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Wake Up To Money

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Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

With two more sleeps until Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget, Will Bain discuses what could be in it and answer your questions leading up to it.

The Covid inquiry continues with a look at the financial action taken by the government to protect the economy -- we'll find out what we could expect from evidence given, including that by then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

With a record number of England cricket fans going to Australia to watch the Ashes, we speak to one of the businesses responsible for getting them there.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.

0:13.3

But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?

0:19.2

I remember having this very sharp thought

0:21.7

that what you do right now, this is it.

0:24.3

This defines your life.

0:26.0

I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.

0:28.4

I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this.

0:33.9

Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast.

0:37.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:39.5

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. Hello morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money. It's the week

0:45.3

we've trailed for some time now, two more sleeps until Rachel Reeves's autumn budget,

0:49.8

with some policy starting to form. We'll discuss what could be in it and answer your questions leading

0:54.9

up to it. Also today, the COVID inquiry continues with a look at the financial action taken by the

1:00.7

government to try and protect the economy. We'll find out what we could expect from evidence given,

1:05.1

including that by the then-Chancellor Rishi Suna. And with a record number of England

1:09.3

cricket fans heading to Australia to watch the ashes, or they hope so if it can last more than two days, we speak to one of the businesses responsible for getting them there. Wake Up to Money with Will Bain. Hello, morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money on Monday the 24th of November. We're with you this morning. I hope you enjoyed Big Boss interview. We've got the usual fare in a slightly truncated form for the rest of wake up to money this morning. So as always, we've got a panel of guests with us to look through those big stories and of course the budget dominating what a couple of days out now as well. Jane Foley is back with us. Jane's the head of FX Strategy at the Bank. Rabobank. Jane, morning. Great to

1:45.0

have you back on the program. Nice to be here. Thank you for having me. I can't stop.

1:49.6

It can't move, sorry, for budget coverage in the newspapers this morning. And every single

1:53.9

newspaper seems to have a different policy that they think may or may not be happening.

1:59.3

The Express, for example, here, pension is to lose £800 a year in Reeves' budget, they say. Labour's budget warning,

2:06.1

months of leaks of flatline. The economy says the Metro. If we drop down a little bit further here,

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