Italy eases coronavirus restrictions - a podcast by BBC World Service

Shops and cinemas in Italy are reopening, whilst hospitality venues can now serve outside. Italian celebrity chef Alessandro Borghese runs a restaurant in Milan and gives us his reaction to the news. And we find out how Italy plans to spend more than $200bn from a European Union-wide recovery fund with Pietro Reichlin, who is an economist at Luiss University in Rome.
Also in the programme, the collapse of Greensill Capital in the UK has drawn attention to the practice of supply chain financing, which Greensill was known for. Charlotte Bancilhon is from the consultancy BSR, and explains how it works. Nirav Choski is chief executive of India's CredAble, which offers such a service. And Alex Yang of the London Business School discusses how to mitigate the risk of problems with supply chain finance.
Plus, a company called Mirriad has developed a technique that enables product placement in archive films and TV shows. Stephan Beringer is chief executive of the firm and tells us how it works.

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