Christmas Special: The best of Martin’s Money Mastermind!
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As it’s Christmas, Producer Matt has chosen his favourite questions Martin has challenged Adrian with on the podcast for this special Martin’s Money Mastermind episode, including questions on: returning faulty tech, gift aid, credit scores, retail gift aid, and direct debits. If you want to ask Martin a question, you now can! His Question Time podcast lets you ask Martin absolutely anything and everything (within reason!) – so if you’ve always wanted to know his favourite animal, if he knows any magic tricks, or have a very complicated question about your personal finances, email it to MartinLewisPodcast@bbc.co.uk.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello and welcome to the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:11.8 | And this is our festive special. |
| 0:14.3 | Yes, it's a best of mastermind podcast, |
| 0:17.1 | where podcast producer Matt has picked out his favourite masterminds |
| 0:20.7 | that I've challenged Adrian with since September. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh, the joys. |
| 0:26.8 | Me asking a question. |
| 0:28.6 | Adrian's sitting there looking bedazzled, confused and befuddled. |
| 0:33.3 | Play the thing,ching. |
| 0:34.3 | I got meals. |
| 0:36.9 | I got to pay. Someone don't work for a world at every day. play the theme tune. |
| 0:54.3 | I think at this, Adrian, we all need something a little bit more relaxing and a little bit more chilling. Rosie and I certainly do, but maybe not for you. Can we play the theme tune, please? |
| 1:00.4 | I want Rosie just to give me a... |
| 1:06.6 | She is not allowed to... Rosie will know the answer. She is not allowed to help you. Rosie, |
| 1:11.4 | well, poker face, please. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm just looking at you, Rosie. I'm listening to it. |
| 1:16.5 | So the score, Adrian, the mastermind score, where I ask you questions rather than you ask me questions, |
| 1:21.6 | is you currently have 11 right and 23 wrong in this three option multiple choice, which means it is now statistically |
| 1:29.8 | likely that if we had written the options on three scraps of paper, place them on the floor |
| 1:35.6 | beneath a three-toed sloth and each week picked whichever one it pooped on the most, that would |
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