Flu season
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Felicity Hannah hears how businesses can respond to staff calling in sick during the flu outbreak, and why some pharmacies are experiencing a shortage of vaccines. And, with just ten days left until Christmas, the director of a shopping centre tells us whether Gen Z is driving a resurgence of the in-person retail experience.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Greg Jenner here, host of You're Dead to Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it. |
| 0:13.4 | This Christmas, forget about socks. We've got the best present of all. |
| 0:17.2 | Dead people! |
| 0:18.2 | All that sounds like zombies. Sorry, it's not zombies. Let me start again. |
| 0:21.8 | In our new family-friendly podcast series, dead funny history, historical figures come back to life |
| 0:26.8 | but just long enough to argue with me, tell their life stories and sometimes get on my nerves. |
| 0:31.8 | You're dead to me. |
| 0:32.8 | Dead funny history. |
| 0:34.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.9 | Wake up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. This year, festive season and flu season have arrived |
| 0:45.6 | at the same time. As Christmas approaches, record numbers are falling ill. We'll be speaking |
| 0:51.0 | to a human resources expert to find out what bosses need to know |
| 0:54.9 | how they can manage it among their workforce |
| 0:56.9 | and we'll hear it from a pharmacist about how the supply of those all-important vaccines is being managed. |
| 1:02.8 | But if you are well enough to get out and shop, is this you? |
| 1:05.8 | Now people are trying to find little happiness where they come. |
| 1:08.5 | Research suggests younger shoppers are more inclined |
| 1:10.9 | to impulse buy. And it seems they're falling back in love with real shops, bricks and mortar. |
| 1:16.1 | We'll chat to a shopping centre boss about what that means for retailers. |
| 1:19.9 | Wake Up to Money with Felicity Hannah. Good morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money on Monday |
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