Money

I lost investing, time to retry? | Success: you got me £3k more pension | I bought home at 30, can I fix energy before moving?

Martin Lewis takes your questions on anything and everything (within reason!)

05 Oct 2026,·45 mins

Money Box Live: Care costs, will you pay less?

How might care costs change in future, and who currently pays the bill?

07 Oct 2026,·27 mins

A-SOS

Sean Farrington shares the latest developments on the apparent cyber attack on ASOS.

07 Oct 2026,·53 mins

The New Narcos

8. The Red Notebook

A red notebook in the back of a car might finally reveal the killer in Almere.

01 Oct 2026,·33 mins

Antiques

How does the antiques industry work and is it accurately portrayed on television shows?

01 Oct 2026,·48 mins

US mortgage rates highest since 2023

US mortgage rates rise to 7.49%, highest in nearly 3 years years.

07 Oct 2026,·26 mins

The most economy-focused mid-term ever?

The economy is high on the agenda for US voters this election.

08 Oct 2026,·20 mins

Hunting the Truth

Were the banks telling the truth about their role in the financial crash of 2008?

04 Mar 2022,·14 mins

London Stock Exchange CEO: Negative Headlines Drove Firms Away

Dame Julia Hoggett says most companies that left UK for USA were worse off.

07 Oct 2026,·51 mins

Series 1

Coffins Full of Car Keys

Why we have interest rates, how we misunderstand them - and a curious coffin connection.

29 Aug 2018,·26 mins

Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

How animals make us smarter – we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode

22 Jul 2021,·18 mins

Wills and Inheritance Tax

Financial phone-in. Paul Lewis and guests answer queries about wills and inheritance tax.

29 Apr 2015,·30 mins

Cheap British Beer

The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.

15 Nov 2024,·14 mins

5. The £10 Billion Fridge

Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.

04 Apr 2025,·14 mins

Monsters

Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.

30 Mar 2011,·30 mins

Omnibus Episode 2

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.

05 Aug 2016,·58 mins

Episode 5

Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.

02 Aug 2024,·14 mins

The pub is dead! Long live the micropub!

British pubs have been closing down but a new type of pub - the micropub - is popping up.

15 Feb 2020,·26 mins

Ajay Cheema: Personal fitness

Ajay Cheema tells Harleen about how he went from working in banking to becoming a PT.

05 Oct 2026,·30 mins

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

How much does the state of our teeth depend on what's in our bank balance?

19 Jul 2018,·53 mins

Episode 3: The Politics

What are the politics behind tax policy?

03 Nov 2025,·42 mins

Still in Business

How some businesses survived lockdown – at least this far.

24 Sep 2020,·28 mins

French Economist Thomas Piketty

Economist Thomas Piketty on the gap between the global rich and poor, tax and capitalism

25 Dec 2014,·55 mins

When Geeks Took Over Poker

Tim Harford tells the story of Chris Ferguson, who applied game theory to poker, and won.

13 Feb 2013,·15 mins

Cinderella

Writer Lucy Mangan turns to fairy tales in a search for literary solutions to the economy.

29 Aug 2014,·15 mins

The financial cost of conflict

As western forces bomb Libya, we explore the financial cost of war.

01 Apr 2011,·26 mins

18. Series 1 Debrief

What we've learnt throughout the series.

10 Feb 2020,·24 mins

The Shift

Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world.

21 Nov 2011,·30 mins

Amy and Ian

Psychology graduate Amy meets Ian, who survived three years of unemployment in the 1980s.

19 Oct 2020,·28 mins

Birds, Bees and Business - Why Nature Matters (With The Wildlife Trusts and Landsec)

Deborah's barefoot walk, The Wildlife Trusts and one of the country's biggest landlords

14 Apr 2023,·46 mins