This is Money show - inflation, deflation, phone call rip offs, £3bn mega-broadband and more
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Is the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, all talk or is he the Maradona of finance?
Also in the show...
What's going on with inflation?Why on earth is BT charging so much for calls to France?Why does a washing machine cost four times more for the poor?What's next for all-in-one media services?Plus an update on pensioner bonds.
This week's entertaining investigations are brought to you by Share Radio's star presenter Georgie Frost and This is Money's Simon Lambert and Rachel Rickard Straus. With Lee Boyce calling in from This is Money HQ.
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
Producer: Georgie Frost
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm, welcome to consuming issues here on Share Radio. I'm Georgie Frost. |
| 0:23.9 | Here every weekday from 9 until 1 with my producer Annie Weston on digital online and through the Share Radio mobile app, |
| 0:31.0 | making that pound in your pocket go a little bit further. |
| 0:33.7 | Now this is the time of the week where we welcome the team from This Is Money. |
| 0:36.8 | That's the award-winning financial website and money section of the mail online into the consuming issue studio. |
| 0:43.4 | With me today, editor Simon Lambert is here with journalist Rachel Rickard Strauss. |
| 0:48.8 | Lee Boyce back at the This Is Money HQ for their weekly catch-up where they'll be talking about the stories |
| 0:54.7 | that they've been looking into this week, |
| 0:56.4 | including the Bank of England's latest inflation report. |
| 0:59.7 | What does it all mean for our pockets? |
| 1:01.6 | Well, customers are leaving Barclays |
| 1:03.4 | after being told they're too poor. |
| 1:05.9 | Why pension bonds have been extended |
| 1:07.6 | and why does it cost twice as much |
| 1:09.7 | to phone countries, some countries in Europe, |
| 1:11.9 | than those much further afield? |
| 1:13.8 | I'll let you know. |
| 1:15.1 | To celebrate Share Radio's first year, |
| 1:17.9 | we're giving away a Pure Evoke |
| 1:19.5 | D2 Digital Radio every single week. |
| 1:22.4 | Many lucky winners have already received theirs, |
| 1:24.8 | and you could be next. |
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