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Wake Up To Money

Unpicking the COVID enquiry

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Will Bain hears from analysts and businesses on the latest report from the Covid inquiry.

Also, the Chief Executive of Getlink and the Eurotunnel joins us to tell us why they have frozen all its future UK rail investments.

Plus, we have our Friday panel discussing the big stories from the week.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.

0:13.3

But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?

0:19.2

I remember having this very sharp thought

0:21.7

that what you do right now, this is it.

0:24.3

This defines your life.

0:26.0

I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.

0:28.4

I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this.

0:33.9

Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast.

0:37.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:39.4

Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:43.2

Welcome to Wake Up to Money. It's Friday. So our panel are ready to look back on another big week for the economy, just days out from the budget now.

0:51.3

And they'll be there to digest more technology stock jitters,

0:54.8

because we've seen those again overnight in the US.

0:56.7

We'll be talking about that very shortly.

0:58.3

Also on the program today, after scathing criticism from the official inquiry into government responses to the COVID pandemic,

1:04.9

we hear from a business impacted by lockdowns on what they make of the findings.

1:09.6

And the ashes are underway in Perth. We'll explain

1:13.7

while that's not necessarily universally good news as we bring you updates throughout the program

1:18.5

here on Wake Up to Money. Wake Up to Money with Will Bain. Yeah, morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money

1:26.5

on Friday the 21st of November. Just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you this morning. Great to have your company. Yeah, what are we now? Five days out from the budget. You heard Nagar trailing the coverage with Matt Chorley there. Of course, we're going to kick all of it off on Wake Up to Money on that morning. Sean will be primed and ready. Big plans ahead for that.

1:45.2

We still want your questions on the budget for those programs into next week as well. So do keep

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