Can you beat the energy price cut? Trains crisis
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast Martin shares his thoughts on whether you should fix or switch energy providers given a potential price cut may be on the horizon. He also talks about his recent nightmare railway journey experience and we hear from the listeners about when they’ve asked for a pay rise at work. Plus Martin’s weekly money saving tips. 01’37 Energy bills 10’59 Train crisis 30’05 TELL US: When have you asked for a pay rise? 34’19 Mastermind 38’56 Martin’s money-saving tips 41’33 More TELL US
Transcript
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| 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. |
| 0:09.5 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:11.7 | Hmm. |
| 0:12.6 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nihal Arthur Nyaka. |
| 0:16.7 | But don't worry, there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
| 0:21.7 | In today's pod, coming on Friday, 7am, the new energy price cap for April will be announced. |
| 0:29.2 | And it's predicted it's going to drop. |
| 0:31.8 | Hallelujah. |
| 0:32.8 | 15% good, not brilliant, but good news at least. |
| 0:36.7 | However, there are ways you can pay even less for your |
| 0:40.0 | energy, and I'll talk you through how. Then, in a slight change to our normal topics, we'll have a rant |
| 0:46.8 | about British railways. Then we've got a brief tellers on how do you ask for a pay rise, and there's free money available, |
| 0:56.8 | up to 200 quid, is back for switching bank accounts, and I've got a whole host more for you. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, I need to tell you, the Five Live show was repeatedly, understandably interrupted by a parliamentary |
| 1:07.0 | debate on the situation in the Middle East. So, what we should all listen for now, and I'm intrigued, |
| 1:12.7 | is to see how well podcast producer Michael manages to stitch it all together. |
| 1:18.6 | Play the theme tune, Michael. |
| 1:22.5 | I got meals. |
| 1:25.0 | I got to pay. |
| 1:26.8 | So I'm going to work for it. I got a man. Martin Louis is here. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. And Martin Lewis is here. It's Wednesday. And Martin, firstly, a change in diet. |
| 1:46.2 | What are you eating for lunch today? |
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