Fuel for thought
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We hear the fears and frustrations of staff and suppliers to the Vivergo bio-ethanol plant on the eve of its closure. Also, Sean Farrington talks to a key figure in the Kyiv community ahead of Presidents Zelensky and Trump's crucial meeting later today. And, cloud computing and robotics. Is the UK falling behind in the race to develop the key tech industries of the future? One UK sector where business is booming is air condition installation. Sean speaks to a business making hay while the sun shines.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello, welcome. |
| 0:09.9 | It is Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:11.4 | All eyes today on the meeting between President Trump and Zelensky |
| 0:15.6 | and the so-called Coalition of the Willing many European leaders involved as well. |
| 0:22.1 | We're getting insight into the mood in Kiev from the voice of US business in Ukraine. Key business partners, of course, in all of |
| 0:29.8 | this. The UK's largest bioethanol plant begins its permanent shutdown today, a victim of the trade |
| 0:37.0 | talks and agreements between the UK and the US. |
| 0:39.7 | It seems, so says the industry, that have opened the gates to US imports into the UK. |
| 0:45.5 | We spent a day at the plant as it prepared to wind down operations. |
| 0:49.2 | We'll hear what it means for workers and those industries who relied on it. |
| 0:53.1 | It's incredibly heartbreaking. It's a huge part of my life. I've made a lot of friends here. And industries who relied on it. It's incredibly heartbreaking. |
| 0:54.6 | It's a huge part of my life. |
| 0:56.3 | I've made a lot of friends here, and it's part of the community around here as well. |
| 0:59.9 | And as interesting air conditioning installation rockets, while we sweltering the heat in some parts of the UK. |
| 1:06.4 | I'll be speaking to a business making hay while the sun shines. |
| 1:10.1 | Wake up to Money with Sean Farrington. |
| 1:13.0 | Good morning to you. It is. Wake up to money on BBC 5 Live on this Monday morning, |
| 1:18.3 | the 18th of August, just after 5 o'clock. I hope you are well, whether you are in the middle |
| 1:24.4 | of your working week. You may be just starting it in the traditional way |
| 1:28.8 | on a Monday morning up an atom ready for the commute in the middle of your holiday |
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