One of America’s most prominent cases of financial abuse. Brooke Astor was a well-known figure in New York high society and one of the 20th century's great philanthropists. Over the next three decades, she oversaw $195 million dollars worth of grants to organisations and charities. However, when she began displaying signs of dementia, the situation took a different turn. You'll hear from Brooke's grandson, Philip, about the personal financial crime that unfolded within his own family.

We’re used to hearing about stocks, credit or commodities being at the centre of bubbles, but never a flower. Today, we’ll be looking at tulip mania - a period in the 1630s when the prices of tulip bulbs in the Netherlands soared to unprecedented levels, driven by a speculative frenzy. I’ll be talking to Anne Goldgar, an American historian and academic, who argues that tulip mania was not a widespread frenzy that affected the whole society, but rather a limited phenomenon.

Patrick Foster had a promising career as a professional cricketer, until gambling came into the picture. He shares his journey from being a sports star to a compulsive gambler who ended up in £250,000 of debt, revealing how he got hooked on betting, lost his job and his friends, and how he tried to escape his addiction by moving to a different city and becoming a teacher.

Martha Lane Fox is the co-founder of lastminute.com. She sold it in 2005 for a whopping £577 million when she was only 31. We discuss how they raised money for their innovative idea, how they became one of the most popular online travel platforms during the dotcom boom of the early 2000s, what happened after they went public, and how Marta’s life was changed by a serious accident.

Keith Gill, aka RoaringKitty and DeepFuckingValue, was a financial analyst and online trader who challenged Wall Street with GameStop, a retailer on the verge of bankruptcy. Financial journalist Iona Bain and I look at how the GameStop saga stands as a testament to the potential impact of individual investors challenging established norms, and the key things investors can learn from this rollercoaster of a story.

Are you familiar with the name Jordan Belfort? If not, you might recognise him as the infamous 'Wolf of Wall Street'. Belfort's journey in the financial world is nothing short of exhilarating — starting from his humble beginnings as a door-to-door salesman to becoming the mastermind behind Stratton Oakmont, a fraudulent brokerage firm that swindled millions from unsuspecting investors.