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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Martin interviews Jonathan Brearley - the CEO of Great Britain's energy regulator OFGEM.
Tell Us is all about your pocket money rules.
Mastermind this week looks at your right to return gifts.
Plus advice on the best tactics for Scrabble and tips on train ticket refunds and car finance.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
0:09.9 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
0:12.1 | Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Chiles, |
0:16.3 | but there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
0:21.2 | Included in today's pod, the big topic is energy, because we have the chief exec of the |
0:27.0 | energy regulator OffGEM on the show taking your questions, including on. |
0:32.0 | What's happening to standing charges? We'll talk through the big changes just announced. |
0:36.6 | Why are prices in the UK so high? Can you be |
0:39.9 | forced to have a smart meter? We'll talk renewables, prepayment meters, time of use tariffs and more. |
0:46.2 | Plus, as some of your questions were a bit tasty, does he take bungs? What's the point of |
0:51.1 | off-jem anyway? You're just in big company's pockets. I put those to him too. |
0:56.8 | Moving on, this week's tell us is all about pocket money. How much do you give and do they have to work for it? |
1:02.7 | The money mastermind is on Christmas gift return consumer rights. Then to finish, we'll talk Scrabble. |
1:12.3 | No, not about buying Scrabble sets. |
1:13.8 | We're just talking Scrabble. |
1:16.9 | And why it's really a numbers, not a letters game. |
1:18.3 | Wait till we end for that one. |
1:19.9 | Play the theme tune. |
1:24.5 | I got meals. |
1:26.2 | I got to pay. |
1:28.7 | So I'm going to work for a world every day. I got bills. I got to pay. So I'm going to work for it. |
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