The Shipping Forecast
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A tentative two-week ceasefire in the Middle East has seen global oil and gas prices cool, but how easy will it be to convince shipping companies the Strait of Hormuz is now safe to navigate? Sean Farrington investigates. The conflict has also sparked an interest in electric vehicles in the UK. The boss of the country's biggest car sales platform tells us why Chinese EV manufacturers could be the biggest beneficiaries. And, running a Marathon is quite a feat. But that's not enough for the boss of London's big race. He tells us why they're expanding abroad.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Their company's success helped build a nation. |
| 0:10.9 | The company is such a big part of Korea's economy. |
| 0:13.5 | But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants? |
| 0:17.2 | They often say, look, we built the nation. |
| 0:19.2 | And without us, South Korea as it exists today, |
| 0:22.6 | would simply not be here. Inheritance, Samsung explores the real-life dramas of the Lee family |
| 0:28.3 | and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.7 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:44.3 | A shipping expert tells us just what it will take to get the oil flowing through the straight of Hummus. |
| 0:45.4 | Again, the oil shock has had other impacts too. |
| 0:48.2 | Electric vehicle inquiries looking to buy them either new or used have really spiked like up 30%. |
| 0:54.8 | The boss of the UK's biggest car selling platform tells us about his surprise at the growth of |
| 0:59.0 | Chinese electric vehicles and we'll be talking to the marathon boss who plans to stay the distance |
| 1:04.2 | as far as Frankfurt in fact. |
| 1:06.5 | Wake up to Money with Sean Farrington. |
| 1:08.9 | Good morning to you. Wake Up to Money on BBC 5 live. It's Thursday morning, the 9th of April. It's just after 5 o'clock. Lots to chat through today. If you've got a marathon lined up, a big charity event, you might be just doing an extreme bit of exercise for your own challenge, whatever it might be. |
| 1:28.9 | Something that's cropped up a little bit. |
| 1:30.3 | When we did a bit of a business of sports series and wake up to money, last year, |
| 1:35.7 | we heard how these events are becoming more popular. |
| 1:40.0 | People are keen for different aspects of sport or exercise in their life, doing them as groups, |
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