Keeping an eye on energy

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington hears from experts on how the US-Israeli war could hit UK electricity prices and speaks with travellers who have been stuck in Dubai. Elsewhere, we speak with the boss of Holland and Barrett about why the company has changed more than half of its range of wellness products in the last two years.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	I'm no longer ravenous. I'll no longer eat until I fall asleep.
0:11.0	The Hunger Game, a new five-part series exploring the meteoric rise of weight loss drugs.
0:16.0	It's been an incredible story with these drugs.
0:18.1	The uptake, the amount of product that's been sold, the amount of money
0:21.2	is cost. What the drugs do, how they work, and the knock-on effects of their widespread use.
0:26.5	We'll be sitting here in three years' time going, oh, it caused problems that we're now going to have to fix.
0:32.3	The Hunger Game with me, Professor Gilesio. Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:39.4	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:43.7	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:47.0	Hello, welcome.
0:48.1	It is Wake Up to Money.
0:49.9	Stock markets have bounced back.
0:52.4	Seems to be that investors have taken a little bit of a
0:55.2	breather for a day, at least a footsie 100 bounce back a little bit. The Asian stock markets
1:00.1	overnight have bounced back quite a fair bit. They fell a fair bit the day before as well.
1:04.2	Oil prices still at their highs. The gas price still a lot higher than it was, but was a little
1:08.9	bit lower. We'll get through all of this. Explain what it means, what it is. People are thinking about the prospects for this war in Iran as it goes into its sixth day. The ripple effects being felt right around the world. Some British nationals stranded in the Middle East started being flown home from Amman yesterday. It's not quite hit me. I'm going to stay at a shock.
1:28.2	It's quite surreal.
1:29.1	The plane had to take a slightly longer route to get around the conflict zone.
1:33.1	We'll check back in with one Brit still caught out in Doha as well.
1:36.7	Hear how the UK travel industry has been responding to it all.
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