Down the drain

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Felicity Hannah hears from businesses in Kent experiencing water outages in the heatwave. Plus, we go behind the scenes of a data centre in London to find out if they're putting the UK on the map when it comes to AI.

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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.
0:43.4	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. We hit a brutal milestone this week. More than one million young people aren't in employment, education or training. That's according to new figures. It's the highest level in 12 years.
0:56.9	The numbers came out on the same day. The former Minister Alan Milburn warned we're at risk of a lost
1:02.0	generation. So we'll talk about why businesses aren't getting young people in and what that
1:06.7	means for the economy. Also this morning, thousands of people in Kent have been hit with water
1:11.2	outages during the heat wave. We'll hear from one salon owner about what it's meant for her
1:15.5	business. And AI OK? With data centres popping up across the country, we've been behind the scenes
1:21.5	at one in London to find out how AI ready the UK really is.
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