Summary
Will Bain takes a deep dive into the week's business and economic stories with our regular panel of expert guests. He'll be discussing the latest UK GDP figures and, in the week accessory chain Claire's calls in the administrators, he'll be asking our panel for their thoughts on the future of the British high street. Also, why the construction industry is proving to be one of our best drivers of growth. And the Premier League is back - but it's more expensive to watch than ever. As fans face another round of price hikes for tickets for the favourite teams, we'll be asking if the increases are fair.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:10.7 | It's Friday, which means we have our panel here to discuss the big stories of the week, |
| 0:15.5 | including the UK's latest economic growth figures, another big name in trouble on our high street, |
| 0:21.8 | and another pause in the trade war between the US and China. Also on the program this morning, the US pharmaceutical |
| 0:26.4 | company Eli Lilly has jacked up the price of its popular weight loss drug Monjarro in the UK. |
| 0:32.8 | We'll be taking a look at that. And also today, this is back to know. |
| 0:35.7 | Nothing beats the drama of a Premier League weekend. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah, the Premier League is back tonight, but at what cost, more than half the clubs |
| 0:44.3 | have put up their ticket prices for fans this season. |
| 0:47.7 | Wake Up to Money with Will Bain. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, hello morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money on Friday the 15th of August. Just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you this morning where we're going to have our usual Friday panel in just a moment picking through the big stories of the business week and there are plenty of them to do so. Here on the program once again, but we are going to look ahead, as we mentioned there, to the return of the Premier League tonight. |
| 1:12.3 | 8 o'clock is in it, Bournemouth and Liverpool get the new season back off and running again. |
| 1:16.9 | And we're going to talk ticket prices because last season, all the anger seemed to be around season ticket prices, didn't it? |
| 1:23.1 | But this season, could the new flashpoint be general admission tickets? Tickets for a single game |
| 1:29.0 | going for more than 70 quids? A lot of clubs this season, we will be hearing from the |
| 1:35.5 | ticketing lead for the Football Supporters Federation a little bit later on in the program. |
| 1:39.5 | And we'll also be digging in to the GDP numbers in a bit more detail that we were previewing on the program yesterday. |
| 1:45.2 | Asking what's going on in construction seemed to be one of the big winners in the numbers yesterday, |
| 1:49.1 | seemed a big, big boost in construction. We're going to try and work out what's going on. |
| 1:53.9 | Is that in housing? Is that in offices? Is that in those big infrastructure projects already |
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