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Wake Up To Money

Hacked off

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Car giant Jaguar Land Rover has been hit by a cyber-attack, which the company says has "severely disrupted" vehicle production as well as its retail operation. Sean Farrington has the latest.

Elsewhere, Hyrox, a global hybrid fitness race, has grown remarkably over the last few years. We explore what it’s like to take part.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism.

0:09.0

In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero?

0:16.0

Simply doing your job, being a decent human being.

0:20.0

A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by

0:23.1

their own light and that light is to be recognized by others. The long history of heroism with me,

0:28.6

Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:37.2

Wake up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:40.3

Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.

0:42.3

Borrowing costs for the UK government are up.

0:44.7

Jaguar Land Rover is the latest company to be hit by a cyber attack.

0:49.1

And news overnight that Google's parent company won't be forced by US authorities to sell its Chrome browser.

0:56.2

And we'll be taking a look at the growing trend of competitive exercise in one of our reporters has put herself to the test.

1:03.5

Wake up to Money with Sean Farrington.

1:06.4

Good morning. It is Wake Up to Money on this Wednesday morning, the 3rd of September. It's not far off 20 to 6.

1:15.0

Thank you for being with us this morning. Lots to discuss, including the cost of borrowing for the UK government.

1:22.5

You may notice a fair few headlines around at the moment.

1:25.1

And as we've had a bit of a reshuffle in the team at the top of government around the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, their advisors, those working closest with them.

1:35.0

As we discussed on Wake Up to Money yesterday, many looking to the budget in a few months' time in the middle of autumn where, or towards the end of autumn, it looks set

1:45.9

to be, perhaps, where we will find out about those tax decisions, the spending decisions,

1:51.5

the borrowing decisions as well. And so investors right around the world make a judgment on the

1:56.4

UK, not just on those things. There's other things to take into account as well about how much it

2:01.6

should charge the UK government to borrow money because we do pretty much every year need to

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