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Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Will Bain takes a look at poverty rates in the UK. Elsewhere, a pub landlord discusses the cost of screening live sports, and we speak to a business helping schools to manage phone use in the classroom.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan.

0:25.9

However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked.

0:30.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:36.2

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:39.6

Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money.

0:41.6

Almost 7 million people in the UK were living in very deep poverty in 2023 to 2024.

0:47.5

That's the highest on record, according to one charity.

0:50.6

We'll be delving a little bit deeper into those figures a little bit later on on the programme. Also this morning, is this the way you like to watch the beautiful game? You know, we're one of the biggest providers in terms of showing football in pubs, and if you go in to watch football in a pub, the atmosphere is incredible. Yeah, we'll be hearing from a landlord worried the changes to business rates, though, will also increase the cost of screening games at his pubs.

1:11.6

And as the government marls a social media ban for under 16s, we'll be speaking to a business that's trying to make life easier for schools who want to impose phone bans in the classroom.

1:21.7

Wake Up to Money with Will Bain.

1:25.3

Morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money on Tuesday, the 27th of January.

1:28.7

Just on 5 o'clock in the morning.

1:29.9

Will with you this morning.

1:30.8

Great to have your company.

1:31.7

Yes, lots has happened overnight as well that we're going to get to potentially changes around leaseholds and free and the crap on ground rent that being trailed really, hasn't it, since the Labour Party manifesto,

1:46.7

it sounds like there's going to be changes to that this morning. We'll be delving into that. Also,

1:51.0

we've got some fresh data out from the British Retail Consortium about what's going on with

1:54.7

price inflation in our stores as well. And yeah, we'll be talking a little bit later on in the

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