 4u

Dec 5, 2024
24:48

The mobile phone retailer, Phones 4u, was hugely profitable, so why did it have to close all of its 700+ shops?

The BBC Business journalist, Sean Farrington and the entrepreneur, Sam White discover how Phones 4u ended up toast with help from expert guests including:

John Caudwell - Phones 4u founder

Nikki Barrow & Chris Papageorgiou - former Phones 4u staff members

Ian White - editor of Mobile News magazine

Produced by Jon Douglas. Toast is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

You can email the programme at toast@bbc.co.uk

Feel free to suggest topics which could be covered in future episodes.

Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in December, where Greg Foot investigates so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread. In the meantime, Toast is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds

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