I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism.

In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero?

Simply doing your job, being a decent human being.

A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by

their own light and that light is to be recognised by others. The long history of heroism with me,

Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds.

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. Hello morning and welcome to wake up to money.

Today, we're heading down the pub to try and find out why so many are closing at such a

rapid rate.

It's getting harder and harder for them to keep the lights on and keep the doors open.

We'll hear how the price of a pint is shaping our pub going habits.

Prices have obviously risen and it has had to be reflected in the price of the time.

And how much tougher it's getting for even some of our most established pub businesses

to keep going right now.

There is no help coming from anywhere in any policy in Scottish or English government.

We are on our own.

So on Wake Up to Money today, we're going to be asking, what's going wrong with our pubs?

Wake Up to Money with Will Bain.

Hello, morning and a very happy bank holiday Monday from the Wake Up to Money team.

It's just gone 5 o'clock in the morning on Monday, 25th of August. Will Bain

here with you this morning. Yes, today, inspired really by some of your texts in recent weeks

about what's been happening with your local pubs. We thought we'd use the last bank holiday

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