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Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What does success in the Winter Olympics mean for the popularity of the sports in the UK? Will Bain talks to the director of British curling and the managing director of some the country's biggest winter sports venues. We'll also be hearing from the creative director of the opening ceremony in Milan. And it's a hold on UK interest rates and jitters in the US stock markets over AI. Will Bain discusses what it all means on both sides of the Atlantic with our regular Friday panel.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.
0:05.6	Oh, hello. You have chosen a BBC podcast, but before you listen to it, we thought you might like our podcast too.
0:12.1	You might. You might. It is called Sightraught with me, Nick Grimshaw.
0:15.2	And me, Annie Mack. And we talk about the week in music.
0:18.2	All the news, all the cultural happenings in the UK and beyond.
0:22.2	And great guests.
0:23.3	And it's on BBC Sounds.
0:24.7	Yes, where you can also enjoy lots of playlists, music mixes and live radio.
0:29.9	Everything from my six music breakfast show to Radio 3 Unwind.
0:34.5	But obviously start with our podcast, sidetrack.
0:36.3	Obviously.
0:36.7	Obviously.
0:38.2	So if you like music, listen on BBC Sans.
0:40.9	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:44.3	Hello, morning.
0:45.2	Welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:46.2	The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, had some decent news for us yesterday.
0:50.3	Recent developments provide more confidence that inflation is on track to return to the target soon.
0:56.7	But not quite good enough news for interest rates to come down. Not yet, anyway. Our Friday panel are here to break all of that down for us today.
1:04.5	Also today, we'll look at a bumpy week for big tech shares as investors seem to get the jitters of the scale of spending on AI, and we're off
1:12.9	to the pieces of Italy.
1:20.4	One of the best theme tunes going, isn't it?
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