Energy special: Llandudno live
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
As energy bills rise, Paul Lewis and the team are in North Wales for a special programme focusing on the cost of living. The team will be joined by guests offering advice and support to those struggling to pay their energy bills, afford the cost of food and manage their money. Broadcasting live from the heart of Llandudno, we’ll hear directly from those facing a difficult winter and look at what help is available. Our reporter Dan Whitworth is also in Bethesda, a community leading the way on generating its own energy and learning how to use less.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Sandra Hardial Producer: Clare Worden Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 1130am Saturday 1st October, 2022)
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| 0:43.4 | Hello, welcome to this special hour-long edition of Moneybox, live from Klan Didno in North Wales. |
| 0:50.2 | We're concentrating on energy prices and the cost of living crisis. |
| 0:54.3 | We'll hear how those things are affecting people here and from local organisations who are helping and advising them. |
| 1:00.4 | Our reporter Dan Whitworth is in Bethesda. |
| 1:02.7 | That's a community leading the way on generating its own electricity. |
| 1:07.0 | And a lot of that electricity is green electricity, Paul. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm in the middle of a beautiful wooded valley right right beside the river Ogwin, coming down from Snowdonia National Park. |
| 1:17.0 | Microhydro schemes harness the power of this river to generate enough electricity for hundreds of homes. |
| 1:22.9 | Find out what the community is doing with that power in just a few minutes. |
| 1:27.4 | I'll also be looking at problems with mortgages. |
| 1:30.5 | You know, if it doubled, then that's my whole wage nearly gone in just the mortgage payment. |
| 1:37.8 | And we'll mark Moneybox's 45th birthday with the help of the Mile Gunn Mail Voice Choir. We start, though, with those energy |
| 1:46.6 | price rises. From today in England, Scotland and where I am in Wales, they are rising. I know |
| 1:52.3 | it's been called a freeze with an annual cap of £2,500 a year, but that is not how it works. It is the |
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