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Saira Khan: Tonight on the Money Programme, we’re in Downing Street to meet some of the most successful business operators in the UK. Meet Britain’s Mumpreneurs - women who rejected conventional working life toiling for an unsympathetic boss.

Woman: I met a banker who told me that in her office you’d be better off coming out as a cocaine addict than as a mother.

Saira: Instead they’ve started their own businesses.

Woman 2: Welcome to my boardroom.

Saira: Thank you very much, and very compact it is too.

Saira: And they say it suits their kids as well.

Woman 2: I would hate to have to ask my boss if I could take time off to do the school run, the school play, school sports day…

Saira: Mumpreneurs are now a major force in British business.

Woman 3: They bring in 4.4 billion pounds to the British economy. They’re the fastest growing sector of the small business community.

Saira: Every day more and more women are deciding that being their own boss is the best way to earn a living and raise a family.

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Max Flint: Tonight on the Money Programme, brace yourself for a foreign invasion.

Youssef Nassr: They are in a difficult position of having a lot of money and not really knowing where, and how, to spend it.

Max: In a world crippled by the credit crunch, there’s a new economic super power on the block.

Peter Barker Homek: By 2012 sovereign wealth funds will have about 7 trillion dollars at their disposal to invest worldwide.

Max: Foreign governments, rich from oil and trade have already invested in Barclays, Sainsburys and The London Stock Exchange.

They even have our football clubs in their sights…

Jimmy Tarbuck: It would be very strange to think my beloved Liverpool Football club was owned by another country.

Fan: Give this Sheikh a chance and he will make Liverpool great again.

Max: But are we selling Britain’s economic power on the cheap?

Jeremy: The danger is that a country which is as open as Britain to foreign investment eventually just becomes the kind of plaything for the political whims of foreign powers.

Max: Fasten your seatbelts for a journey from Merseyside to the Arabian Gulf, as we go in search of the super rich investors with enough cash and enough desire to buy up Britain.

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Max Flint: Summer wouldn’t be summer without festivals. In the UK this year there are 500 of them. So why do we like standing in muddy fields?

Helping me find the answers tonight is Myleene Klass. Do you still fancy being up on stage?

Myleene Klass: I do sometimes. I don’t miss the muddy fields though.

In fairness I still go to a lot of festivals as a punter. In fact three million of us go to festivals each year; what started with flower power has now turned into big business.

Max: We meet the men who’ve got millions riding on the success of their festivals. It’s a quick way of loosing money if you don’t get it right.

John Giddings: You gamble millions of pounds, hoping people will buy tickets to see the bands you think they want to see.

Melvin Benn: If you can’t find the audience, or you’ve got the wrong product, well you know you’re … really, in the same way that you are in any business.

Myleene: We’re behind the scenes as disaster strikes a fledgling festival.

Sophie Docker: There was a massive storm with thunder and lightning, it was all very dramatic.

Max: And meet the entrepreneurs who are profiting by catering to the needs of millions of festival-goers.

Suzie Myler: Last year’s turnover was upwards of quarter of a million.

Max: The rise in popularity of festivals has seen the return of some familiar faces.

Johnny Rotten: This way. Welcome to chez Rotten.

Max: Tonight, on the Money Programme, we investigate whether the future of festivals lies with the experienced old-hand promoters…

Myleene: … or with the bright young things trying to make their mark on the festival scene.