Cool profits in a hot market

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As the UK continues to sizzle in the heat, retailers tell this programme about how sales of air conditioning units have spiked alongside temperatures.

Elsewhere we'll take a look at the plight of energy giant BP, who have sacked chairman - Albert Manifold.

We'll get all the latest market reaction to another day without a deal to end the war in Iran.

A butcher in the West Midlands tells us how the UK's Muslim community is preparing for Eid-Al-Adah.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift,
0:23.6	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.7	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:43.1	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money after a few hot days, sweaty nights.
0:48.0	Retailers tell this program about how sales of air conditioning units have spiked alongside the temperatures elsewhere.
0:55.2	We're going to have a look at the plight of the energy giant BP.
0:58.3	More turbulence at the top.
0:59.9	A chairman there, Albert Manifold removed from his position.
1:03.6	Less than a year after taking the job,
1:05.9	we'll get all the latest market reaction to more developments in the Middle East.
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