Martin’s Savings Interest Masterclass: increase what you earn by up to 50%!
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Martin Lewis gives you his savings interest Masterclass, helping you maximise every penny. He covers cash ISAs, fixed savings, regular savers, putting money away for a home, how savings tax works, how safe savings are, and more! If you have a question for Martin, you can ask him in his Question Time podcast! Email your question to MartinLewisPodcast@bbc.co.uk and you could be on the show!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:13.0 | Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Childs, |
| 0:17.2 | but there's also lots of bonus money-saving tips for you. |
| 0:20.6 | Lucky, lucky podcast listeners, |
| 0:22.7 | I should cocoa. In today's pod, it's a savings masterclass. How to maximise your interest, |
| 0:29.0 | all about cash isas, the 25% boost on lifetime ices, earn 7% interest on regular savings accounts, |
| 0:35.5 | get a 50% boost if you can open a help to save account. |
| 0:39.0 | How tax on savings interests works? How do you pay tax on savings interests? How safe |
| 0:43.8 | savings and so much more. Plus, hurrah and huzzar. It looks like, finally, financial education |
| 0:53.4 | is to be taught in every state school in England. |
| 0:56.9 | This week's tell us, do you love your job? |
| 0:59.8 | And would you recommend it to others? |
| 1:01.6 | And in the mastermind, I put our Adrian to the test on his knowledge of charity. |
| 1:07.3 | If you donate, can you claim some tax back? Let's get to it after a couple of hours. I went to the doctors this morning thinking, is it gout? Because that's what, you know, Google and others had told me. And I went in and she looked and she said, no, it's a bite. I think it's an infected spider bite. Now, on one hand, I've got some topical |
| 2:01.6 | antibiotics. I'll be putting it on. You know, you don't want it. It's painful. On the other hand, |
| 2:06.1 | it might be a radioactive spider. Maybe next week I'll be able to sling webs and slings shot off |
| 2:12.4 | buildings and fly through the sky. So there's a little bit of excitement in my Marvel household, |
| 2:35.0 | but I may, you know, things might be about to change. I mean, not all superheroes wear capes. Spider-Man doesn't, but I might, you know. Okay. And can I have a look at this toe before the... I think you can, we'll do it in the news, news period. All right, okay. Looking forward to that. Before we get on to the savings. |
| 2:36.4 | Only if you get mastermind right. |
| 2:50.1 | If you get mastermind right, I'll show you my tone. That's my pride. Every week you show me a part of your body. Let's not go there. That's not what it's there. I was specific on tow, mate. You were. Before we get to the Savings Masterclass, |
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