MBL: Your rights when a dream holiday becomes a nightmare experience
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What are your rights when that dream holiday you've saved up for gets cancelled or you experience problems during the holiday itself? Paul Lewis and guests answer your calls and emails.
Guests: the travel journalist Simon Calder and consumer champion Helen Dewdney.
Email: moneybox@bbc.co.uk
Producer: Ben Carter Editor: Emma Rippon
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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? |
| 0:21.4 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
| 0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.6 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:37.1 | Gosh, I could do with the holiday, sitting on a beach, trekking in the hills, no phone calls, |
| 0:42.2 | blissful relaxation away from all my problems. |
| 0:45.5 | But it doesn't always work out like that. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm a single mum of three girls. |
| 0:50.2 | It's a holiday of a lifetime for us. |
| 0:52.2 | And now it looks like we're not going this year, which obviously my girls are quite disappointed. It was going to be the first time on an aeroplane, |
| 0:57.8 | first time abroad. And until I get that money back, I can't do anything. |
| 1:01.8 | More on Sarah's problem later, because today Moneybox Live looks at holiday nightmares, |
| 1:07.8 | things that have gone horribly wrong with that dream vacation. And of course, |
| 1:11.6 | thousands of people planning a trip to see the Great Wall of China or the terracotta warriors |
| 1:15.8 | must have woken up this morning to hear that foreign and Commonwealth office has advised against |
| 1:20.4 | all but essential travel to mainland China and British Airways has cancelled all its flights |
| 1:25.7 | to that country. Well, let's speak to one of them, I think. |
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