How to turn £800 into £5,500

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Martin Lewis Podcast is here. Founder of Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis answers your financial questions including is a dehumidifier a cost effective way to dry clothes? Is it cheaper to use an oven, air-fryer or microwave? This week, Martin has an urgent plea for those aged between 45 and 70. As you could be missing years off your state pension worth £1,000s, so check now. Elsewhere in the show, ‘Tell Us’ have you re-gifted gifts. What was it? Did it backfire? Plus Martin’s podcast exclusive money-saving tips and the cheapest shop to buy Baileys this week.

Producer: Isabelle Tudor, Laura Harmes Editors: Will Cooper, Tom Green, and Ben Sears

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast. I wonder what that's all going to be about.
0:11.3	Now, usually much of this comes from my five-live show with Nahal, but there's no Nahal this week because of the World Cup.
0:18.2	Not that they're playing the World Cup, more that Nahal's off in Qatar,
0:21.6	where he's the water boy for the England team. If they need to spit out their water bottles,
0:25.9	he's there ready with his spittoon to collect up the backwash. Nihal, we salute you, sir.
0:32.5	So what's in the show? Well, the big story is if you're age 45 to 70,
0:36.2	how you may be able to turn £800 into over
0:38.9	£5,000 due to the state pension, but it's a short-lived window, so you need to listen and listen
0:45.2	relatively quickly. There'll also be the tellers on regifting heaven and hell, the Battle of the Cheap
0:50.3	Bayleys, children-saving versus premium bonds, plus what I told MPs about scam ads
0:56.6	and how they can be trusted or not, as you'll hear. Let's get on with the show.
1:01.5	I got bills. I got to pay. So I'm going to work for a world every day. I got not. I've got to be. I've got to make sure everybody is.
1:16.5	Now with No Nihal, don't worry, I'm not the only voice in the program today.
1:20.8	Joining me is PPI, podcast producer Isabel.
1:24.8	Isabel, you've been going through what's been coming in for the show.
1:27.0	Have you got anything interesting this week?
1:28.7	Yeah, this one's amazing from Adam.
1:30.8	So he says to you, hi, Martin.
1:32.9	I just felt inspired to thank you for your advice.
1:36.1	I've been listening to your podcast for two weeks and have already saved
1:39.6	$3,728.
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