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Wake Up To Money

Room at the Inn?

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How has this Christmas worked out for the hospitality business? Will Bain talks festive trade with a hotelier. Also, we talk about some new research into the jobs market ... AND, if you've left your Christmas shopping to the last minute, we have help at hand. A personal shopper gives us some tips on late buys.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

Hello, Greg Jenner here, host of You're Dead to Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.

0:13.4

This Christmas, forget about socks. We've got the best present of all.

0:17.2

Dead people!

0:18.2

All that sounds like zombies. Sorry, it's not zombies. Let me start again.

0:21.8

In our new family-friendly podcast series, dead funny history, historical figures come back to life

0:26.8

but just long enough to argue with me, tell their life stories and sometimes get on my nerves.

0:31.8

You're dead to me.

0:32.8

Dead funny history.

0:34.1

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:37.1

Wake up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:40.3

Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money. At the end of what's been a tough year for UK business, we'll be talking business confidence and job prospects. What's next for the UK economy?

0:50.3

On the morning after the Friday night before, we'll be hearing from a hotelier about

0:54.7

whether the festive spirit is alive and well in the run-up to Christmas, and is this you?

0:59.5

I'll leave it to the last minute and just come out and try and do it all in one go.

1:04.6

If it is, have no fear. We've got good advice on last-minute buys from a personal shopper.

1:09.8

Wake up to Money with Will Bain. Hello morning again then to Wake Up to Money on Monday the 22nd of December. We're with you this morning. Hope you enjoyed Big Boss interview with Mark Constantine. I can see if a lot of your texts have been coming in while we were playing that bit of the podcast. Out, we'll get to those in a moment as well.

1:27.6

But we got plenty of other stuff to chat about this morning too.

1:29.7

We were teeing it up on Friday, weren't we?

1:31.6

Mad Friday.

1:32.9

One of the busiest days of the year for the hospitality industry.

1:36.8

So we'll drop in on that, see how that went.

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