The Shrinkflation Nation | Why now is the time to check if you’re owed £100s of energy credit
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The main topic is all about how you could potentially get money back from your energy firm. If you pay by monthly direct debit then Martin explains why you should be checking now if you’re owed serious cash.
The Tell Us is about shrinkflation. Where can you find provable evidence of groceries, cleaning productions or cosmetics that are no longer as big as they were.
Plus, if you're aged 20 to 25, Martin explains a trick that can get you a free four-year railcard worth £100 via the bank Santander.
Get in touch… email [email protected]
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named |
| 0:08.0 | the Martin Lewis podcast. I do wonder what that's going to be about. Usually much of it comes |
| 0:13.3 | from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Childs, but there's also bonus money-saving tips and |
| 0:18.5 | extras just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
| 0:21.3 | In today's pod, you may be owed hundreds of pounds, or in the extreme, thousands of pounds, |
| 0:27.1 | of credit back from your energy firm. And I'll tell you why this is the perfect time to check. |
| 0:33.8 | It's all about the energy direct debit cycle. I know. Sexy. |
| 0:38.3 | Then shrinkflation, same price, smaller products. |
| 0:43.3 | That's the tellers. |
| 0:44.3 | And we've been swamped with information from glorious data nerds who've kept track of the grams and the prices so we can see the real damage. |
| 0:53.3 | Whether it's Jaffa Cakes, cat food, shampoos, |
| 0:57.4 | Lou Roll, and we even hear from both a biscuit and a chocolate engineer who were actually |
| 1:02.2 | asked to shrink stuff in the factories. I've a trick to get a free £100 rail card for anyone |
| 1:08.7 | aged 20 to 25. Do spread the word if you know someone on the right |
| 1:12.3 | age category. And this week's mastermind is all about if a firm advertises a 32 months |
| 1:19.6 | zero percent balance transfer card, how many people actually need to get it? Lots to do. Play the theme tune. |
| 1:46.6 | Why are we all talking about traitors today? Celebrity traitors, has that been announced? |
| 1:49.7 | They're filming it at the moment. |
| 1:51.6 | I don't know if that's coming to me |
| 1:52.7 | because I put something out on it the other day |
| 1:54.5 | because I was asked if I wanted to do |
| 1:56.0 | what would be interested in doing celebrity traitors. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 23 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.