Life lessons for all ages! A warning if you’ve booked a holiday, and no standing charge tariffs?
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Martin Lewis tells us his four life lessons he gave to graduates recently, so we asked you for yours! Plus, Martin’s annual warning if you’ve booked a holiday, an update to Ofgem’s no standing charge tariff for energy, and Mastermind is all about borrowing: does the length of a loan matter more than the interest rate? You’ll have to listen to find out! If you want to ask Martin a question, you can! His Question Time podcast lets you ask Martin absolutely anything and everything (within reason!). So, if you’ve always wanted to know his go-to dance move, if he knows the secret to parallel parking, or have a very complicated question about your finances, email it to MartinLewisPodcast@bbc.co.uk.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:08.1 | You need to get your travel insurance, ASAB. |
| 0:13.7 | You're the lucky one, and you should get back. |
| 0:15.7 | This is my five minutes of processing time. |
| 0:18.0 | If I'd bothered you at that time, you would have certainly told me to Bell Top. |
| 0:21.1 | You triggered me a bit, you know. That's done with love and kindness. Toploff. Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast. I do wonder what that's going to be about. Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Child. but but there's also bonus money saving tips just for you |
| 0:39.0 | lucky, lucky podcast listeners. In today's pod, an important warning for anyone who's booked or is |
| 0:44.5 | booking a holiday abroad at the moment. Then the big one, life lessons, four from me, but most from |
| 0:50.7 | you. With the wisdom of experience, what lessons have you learnt |
| 0:55.0 | that you'd wish to tell your younger self, |
| 0:57.2 | whether money issues, work issues or more? |
| 0:59.5 | It is a fascinating listen, whatever your age. |
| 1:02.3 | This week's Mastermind is all about personal loan interest |
| 1:05.5 | and to finish. |
| 1:06.9 | Where are OffGEMs promised new low or no standing charge energy tariffs? |
| 1:12.5 | Play the theme tune. |
| 1:27.4 | We have some stopcock news? |
| 1:30.3 | We can always have a bit of stopcock news. |
| 1:32.5 | There's never too little time for a stopcock. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm going to remind that this, that the second syllable there are always auto correct. |
| 1:42.3 | Wait, don't autocorrect. It just gets blanked out by our... |
| 1:44.9 | Stop mail chicken if you want to write it. |
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