Swiftenomics

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Felicity Hannah delves into the Taylor Swift business empire as the superstar launches her latest album.

And our Friday panel unpicks the economic events of the week; including the Labour Party conference, the latest at Jaguar Land Rover, and rising energy bills.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:07.3	Right, you feeling ready? I'm feeling ready.
0:10.8	I'm Amal Rajin. Join me on my new podcast for in-depth conversations with pioneers and
0:16.0	innovators, talking about the trends and ideas that could help shape and change our future.
0:21.4	We are going to be digital citizens of this AI world, whether we like it or not.
0:26.2	From declining birth rates to disinformation online, can they solve the world's biggest challenges?
0:32.0	What I would love to do is go to the transfer and say radically cut the taxes of those with children.
0:37.3	Radical with me, Amal Rajan.
0:39.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:41.9	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:45.3	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:47.1	She is back.
0:48.1	Did she ever really go away?
0:49.4	So, oh, oh, phenomenon that is Taylor Swift.
1:01.8	Her new album was released just moments ago.
1:04.9	It's a big day for her.
1:06.1	It's a big day for the music industry.
1:07.9	We will look into, I'm going to use the word swiftonomics.
1:11.4	Also, this morning, we'll hear from the victim of a cryptocurrency scam.
1:15.7	I was just totally and ugly taken in.
1:18.0	I think it's a very embarrassing thing to say.
1:21.4	But yeah, I was suckered and I was groomed.
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