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Wake Up to Money

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As one of news's biggest presenters leaves, what does the future of the media hold? Will Bain finds out.

Plus, a look ahead at what the Bank of England could announce on interest rates, and what could be the potential impacts of new tariffs on Northern Ireland?

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history
0:05.5	join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet
0:11.2	Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.
0:15.3	We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,
0:19.8	there's people can't get on the housing ladder.
0:21.5	This sounds familiar.
0:23.2	And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement.
0:25.3	I love the clothes.
0:26.3	I love the vibe.
0:27.1	Yes, we're a comedy show
0:28.0	that takes history seriously
0:29.3	and then laughs at it.
0:30.5	You're dead to me.
0:31.3	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.5	Wake up to Money with Will Bain. BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:41.6	Wake Up to Money with Will Bain.
0:45.5	Morning, welcome to wake up to money on Thursday the 6th of February.
0:46.7	Big week, hasn't it? Filled with tariffs, trade wars, all of those kind of things to factor in for our businesses.
0:52.4	And today, they're going to be things that have factored into the decision making from the Bank of England on what to do their first
0:57.6	borrowing rate decision of 2025, as we were saying in the introduction there, widely expected
1:02.4	that they will trim those key borrowing rates down to 4.5%. But the questions now, is inflation
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