Are your savings safe in the bank? (and paying to squeeze blackheads)
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
With some uncertainty in the banking world, Martin talks you through how safe your savings are and how to make the most of the savings you have.
Martin also answers your questions including ‘What is better: a Help to buy ISA or a Lifetime ISA?’ and ‘What should I do with my inheritance?’ and you ‘tell us’ about the strangest thing you’ve ever paid for…
Plus some podcast exclusive tips on how to get a discounted family pass for National Trust sites and how you can get your hands on a free baked potato and beans!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Big, baggy, flamboyant, luminous green, pink and yellow shirts. |
| 0:04.0 | Brill-creamed hair, boy band style. |
| 0:05.8 | Levi's denim jackets, whack on the cologne. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to Belfast 1997. |
| 0:11.2 | Not just any old part of Belfast, but gay Belfast. |
| 0:14.4 | It was electric. |
| 0:15.8 | There was semi-naked guys dancing in cages. |
| 0:18.1 | Every cell in my body was just lit up. |
| 0:20.8 | Sat at the bar was Darren Bradshaw. |
| 0:22.7 | What happened next would go on to threaten peace in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:27.3 | One of the few gay police officers in the country shot dead. |
| 0:31.3 | Someone had told them that Darren Bradshaw was going to be murdered. |
| 0:35.0 | It's a story that's never been told before. |
| 0:37.3 | For his own skin, he traded Darren's life. This is blood in the dance floor. Listen now on BBC |
| 0:43.3 | Science. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly |
| 0:52.2 | named the Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Ooh, what's that going to be about, eh? |
| 0:57.3 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nihal Arthur Naika, |
| 1:01.6 | but there's bonus money saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners too. |
| 1:06.6 | This week, the big subject, is your money safe in the bank? |
| 1:10.6 | We've also got some interesting questions and answers, obviously, the big subject. Is your money safe in the bank? We've also got some interesting |
| 1:12.1 | questions and answers, obviously, on boosting savings and lifetime ices and savings tax too. |
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