Better Rate Than Never?

Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

After the second monthly inflation figure in a row came in lower than expected and the Bank of England cut interest rates this week, Will Bain is joined by our weekly panel to look at what it means for businesses and the economy.

As we get ever closer to the 25th of December, we'll hear about what impact the rising cost of a Christmas dinner is having.

Plus, on 'Mad Friday', potentially one of the busiest nights for hospitality businesses of the year, one owner tells us how he's preparing for it.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay? It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hop Christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:41.1	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:44.3	Hello morning, welcome to wake up to money.
0:46.4	Many were expecting a Christmas interest rate cut and now we've had it.
0:50.2	That comes off the back of a couple of notable economic data releases this week,
0:54.5	so plenty then for our panel to pour their way through this morning as our Friday economics panel
0:59.3	gather for us. Also on the program today, as we get closer to the big day,
1:03.7	they've not got me turkey yet, but I've got my ham, I've got my beef.
1:07.7	Yeah, how prepared are you? We'll hear about some of the rising prices of some of those items
1:12.3	and how families are dealing with a potentially costly Christmas dinner.
1:15.8	Plus, it's potentially one of the busiest nights of the year for hospitality.
1:20.2	One owner tells us how he's preparing for what's known as Mad Friday.
1:24.1	Wake Up to Money with Will Bade.
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