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This is Money Podcast

This is Money show - the housing crisis, car tax traps, pensions woes, divorce, advice and... bangers and cash

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business, Investing, Business News, News

4.4735 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert are this week joined by Tanya Jefferies for an entertaining and passionate look at the big stories of the week. There is a housing crisis brewing, yet more confusion over pensions freedom, tax and divorce and is it really worth paying for financial advice? All served up with a fun helping of bangers - old cars - and cash.

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

Producer: Georgie Frost


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0:00.0

Welcome to consuming issues here on Share Radio.

0:09.7

I'm Georgie Frost, the team from This Is Money, the award-winning money section of the mail online.

0:14.4

Join me in the studio for our weekly catch-up, editor Simon Lambert, journalist Tanya Jeffries here today to talk through the top

0:21.2

stories they've been investigating, including politicians are under attack for using pension

0:26.7

tax relief like an election piggy bank. Can pension firms and insurers cope under the weight

0:32.1

of calls about the new freedoms and how divorce can seriously shrink your retirement fund?

0:37.1

Also coming up, experts are

0:38.9

warning we could be facing a very real housing crisis as a fall in the number of properties

0:44.0

coming onto the market will keep prices rising for years to come. New car tax rules you need to know

0:49.8

to avoid hefty fines or a trip to the pound. And staying on that theme,

0:56.0

Bentley's and Porsches, well, they may be posh,

0:57.6

but according to a new survey,

1:00.6

they're prone to break down more than other cars.

1:03.3

What came out as the most reliable, we'll let you know.

1:06.6

Plus, millions of us were glued to our TVs,

1:09.0

our smartphones, laptops in pubs. We held parties for one main visual event.

1:12.6

I'm not talking about the challengers' election debate.

1:21.8

Joey, we're home.

1:27.7

There's a lot of people about my age getting goosebumps right now.

1:30.7

That's the new Star Wars film trailer, of course, revealed at a fans convention in California.

1:35.7

It's already added almost 1.3 billion pounds to the value of Disney since it was released.

1:42.2

So in celebration, we're asking please, for your favourite

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