Picking a new Apple
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sean Farrington looks back at Tim Cook's legacy as he plans to step down as Apple's boss after fifteen years. We also hear from petrol forecourts who have seen an uptick in customers driving off without paying.
Elsewhere, we speak with Robert Jenrick of Reform UK for the next instalment of our local election interviews - and discuss a new raft of new government clean energy measures.
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| 0:00.0 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, welcome. It is Wake Up to Money and it is the end of an era at one of the world's |
| 0:08.9 | biggest companies. I love Apple. That is Tim Cook, who is the successor, of course, to Steve Jobs |
| 0:16.7 | and has himself now stepped down as Apple's chief executive after nearly 15 years. |
| 0:22.8 | We'll get into who's replacing him what it's meant for Apple, |
| 0:26.3 | what it means for the next products that might be on the shelves, on our stores and what we might be buying next. |
| 0:32.2 | Meanwhile, at British petrol stations. |
| 0:34.2 | We're probably at five drive-offs per site per week now. We'll hear from |
| 0:38.5 | four court operators who have been seeing this uptick in customers driving off without paying |
| 0:43.6 | for their fuel. And we'll be speaking to Robert Gemrick of Reform UK in the next |
| 0:47.6 | instalment of our election interviews. Wake up to Money with Sean Farrington. Good morning to you. Welcome. |
| 0:55.1 | It is Wake Up to Money on BBC 5 live on this Tuesday morning, the 21st of April. |
| 1:00.9 | It is just after 5 o'clock. |
| 1:03.5 | Lots for us to chew over this morning, including developments in the world of energy production and supply in the UK. |
| 1:12.5 | We often talk about how higher energy prices in the UK for businesses, for households, |
| 1:19.5 | are often because of the link that we have here in the UK between our electricity prices |
| 1:24.8 | and the cost of gas and how often we need to use gas-powered plants |
| 1:30.8 | to provide our electricity can mean that the whole of the electricity system can end up costing |
| 1:36.8 | the price of very closely being linked to the price of gas very, very often, more often |
| 1:42.9 | than many would like. And there may be changes on the way about that link. |
| 1:47.4 | It would be interesting to hear and wake up to money today |
| 1:49.4 | about how that might work, something that's often been proposed |
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