The early bird catches the worm
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Are you part of the 5am club? What about the 4am club? We hear from some early risers on whether getting up early really can benefit your day.
A cyber attack continues to cause severe disruption to Jaguar Land Rover, with both production and sales of its cars affected. But it’s also affecting some repair garages who rely on the can no longer order new parts from JLR. Felicity Hannah speaks to the owner of one of them.
And we’re joined by our panel guests to look back at some of the business stories that have made the headlines this week.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism. |
| 0:09.0 | In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero? |
| 0:16.0 | Simply doing your job, being a decent human being. |
| 0:20.0 | A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by |
| 0:23.1 | their own light and that light is to be recognized by others. The long history of heroism with me, |
| 0:28.6 | Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:37.3 | Wake up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money, back to school, back to work for much of the UK this week after the summer holidays. |
| 0:47.6 | And what a week it has been. |
| 0:50.0 | We've got a date for the autumn budget. |
| 0:52.0 | There's been that giddiness in the guilt market. |
| 0:54.7 | Is that the right word? |
| 0:55.6 | And the rollout, of course, of more childcare support. |
| 0:58.5 | But there weren't many cars rolling off the Jaguar Land Rover production lines this week. |
| 1:03.2 | As that cyber attack continues to cause havoc, |
| 1:07.2 | we're going to talk to a repair shop boss who's been struggling to get parts. And we are |
| 1:12.3 | naturally early risers here and wake up to money, but does an early start boost productivity? |
| 1:17.7 | When you carve out that time in the morning, you kind of pay yourself first. And so now I can |
| 1:23.3 | move into my work with flow and focus. I don't know that I agree. We'll hear from the people |
| 1:27.8 | whose alarms are always set for between 4 and 5am and find out if a morning routine actually does |
| 1:33.6 | make a difference. Wake up to Money with Felicity Hannah. Good morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money |
| 1:40.6 | on Friday the 5th of September. It's just coming up to five minutes past five. |
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