MBL: Travel Rights and Money
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What do you need to know about travel rights, money and insurance this summer?
Adam Shaw and guests answer your questions about the practicalities and costs of travelling this year. Are you considering a summer holiday? Have you rebooked a cancelled trip? How much is a PCR test, what does the travel traffic light system mean for your insurance and how do you get the best deal on your travel money?
e-mail [email protected] now with your questions and stories. If you’ve just returned from a trip we’d love to hear how you got on.
On the panel are:
Rory Boland, Travel Editor, Which? Helen Saxon, Money Saving Expert Graeme Trudgill, British Insurance Brokers’ Association
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this day, |
| 0:24.0 | who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
| 0:44.8 | There's been some added complications to booking a summer holiday this year. |
| 0:48.8 | It's not just about finding a great holiday or keeping all the family happy. |
| 0:52.3 | There's the risk that COVID-19 may scupper your plans. |
| 0:56.5 | If you're venturing overseas, extracepts are needed to make sure you get there and back safely. So let's begin with a trip to Rome. Moneybox listener, Lee, |
| 1:02.9 | has been in touch about his insurance worries over a planned trip to Italy in September. |
| 1:09.1 | Hello, Moneybox. My name is Lee Daines. I'm training to be an Anglican priest. |
| 1:13.6 | Each year the Church of England sends some of its seminarians like me abroad |
| 1:17.6 | on its international ecumenical placement scheme to learn more about other Christian denominations. |
| 1:23.6 | My placement this autumn is in Rome for three months. The unholy pickle I find myself in |
| 1:30.1 | is travel insurance. Online high street providers are very happy for me to buy a travel insurance policy from them, |
| 1:36.8 | but they won't pay out if something happens to me in Italy and I've travelled there against the UK |
| 1:42.1 | government's advice. Italy remains on the government's amber list presently. |
| 1:47.8 | I'm concerned about having adequate insurance coverage, of course, |
| 1:51.3 | but I'm much more concerned about the ethics of the situation. |
| 1:55.4 | I've read the small print. |
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