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The Martin Lewis Podcast

A wallet workout to gain pounds! Earn £100s in minutes perusing your purse or (digital) wallet

The Martin Lewis Podcast

BBC

Business

4.4929 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Martin Lewis tells you how to speedily spot the best debit cards, credit cards, overdrafts, improve your driving licence, organ donor cards and more! Plus, new top savings, Martin’s meeting with the Chancellor, and success story on how to beat the O2 price-hike hike!

If you’ve got a question for Martin on absolutely anything and everything, you can ask him in his Question Time podcast! Email your question to MartinLewisPodcast@bbc.co.uk.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:06.0

Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast.

0:11.0

I do wonder what that's going to be about.

0:13.8

Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Childs,

0:17.4

but there's also bonus money-saving tips just for you, lucky, lucky podcast listeners.

0:23.7

In today's pod, the big topic, my wallet workout. Can you save hundreds of pounds in just a few

0:31.2

minutes looking through your wallet or purse or digital wallet? The wallet is a gateway to your

0:36.9

finances, debit cards, credit cards,

0:38.7

driving license, loyalty cards, donor cards, free cash for bank switching, overdrafts and more I'll be

0:43.7

going through them. It's the workout that gains you pounds. Then state-backed NS&I has boosted

0:51.3

savings rates. It's good for bigger savers. I'll be talking you through it. I don't say bigger savers.

0:54.9

I mean money, not wait, obviously.

0:57.2

We have a great success story showing how much you can save by escaping O2's price hike on a price hike.

1:04.5

And my mastermind question this week is all about credit scores.

1:09.2

Play the theme tune.

1:10.4

I got meals. is all about credit scores. Play the theme tune.

1:26.6

Do you know what I've just found in my wallet.

1:27.7

You're not going to believe this.

1:28.9

I totally forgot about it.

1:46.1

It's that flipping 10-pound note. The ripped one? The ripped one we had. You never did anything. Did you try salitating it back together? We talked. I tried and then I thought this will never be accepted. I went into a couple of banks and they'd turn me away. I did tell you there is an official process to do it at the Bank of England.

1:46.8

I know. And we had this discussion.

1:48.1

I know. went into a couple of banks and they'd turn me away. I did tell you there was an official process to do it at the Bank of England.

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