This week's instalment of Punchline Talks features a BiG interview with Neill Ricketts, CEO of advanced engineering group Versarien.

Versarien is renowned for the use of graphene, most recently in concrete.

Each Friday, Punchline editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to debate the local and national news and issues from the previous seven days.

This week's panel will bring views from a wide range of businesses to discuss which stories caught their eye, plus the latest developments in their own sectors.

• John Workman - senior partner at BPE Solicitors.

• Steve Gardner-Collins -sales director at the Hatton Collective (which runs six hotels and two pubs), director and chair of Visit Gloucestershire, and president of the Gloucester Chamber of Commerce.

• Julie Kent MBE - vice chair of the Pied Piper Appeal and motivational speaker.

• Talitha Nelson, CEO at Gloucestershire Community Foundation and retail guru.

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To get involved - either to raise a topic for debate or to be on the panel - email mark@moosemarketingandpr.co.uk.