Cloudy with a chance of growth?

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington hears why the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has upgraded UK growth but warns Rachel Reeves that higher taxes and tight spending plans risk squeezing households and slowing the recovery - with unemployment rising.

And Ofsted have released their first AI report, which says classroom tech is barely improving results, yet teachers fear pupils who don’t learn AI tools could lose out in the jobs market - Sean looks at the details.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
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0:20.7	Do you think this is actually going to go to trial?
0:22.8	That cast light on shady cyber criminals,
0:24.9	mysterious drownings and unsolved murders, from Bergen to Belfast.
0:29.0	I didn't know who I could trust.
0:30.8	Search, true crime on BBC Sounds.
0:33.3	The only thing left to do now is Ron.
0:38.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:43.1	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:46.2	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:48.3	Business sentiment, cautious, hiring levels low.
0:51.3	So what does that mean for redundancies?
0:53.6	We'll see what the knock-on
0:55.5	effect for that is. Also, once the world's biggest advertising company. Now, Britain's
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