Easy as GDP

Wake Up to Money

BBC

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Will Bain looks ahead to the latest UK GDP data. Plus, how could Donald Trump's tariffs impact the Scottish whisky industry?

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
0:11.4	But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.
0:15.4	I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into
0:19.2	a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:30.0	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.2	that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds.
0:40.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:45.1	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:48.1	Hello, morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:50.3	Coming up today with growth figures out today for the UK economy.
0:55.1	We'll be taking a look at what they might mean for the public finances and explore, of course, how we get the economy
0:59.4	growing again. Also this morning, the Scottish whiskey industry sold nearly a billion pounds
1:03.8	worth of goods to the US last year. So what do distillers think about the possibility of a trade
1:09.3	tariff war spiraling? And 30 years ago today,
1:12.1	Tesco launched a new loyalty scheme. The Club Card will find out how it came to be, how it helped
1:17.0	shape the supermarket loyalty car battle we still see today.
1:20.9	Wake up to Money with Will Bain. Morning, welcome to wake up to money on Thursday the 13th of
1:27.4	February.
1:27.8	Just gone 5 o'clock in the morning.
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