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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Martin Lewis takes you through the increase to tuition fees.
There’s advice for students and those affected by the fall in interest rates.
Tell Us is all about the most impulsive purchase you’ve made, and why you regret it.
And there’s a special Mastermind for Adrian concerning floral shirts.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast. |
0:08.4 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
0:10.5 | Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Childs, |
0:14.3 | but there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
0:19.0 | In today's pod, news this week that tuition fees are due to go up |
0:22.9 | in England next year as are maintenance loans. So why I want to decode what this really means |
0:28.1 | for the cost of university, how the university system works? Is it still affordable? Should you still |
0:33.1 | go? The parents have to contribute. And why it's better to think of it as an extra tax, |
0:38.1 | not cheap, but an extra tax rather than a loan, and so much more. |
0:43.2 | We'll also be talking about the fact interest rates have been cut by 0.25 percentage points |
0:47.9 | and a quick run-through of what this means for mortgage holders and savers. |
0:52.2 | And this week's tell us, what's the worst impulse by you've ever made? |
0:57.0 | Hamsters, camper vans, 20p-pieces and whims all come up. |
1:02.0 | Play the theme tune. |
1:04.0 | I got bills, I gotta pay. Should we'll make So I'm going to work for |
1:12.6 | I'm going to pay |
1:13.6 | I got a lot |
1:15.6 | I got to feed |
1:17.6 | So I'm going to make sure |
1:20.2 | Everybody is |
1:21.7 | Let's do interest rates |
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