4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.6 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the 8 tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take |
0:13.3 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.7 | And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:21.2 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | Music Music |
0:36.0 | My cast away this week is the financial expert TV presenter and campaigner Martin Lewis. |
0:50.1 | 17 years ago he founded the website Money Saving Expert. |
0:54.0 | His campaigns on issues like money and mental health and court victories over bank charges |
0:59.0 | and PPI have made headline news. |
1:01.9 | Successful crusades on the behalf of the consumer have earned him the nickname the Dumbledore |
1:07.0 | of debt. |
1:08.0 | 13 million of us receive his weekly money tips mail out, whether he still uses them |
1:12.8 | himself as a question we'll get to later. |
1:15.3 | He sold his shares in Money Saving Expert back in 2012 for £87 million. |
1:21.0 | While saving money maybe second nature, he's no scrooge. |
1:24.4 | His charitable trust gives vast sums to good causes. |
1:28.1 | Most recently he set up a coronavirus poverty fund to help charities to continue to support |
1:33.4 | those in need. |
1:34.4 | Britain's financial superhero has never been needed more, but our superheroes born or |
1:40.3 | made. |
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