4.2 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Martin’s off air for the next few weeks so it’s a chance to revisit some of the best bits of the year so far.
Martin explains all you need to know about student finance, what you could be entitled to, and how much you will pay back.
We also hear our listeners’ best budget wedding stories.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
0:11.0 | Now, we decided that what you really wanted during the summer was a whole host of best of podcasts. |
0:17.6 | Subtext, I'm taking a few weeks off and we didn't want to leave you without a podcast, so we've decided to pick a few of the best bits to show you, well, I'm taking a few weeks off and we didn't want to leave you without a podcast, |
0:21.2 | so we've decided to pick a few of the best bits to show you, well, I'm taking a little bit |
0:25.0 | of a break and resting these vocal chords. When you talk as quickly as I do, that's quite important. |
0:29.7 | In this week's Lookback podcast, everything you've ever needed to know about student finance |
0:34.8 | and we're afraid to ask. Quite important too, as there's a new |
0:38.0 | academic year soon about to start. We've had some cracking tellers this year. So this is another |
0:43.0 | chance to hear your budget wedding stories. They were really good at these. And remember, |
0:47.7 | much of these come from by BBC Radio 5 live show. Some of these will involve a presenter, |
0:52.8 | often Nihal, Arthur Nyaka. Oh, they were the |
0:55.8 | days. What do you mean? It was only a few weeks ago, what you're talking about? Let's get on with it, shall we? |
1:01.7 | I got meals. I got to pay. So I'm going to work for it. I'm going to work. I'm going to Now, time to talk, student finance, there is |
1:21.5 | September. |
1:22.3 | There's hundreds of thousands of students will be starting for the first time and hundreds |
1:26.3 | of thousands more will be |
1:27.6 | continuing and student finance is a political football. Not only that, it is full of fundamental |
1:35.4 | misunderstandings and myths about the way it works. So I want to prepare everybody for the start |
1:41.4 | of the new academic term and to help me have some guests on the podcast. |
1:45.6 | So first of all, I'd like to welcome Pippa and George from Litchfield. Pippa, you're the mom. |
1:50.5 | George, you're 17 looking at going to university. Tell me, what are you thinking about the student |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.