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The Martin Lewis Podcast

Lower energy standing charges | Urgent Holiday Checks (Passports, Insurance, Currency, Car Hire & more)

The Martin Lewis Podcast

BBC

Business

4.2789 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Martin with a special episode looking at new lower standing charge tariff from EDF, everything you need to know about travel finance – from insurance to car hire - and a ‘Tell Us’ analysing some common financial misunderstandings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly name, the Martin Lewis podcast.

0:09.5

I do wonder what that's going to be about.

0:11.4

Now, usually, much of it comes from a BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal Arthur Nyaka,

0:16.3

but this week with the Euros on, it's a podcast-only special.

0:20.6

Woo!

0:21.3

Just for you.

0:22.4

If you're listening to the radio on a Wednesday, you won't have heard this,

0:26.2

so you can be all excited about the topics of today's pod.

0:31.5

Scores of tips to cut the cost of summer holidays abroad,

0:34.1

from crucial passport and e-hit checks,

0:36.9

to cheap foreign currency, how to navigate

0:39.2

car hire traps, cut the cost of travel insurance, cheap airport parking, roaming abroad, and much more.

0:47.1

Plus, finally, cheaper energy standing charges, with a new tariff that cuts them.

0:54.5

The tellers this week is all about people's worst financial misunderstandings and how it affected

0:59.7

them.

1:00.9

And we've got our first ever listener mastermind.

1:05.2

How will Mark do on a credit card consumer rights question?

1:12.0

Play the theme tune.

1:29.8

I got meals. I got to pay. So I'm going to make sure everybody is.

1:35.8

Hello, welcome to the show before we get into the travel tips. I just want to do a quick heads up about a new energy tariff that's launched. And the reason I'm leading on this is because

1:41.5

it has discounted standing charges. Perhaps the biggest cause of

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