Today: Tiger Mother from BBC Podcast - Best of Today

The award for controversial book of the year so far for concerned parents has to be Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. The author is a Chinese American academic at Yale and it plots her "tough mothering" style of parenting. Evan spoke to the writer Amy Chua to explain her thinking. Listen to the podcast.

DigitalP: 04 Jan 11: Innovation in digital technology from Digital Planet

Gareth Mitchell discusses innovation in digital technology with Bill Thompson, author Peter Nowak and broadcaster LJ Rich. Download the podcast here.

Today: Why do we love a white Christmas? from BBC Podcast - Best of Today

Why are we so obsessed with the idea of a white Christmas? Social historian Juliet Gardiner and author Jacqueline Simpson discuss the origins of this expectation.

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Today: Business News with Adam Shaw from BBC Podcast - Best of Today

Business news with Adam Shaw: Economist Ian Shepherdson analyses the effects of the US Federal Reserve announcement today whether it's going ahead with a second round of quantitative easing. Stockbroker Paul Kavanagh examines why trading was halted yesterday for two hours on one of the London Stock Exchange's key trading platforms, the LSE believes this "may have occurred in suspicious circumstances". Vice President of Booz & Company, Michael Knott talks about the drop in research and development spending among the world's top 1,000 public companies.

Listen to the podcast here, or download the podcast here. You can also stream the file here. See also: Economics of the City (Studies the UK Economy), Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, The Case Against the Fed, http://www.federalreserve.gov/