This is Money show: Isa deadline, most economical cars and the best places to live in the UK
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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This is Money editor Simon Lambert and journalist Lee Boyce discuss #Isa season and why Rutland is the best place to live in the UK with Georgie Frost on Share Radio
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm. Welcome to consuming issues here on Share Radio with me Georgie Frost. |
| 0:25.0 | The team from This Is Money, the award-winning money section of the mail online. |
| 0:28.6 | Join me in the studio for our weekly catch-up. |
| 0:31.4 | Editor Simon Lambert is joined by journalist Lee Boyce to talk through the top stories that they've been investigating, including, |
| 0:38.0 | while the tax year ends at midnight on April the 5th. |
| 0:41.9 | So savers, investors have until then to stash away this year's ICER allowance. |
| 0:46.5 | But if you haven't acted yet, what can you do? |
| 0:49.4 | Where are the best cash icers? |
| 0:51.1 | Also, a day after that, the new pension freedoms come in, but watch out for the fraudsters. |
| 0:56.8 | We also reveal the true 10 most economical cars to run. Why do I say true? We'll let you know about |
| 1:04.2 | that too. And want to live a happy life in the country? Move to Rutland, apparently. Plus, |
| 1:10.0 | we were asking today, it's International Children's Book Day. |
| 1:14.1 | We spoke earlier to an international children's author, so we're asking books from your childhood, |
| 1:20.3 | please, your favourite books from your childhood. Editor Simon Lambert and journalist Lee Boyce, |
| 1:27.4 | please, Simon, book from your childhood, your favourite? I was a proper little book one when I was a kid. I used to love reading. In fact, so much that I used to secretly read with a bedside lamp by the side of my bed that I'd sort of twist over. So it was like slightly hidden on the pillow and actually managed to set fire to my pillow one night. |
| 1:44.9 | And had to go downstairs to tell my parents, set fire to my bed. |
| 1:48.1 | Reading, though, that's okay. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:50.4 | I can think of worse reasons why you set fire to your pillow. |
| 1:53.0 | They told me in future to just read with the light on normally, and it wasn't a problem. |
| 1:57.3 | I used to love Roald Dahl books. |
| 1:59.9 | I think my favourite is Matilda, actually. I love Matilda. In fact, my eldest daughter's middle name is Matilda after that. And I used to love Just William as well. I thought they were great. Lee, yourself? A bit like Simon, actually. I was a bit of a bookworm as well. Two stand-out books for my childhood, The Hobbit and Treasure Island. Probably not your typical children's books, but they are the two that I remember reading, you know, he has a five-year-old, six-year-old. Absolutely fantastic. Katie, what have people been saying? Rodale is so up there. He is, and I have to say, Simon Matilda, my favourite two, so good choice. And you're not the only one. Katie says Matilda. |
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