Episode 3 - This is Money show with Share Radio
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week editor Simon Lambert and investigative reporter Lee Boyce explain how scammers are making thousands of pounds from your old mobile phones, how Lloyds bankers just can't stop the hard-sell and loads more of the big week’s big money stories
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
Producer: Georgie Frost
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| 0:00.0 | Consuming issues with Georgie Frost, making the pound in your pocket go that little bit further. |
| 0:13.1 | Thank you very much to Pascal. |
| 0:14.8 | She'll be back at half past 11 with the headlines. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Georgie Frost. |
| 0:19.1 | You're listening to consuming issues on Share Radio, |
| 0:21.8 | making that pound in your pocket go a little bit further. Now, this is money. This is the time to |
| 0:28.2 | discuss the financial issues that affect you with Simon Lambert, editor of This Is Money, |
| 0:33.1 | and members of his team of investigative reporters from the award-winning financial website and |
| 0:38.5 | money section of the mail online. Well, on behalf of us, the consumer, they investigate everything |
| 0:42.8 | from scams, bad banks, as well as how to keep costs down, and one of the best deals out |
| 0:49.2 | there. Well, Simon is joined today by one of his journalist Lee Boyce. Welcome you to. |
| 0:55.3 | Good morning. |
| 0:55.9 | Hi, Georgie. |
| 0:57.1 | We've been also asking today, we've got plenty coming up. |
| 1:00.2 | So let's talk about that. |
| 1:01.2 | There's a huge mobile phone scam that you're going to be telling us a lot more about. |
| 1:05.5 | Plus, you've been having a chat with TV property guru, Sarah Beanie, big fan of hers. |
| 1:10.6 | Now, we've also been asking today, and it means I'm going to have to ask you guys too. |
| 1:15.5 | As scientists in the US reckon they've developed a new lens, which allows 3D objects to become invisible. |
| 1:21.4 | I'm not sure if you've been investigating this story or not. |
| 1:23.9 | The research author says the technology could be scaled up. |
| 1:44.6 | I won't bore you with the tech details, mostly because I don't understand them. But however, it does mean that apparently we are a step closer to having an invisibility cloak like the one in Harry Potter. Apparently, so we're asking to say, of course, if you had a cloak of invisibility, where would you go? And what would you do? |
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