Question Time: Is paying via PayPal a bigger risk? How to do a budget? Has the government ever told Martin to stay schtum?
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In our Question Time podcast, Martin takes your questions on anything and everything, including: how to compare electric vehicle tariffs, why bank accounts lie, how an 18-year-old builds credit, and is your will invalid after you get married?
If you’ve got a question for Martin on absolutely anything and everything, you can ask him in his Question Time podcast! Email your question to MartinLewisPodcast@bbc.co.uk.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello and welcome to the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:12.3 | And this is the Question Time podcast, |
| 0:14.9 | in which I answer your questions about absolutely anything and everything within reason. |
| 0:21.3 | This week, you asked me, |
| 0:23.4 | what's the best way to budget? |
| 0:25.2 | And I warn you that your bank account is a little liar. |
| 0:29.0 | Is paying on a credit card via PayPal a bigger risk? |
| 0:32.5 | How do I compare electric vehicle energy tariffs? |
| 0:36.1 | How does an 18-year-old build their credit score? |
| 0:39.5 | Are wills invalid after marriage? |
| 0:42.0 | And you asked me, has the government ever told you, |
| 0:45.4 | i.e. me, Martin, you need to stay quiet. |
| 0:49.2 | Play the theme tune. |
| 0:50.0 | I got meals. I got to pay. |
| 1:07.8 | Someone going to work for producer Matt. Hello. our question time podcast and here with me is the curator of the questions himself podcast producer |
| 1:13.5 | Matt. Hello. That was it. I gave you a big build of him. You just do, hello, hello. All right. |
| 1:18.3 | We'll do some questions then. I know. Well, I was going to talk about, I don't know if you really |
| 1:22.7 | care, but I was cutting up a cabbage yesterday and I've got purple nails because the red cabbage dyed my nails. |
| 1:29.2 | I don't care. What's your question? |
| 1:31.8 | Mandy, we'll start with Mandy. She's emailed a question in to Martin Lewis podcast at BBC.com. |
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