This is Money show on Share Radio - episode 10
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week reporters Ed Monk and Rachel Rickard Straus join Share Radio's Georgie Frost to try to solve the mystery of neverending sofa sales, plus pensioner bonds and the latest on rip-off mobile phone tariffs and rip-off concert tickets.
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm welcome to consuming issues here on Share Radio. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Georgie Frost here every weekday from 9 until 1 with my producer Annie Weston on digital online and through the Share Radio mobile app, |
| 0:21.9 | making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further. |
| 0:25.3 | Now, this is the time of the week where we welcome the team from this is Money, |
| 0:29.5 | the award-winning financial website and money section of the mail online into the studios. |
| 0:34.6 | This morning I've got journalists Ed Monk and Rachel Rickard Strauss with me |
| 0:38.0 | to discuss the stories they've been investigating over the last week that affect the pound |
| 0:42.4 | in your pocket, including mobile phone customers are losing out on billions of pounds |
| 0:48.3 | just by being on the wrong contract. Researchers from which want phone companies to make it easier |
| 0:53.7 | to switch providers. Also, |
| 0:55.8 | the long-awaited pensioner bonds paying an annual interest rate of up to 4% are finally here. |
| 1:01.8 | But there was so much demand, it led to the NS&I website to crash. But why are they so popular? |
| 1:08.0 | Are there any left? And how do you get yours? And can you actually get a better deal |
| 1:12.2 | elsewhere? Also, the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is currently sharpening his quill to |
| 1:17.4 | right to the chance that are explaining why inflation has fallen below target. We'll be finding |
| 1:22.4 | out what this means for us and our money. Are you getting a fair deal on your sofa as well? We'll be revealing |
| 1:28.7 | the clever tactics used by retailers to make you think you're getting a bargain. And more |
| 1:34.1 | qualifications automatically equal, better chances of landing a good job. Well, not according |
| 1:39.4 | to multi-millionaire and former Dragons Den investor James Kahn, he's been sharing his CV tips with |
| 1:45.1 | This Is Money team and they'll be spilling all for us a bit later. |
| 1:50.0 | And with MPs getting involved in rip-off ticket prices for music and sports fans and |
| 1:56.0 | moving to stamp out online touts, we're asking, what is the most expensive ticket you've paid for for an event? |
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