Budget Day 2025
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Budget Day has arrived - Sean Farrington hears from businesses, individuals and listeners throughout the programme.
That the National Living Wage will rise by 4.1% in April - how might that affect businesses? One pub chain talks to us.
And one of Netflix's biggest successes, Stranger Things, reaches its fifth and final season starting tonight - we look at where the business of the streaming service stands after it finishes.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it. |
| 0:13.3 | But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go? |
| 0:19.2 | I remember having this very sharp thought |
| 0:21.7 | that what you do right now, |
| 0:23.6 | this is it, this defines your life. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm ready to talk and ready to listen. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this. |
| 0:33.9 | Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.0 | Wake up to money from BBC 5 Live. Hello, welcome. It is Wake Up to Money one year and one |
| 0:46.6 | month since the last one. Budget Day has arrived. We're going to be hearing from those running |
| 0:52.0 | some of our biggest and vast smallest businesses throughout the show today. |
| 0:56.0 | We want to hear from you as well. |
| 0:57.6 | Any questions you have on tax, on spend, on welfare, economic policy, what all of this means for wages. |
| 1:04.2 | We do know minimum wages are increasing by 8.5% for 18 to 20 year olds. |
| 1:10.0 | We're going to have a look at the help-to-save scheme |
| 1:12.5 | that's going to be extended more sugar taxes on the way. |
| 1:15.4 | Some of the things we know already, |
| 1:16.6 | relaxing restrictions on new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, |
| 1:20.7 | and what might be announced that we don't know already |
| 1:24.4 | by Rachel Reeves at the budget later. |
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