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Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The boss of Next warns of a "dramatic fall" in entry level opportunities in the UK. Elsewhere, the government launches a review into early years childcare - and we get the latest on how a US deal with Iran could impact global oil markets.
We also hear from the former chief executive of Aston Villa about how relegation could hit West Ham's finances.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:09.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:12.1 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:17.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:23.6 | we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database. |
| 0:28.8 | They did know that I was different. |
| 0:31.7 | You had kids together. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.5 | Then you met. |
| 0:34.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:35.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:36.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.7 | Wake up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:43.1 | Hello, welcome to a sweltering wake up to money. |
| 0:46.6 | We've got the boss of the retail giant next, telling us that work opportunities for young people have dramatically fallen as applications double for entry |
| 0:56.3 | level jobs. Clearly at the top of the mind of some of our top bosses at the moment after the |
| 1:01.1 | Amazon boss told us last week that work experience was crucial. Like your thoughts, please. Elsewhere, |
| 1:06.1 | we're going to find out why the education secretary is asking the competition watchdog to look into how much nurseries |
| 1:12.6 | are charging parents for extras like food and sun cream and... |
| 1:16.6 | West Ham United, five miles away, will be relegated from the Premier League for a third time. |
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