4.2 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Martin answers a huge number of questions on savings, on how ISA’s work, where is a safe place to keep your money, the pros and cons of investing, should you be saving or paying off debt and far more.
The podcast also covers lots of other subjects such as getting travel insurance for holidays booked a long time ahead, how credit cards really work, what to do if a car finance firm hasn’t replied to your reclaim complaint and more.
This week’s Mastermind is all about if borrowing more means you actually pay less?
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.8 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast. |
0:09.5 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
0:11.6 | Now, usually much of it comes from a BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Chiles, |
0:15.6 | but don't worry, there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
0:20.4 | In today's pod, it's a Q&A special. |
0:23.8 | We've had huge numbers of questions on savings, on how ICEs work, what safe savings, why they |
0:29.5 | limit what you can earn, how tax on savings works, the pros and cons and investing, should you be |
0:34.4 | saving or paying off debt, and far more. And questions on lots of other subjects |
0:39.0 | too. Getting travel insurance for holidays booked a long time ahead. How credit cards really work. |
0:44.0 | What to do if a car finance firm hasn't replied to your reclaim complaint and more? |
0:47.9 | And this week's mastermind is all about. Can borrowing more mean you pay less? As you can |
0:53.5 | probably hear, I've got lurgy and my voice is a bit of a struggle, |
0:56.3 | so let's get on with it. |
0:57.6 | Play the theme tune. |
1:01.6 | I got meals. |
1:03.9 | I got to pay. |
1:05.7 | So I'm going to work for it. |
1:09.3 | I got a mouth. |
1:23.2 | I got a feed. So I'm going to make sure. That is the sound of the sound of Martin Lewis. It plays wherever he goes. |
1:27.5 | Even when we've got nothing to play it on, when I see him, I can hear that tune. Martin, |
1:30.8 | what are we doing today? Yeah, it's true, Adrian. Even when I lift up the toilet lid, that's the tune that goes off when I, you know, any time I make a deposit. |
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