Rolls Royce eyes no.1 spot

Wake Up to Money

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Business

4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The CEO of Rolls Royce tells the BBC it has the potential to become the biggest company in the UK, thanks to its expansion into areas like building narrow-body aircraft and small-scale nuclear reactors. Plus, presenter Sean Farrington and his guests digest the latest UK jobs data and look at the cost of food – and in particular, the cost of feeding children over the summer holidays.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:09.0	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:11.1	Might the government use individuals' inheritance tax as a way to raise money in this year's budget?
0:16.8	Reports are plenty that it's been looked at, so we'll do the same.
0:19.7	The energy needed to power AI could in turn power rolls Royce to greater heights as the tech
0:25.2	world turns to its nuclear reactors.
0:28.2	And with food inflation at its highest rate for more than a year or a half, we're going to have
0:31.5	a look at what that means for families during the school holidays.
0:34.9	Wake Up to Money with Sean Farrington.
0:37.8	Good morning to you.
0:39.4	It is Wake Up to Money on BBC Five Live this Wednesday morning.
0:43.2	The 13th of August, it's just coming up to 25 to 6.
0:48.3	Thank you for being with us this morning.
0:49.6	8505.8 is the number as ever to use to get in touch with us.
0:54.9	And you may be interested in further developments,
0:58.4	what might be coming in the budget later this year,
1:01.3	being reported across a lot of the papers this morning,
1:03.6	that inheritance tax rises in other areas.
1:06.5	We've discussed them previously for various businesses
1:09.6	in the past with the last budget, but
1:12.9	you know, the Guardian, the Mail and the Telegraph, all picking up on reports that Treasury
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