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Wake Up To Money

Test Target Trouble

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington looks at the long wait for a driving test in England, Scotland and Wales. Plus, what does England's performance in Australia mean for cricket clubs back here?

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,

0:24.0

Dead Funny History,

0:25.0

historical figures come back to life

0:26.8

but just long enough to argue with me,

0:28.7

tell their life stories,

0:29.7

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.

0:40.9

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:44.5

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:47.3

Hello, welcome it is Wake Up to Money.

0:57.1

We've got another twist in the latest business blockbuster reports this morning that Warner Brothers is going to tell its shareholders to reject that offer from Paramount Skydance.

1:02.0

It's going to say it is in favour of a tie-up with Netflix.

1:03.5

We'll have a look at why that is.

1:04.4

Is that the end of the battle?

1:11.7

What does that mean for all those huge box sets, movies historically in the future on our streaming in our cinemas.

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