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Wake Up to Money

WAR READY

Wake Up to Money

BBC

Business

4.4754 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced an overhaul of the U.K.'s defence spending. And fashion powerhouse Christian Dior gets a new boss who hails from Northern Ireland..

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.1

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.7

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

0:13.5

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

0:21.7

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.5

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

0:31.3

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

0:36.1

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:40.3

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:44.2

Wake Up to Money from BBC Five Live.

0:47.7

Hello, welcome, it's Wake Up to Money. In the end yesterday, we got those share prices

0:52.6

in defence companies rising, as we heard about the overhaul of how our military works.

0:59.8

When we are being directly threatened by states with advanced military forces, the most effective way to deter them is to be ready.

1:08.7

Still plenty of questions about where the money will come from and just how much over the

1:13.8

years we'll get into that.

1:15.2

Now we've got more detail, spending a big question on much of the government's decisions at

1:21.2

the moment.

1:21.8

Spending on agency staff across the NHS in England has dropped by almost a billion pounds

1:26.2

in the last financial year.

1:28.2

What's the impact of this on recruiters who say they have to pay emergency rates when shifts go unfilled?

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