Question Time: Will my new husband need to pay for my daughter’s uni? Do high interest savings beat cash ISAs?
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In our Question Time podcast, Martin Lewis gives you answers on anything and everything, including: how to open savings accounts with limited ID, is there a way to make more cash from ISA bonuses, can I end my broadband contract if I’m moving house and does Martin prefer spaghetti hoops, or alphabetti spaghetti? 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.
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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. |
| 0:11.8 | This is our question time episode in which I answer your questions about absolutely anything and everything, brackets within reason, close brackets. This week, |
| 0:22.6 | you ask me, does a cash-isor beat high-interest savings accounts? I've just got married. Will this |
| 0:29.5 | impact my daughter's student finance? Spoiler, yes. The system is broken. Makes me angry. |
| 0:36.1 | A moving house. Do I have to pay another 19 months on my existing broadband contract for them to let me go? |
| 0:42.3 | Is there a way to jemmy the system to get paid cash bonuses for transferring Isis? |
| 0:47.3 | Spoiler? I think so, yes. |
| 0:49.3 | How do you open savings accounts with limited ID? |
| 0:52.3 | And you also asked me, or Matt put to me, spaghetti |
| 0:55.6 | Hoops versus Alphabet spaghetti. |
| 0:58.5 | Play the theme tune. |
| 0:59.3 | I got my I got to feed So I'm going to make sure |
| 1:12.6 | Everybody is |
| 1:14.0 | Right welcome |
| 1:14.9 | Joining me is producer Matt |
| 1:17.1 | He is the curator of questions |
| 1:19.8 | Which is what I called you last week |
| 1:21.6 | I'm not sure I should say this |
| 1:22.9 | And then I worked out |
| 1:24.0 | I was going to do the acronym of it |
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