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Wake Up To Money

Fed up

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Will Bain takes a look at how a probe into the US central bank might unfold.

Elsewhere, new figures shed light on a tricky Christmas for retailers and Royal Mail looks to get in on the Stranger Things excitement.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan.

0:26.0

However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked.

0:30.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:36.1

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. Hello, morning. Welcome. Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:39.6

Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money.

0:41.6

Today, the British retail consortium say Christmas was drab for its members.

0:45.8

So why did the festive season pull flat in our shopping centres and on our high streets?

0:50.5

We'll be taking a look at that.

0:51.9

Also on the programme today, more trouble at the

0:54.3

world's biggest central bank, as three former heads of the US Federal Reserve voiced their concerns

0:59.6

about the bank's independence. We'll try and explain why all that matters and they've already

1:04.1

taken over everything from snacks to radio streams, but now the hit TV show, Stranger Things,

1:09.6

is getting into stamps.

1:11.5

We'll explain why.

1:14.4

Wake Up to Money with Will Bade.

1:18.4

Morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money on Tuesday, the 13th of January.

1:19.8

Just gone 5 o'clock in the morning.

1:20.6

Will with you this morning.

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