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Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington talks to a former postmaster for his thoughts on Horizon computer boss's appearance before MPs yesterday. Why won't Fujitsu say how much they'll contribute to the Post Office redress scheme? South East Water was also in front of MP's yesterday following a water outage in Tunbridge Wells which left thousands of homes without drinking water. We check back in with a business owner whose bar was left high and dry. And, the physical music market continued its resurgence in 2025. We talk to one of the UK's only cassette shops, to see what they think of the comeback.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.
0:05.7	Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.
0:12.7	But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,
0:18.2	The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials
0:22.2	from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. However, and maybe I'm
0:27.3	biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops
0:32.3	and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:39.4	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:41.5	The boss of Fujitsu in the UK has refused to tell MPs how much the company would contribute
0:46.1	to the post office scandal redress scheme.
0:48.9	We're going to get a postmaster's reaction to that.
0:51.1	Oil is below $60 a barrel after developments in Venezuela and physical media
0:56.3	continues to be back. Sales of vinyl CDs, particularly cassettes, growing faster than music
1:02.4	streaming in 2025. Wake up to money with Sean Farrington. Good morning to you. Wake up to
1:08.4	money on BBC 5 Live.
1:11.1	Hope you are well on this Wednesday morning, the 7th of January, where we are not far off, 226.
1:17.4	Plenty to chew over in the next 20 minutes or so.
1:21.6	There have various headlines this morning about the pub industry,
1:25.3	whether it is the potential changes that could well be on the way about driving safety rules and drink drive limits.
1:32.3	And some comments in the papers this morning that from page of the Telegraph, drink drive changes to kill off rural pubs will get into what that might mean.
1:42.9	Something we've talked about a little more widely
1:44.6	lately has been various changes for the hospitality sector to have to get used to in terms of
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