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Wake Up to Money

Holding on to what you've got

Wake Up to Money

BBC

Business

4.4754 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Will Bain talks to the boss of John Lewis about keeping employees in work. Elsewhere, the Fed keeps rates on hold and the Bank of England looks set to follow; and we take a look at how streaming companies take a TV show and make it a hit.

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

0:29.9

The brand new series of History's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.4

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0:40.5

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:43.9

Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money.

0:46.1

It's one of those central bank weeks.

0:48.0

We've got news overnight from the United States,

0:50.1

and later today we'll find out if the Bank of England

0:52.2

is also going to hold interest rates steady.

0:55.2

Also on the programme today, we've spoken a lot about people getting back into work this week,

0:59.6

but there's another side to that coin too.

1:01.5

One in five of us have got some kind of ill health condition.

1:04.2

And if we can do better in terms of keeping more of those people in work for longer,

1:09.2

the benefits are enormous.

1:10.8

Yeah, we'll hear more from Sir Charlie for longer, the benefits are enormous.

1:13.5

Yeah, we'll hear more from Sir Charlie Mayfield, the former boss of John Lewis,

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