Brick by brick

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The UK's biggest housebuilder tells us it's the worst time for first-time buyers since 2008.

Elsewhere, we hear that the UK risks creating a stolen generation if it doesn't bring more young people into employment.

And ahead of the Premier League Darts final, we'll hear from the boss of the company that makes the boards for the competition.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift,
0:23.6	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.7	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:43.1	Hello, welcome to wake up to money.
0:45.7	We're going to be getting into a few financial issues for younger people on the show today.
0:50.3	We've had the UK's biggest house builder tell this program that it's the worst time to be a first-time buyer since the 2008 financial crisis.
1:00.1	And it's a comparable time to that as well.
1:02.5	We'll dig into the details and hear more about that.
1:05.5	Meanwhile, this new review from a former government minister today talking about employment opportunities
1:11.5	for younger people, saying the UK risks creating a lost generation. And Darts fans will be
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