This is Money Podcast

This is Money Show - Perils of mini-bonds, car park investing, fix your mortgage and Lloyds sales techniques

July 31, 2015 14:29 - 47 minutes - 45.6 MB

Invest in a car park? Not everyone would be tempted by that, but there are plenty of people flocking to esoteric investments. Is that wise? This week we take an entertaining if gloomy look at the prospect of mortgage interest rate rises, Lloyds Bank's efforts to rip off customers, gold, mini bonds and a couple of unusual investments: rugby balls and car parking spaces at Gatwick airport. With Tanya Jefferies, Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost.

This is Money Show - How to complain, pension tax madness, banks clampdown, vending machines, Swindon, energy rip offs

July 24, 2015 16:10 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MB

What's the best way to complain? To the boss. This week Lee Boyce joins editor Simon Lambert at Share Radio with Georgie Frost to run through what the week's big money news means for you. On the agenda is the exodus from Swindon, possibly due to the lack of famous people from the town, or maybe the property prices the naming and shaming of the banks that trick customers into insulting savings accounts why axing pensions tax relief is a terrible idea how to complain to the chief execut...

This is Money show - rising interest rates, strong pound and petrol, supermarkets, mobile rip offs

July 17, 2015 15:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MB

This week This is Money's Mark Shapland joins Personal Finance Editor Rachel Rickard Straus and Share Radio Presenter Georgie Frost for a look at the best bits of money news and the worst excesses of corporate greed. Interest rates are finally apparently about to go up - that's great, no terrible news isn't it? There's a similar dilemma with the strong pound. Great for tourists, rubbish for exporters. And in this week's scams and rip offs, oil companies keep wholesale prices secret so th...

This is Money Show - EE, Room 101, taxman super powers, savings deals, rip offs

July 10, 2015 15:03 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

Rachel Rickard Straus joins Share Radio's Georgie Frost and This is Money's Lee Boyce to unearth further evidence of why EE should be shut away in George's Orwell's horror Room 101, how the taxman can now empty your bank account if he feels like it, more on the official energy bills rip-off, savings deals, car insurance, road rage and a whistle-stop tour of the Budget for anyone still interested.

This is Money show - Greece, pensions panic, credit ratings, new banks, old cars

July 03, 2015 16:23 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB

Simon Lambert and Tanya Jefferies have read and written all the big money news this week. Why not spend a fun hour in their company as they talk about Greece's future as a serious country, whether it's worth stuffing your pension full of cash at the last minute and whether you really understand the significance of your credit rating. Also on the agenda is the rise of the challengers - little new banks with big interest rates - and a round up of classic cars worth a punt

How to tell where your euro note is from

June 29, 2015 13:00 - 3 minutes - 3.27 MB

Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce work out where a wallet full of euro notes originated and hunt down some elusive Greek ones

This is Money Show - euros on test, when to retire, offering on a house, do you want a bank in your pocket?

June 26, 2015 15:28 - 53 minutes - 51.3 MB

How to spot where a euro note is from is on the agenda, as Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce join Share Radio star presenter for a lively look at the week's money news. This week they also discuss when the age we hope to retire at - and why that is getting older - and the new bank that has an app but no branches. They also talk about how much to offer on a home and why the new simple flat-rate state pension is actually very confusing. #euro #greece #mortgages #haggling #homes #toptrumps #pens...

This is Money show - Greece meltdown, RBS shutdown, diesel and buy-to-let tax

June 19, 2015 16:19 - 50 minutes - 47.4 MB

This week Adrian Lowery and Lee Boyce join Editor SImon Lambert and Share Radio Presenter Georgie Frost for a fun yet insicive look at the week's money news Grexit #RBS #cashmachines #diesel #tax #cars #advice #shopping #retail #buytolet #euro

This is Money Show - Nationwide shocker, DVLA madness, would you buy a bank?

June 12, 2015 16:27 - 45 minutes - 44 MB

This week Rachel Rickard Straus joins editor Simon Lambert and Share Radio presenter Georgie Frost for a fun look at the week's money news. This week a shocker from Nationwide on savings rates (clue it was a rise), the DVLA's driving licence hire car madness, what to do if your holiday is hit by Spanish air strikes. And the RBS question: would you buy (or sell) a bank now?

This is Money Show - Buy gold, Lloyds investing, Woolworths & shops that failed, why did PPI happen?

June 05, 2015 16:54 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB

How did our banks end up in such as mess with PPI? When will the pain for shareholders end? Lloyds has been hit with a £117m claims mishandling fine to prolong its PPI agony. It didn't need to be so bad though, Simon Lambert and Ed Monk, of This is Money, join Share radio's Georgie Frost to explain how banks continued to push PPI for years after problems had been flagged. They also discuss whether investing in gold with the Royal Mint's new service is worth it, why everyone need to get th...

This is Money Show - football crazy, sci-fi mad, buy-to-let, cheap wine, rising bills, Premium Bonds

May 29, 2015 14:48 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MB

Can you trust a financial journalist who has never seen Star Wars? Of course you can. And you can listen to him tearing up the week's money news. This is Money's chief entertainer and investigator, reporter and Star Wars virgin Lee Boyce joins editor Simon Lambert and Share Radio's Georgie Frost to discuss their favourite sci-fi movies, the mess that is the football business, a 30% hike in energy bills, what to do with a spare £100,000. Plus Premium Bonds, supermarket plonk and the count...

This is Money Show - houseboats, energy bill rip offs and deflation

May 22, 2015 16:07 - 45 minutes - 27.3 MB

This is Money reporters share their latest personal finance advice nuggets, question whether living on a boat is a romantic dream or chemical loo nightmare - and discuss whether we're experiencing good or bad deflation. #houseboats #deflation #energybills #barclays

Behind the scenes at Npower customer services

May 21, 2015 11:37 - 3 minutes - 2.4 MB

What's going on while you're waiting on hold? This is Money goes behind the scenes of Npower's largest customer service centre

This is Money Show - peak house prices, cheaper motoring, budgeting, interest rates and your finances under a new Government

May 15, 2015 16:36 - 44 minutes - 26.7 MB

This week Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost are joined by Rich Browning for an entertaining look at the State and your finances, the state of your finances, productivity, pensioner bonds, house prices, cars that switch themselves off, how Japanese knotweed means you won't get a mortgage, how to make a budget and stick to it, inheritance tax and so much more. #mortgages #knotweed #election2015 #houseprices #cars #investing #moneysaving

This is Money Show - Death of diesel, rugby bonds, rent controls, bank shares, cheap mortgages and lawnmower man

May 01, 2015 16:29 - 52 minutes - 28.9 MB

This week, don't miss Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and editor Simon Lambert as they lift the bonnet of financial entertainment to discover an unholy mess surrounding the health of diesel engines. There's confusion over election promises for the rental generation that don't add up, plus a look at TSB shares a new sports-related investment and how long can these cheap mortgage deals last? With Share Radio.

This is Money Show - Sneaky charges, second homes, favourite tips and parking fines

April 24, 2015 15:36 - 51 minutes - 28.6 MB

This is Money's Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce join Georgie Frost in the studio for a look at the money, business and finance news. This week's show features bad banks, money lessons to learn and mistakes to avoid, the charges we hate paying and a look at why the shady practice of car clocking has returned. Listen, laugh and learn.

This is Money show - the housing crisis, car tax traps, pensions woes, divorce, advice and... bangers and cash

April 17, 2015 16:35 - 52 minutes - 29.2 MB

Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert are this week joined by Tanya Jefferies for an entertaining and passionate look at the big stories of the week. There is a housing crisis brewing, yet more confusion over pensions freedom, tax and divorce and is it really worth paying for financial advice? All served up with a fun helping of bangers - old cars - and cash.

This is Money Show: Asking prices, blowing a pension, investing mistakes and British Gas shares windfalls

April 10, 2015 16:48 - 51 minutes - 28.4 MB

Simon Lambert and Rachel Rickard Straus join Georgie Frost to talk about how much to offer on a property, how to make a pension last, why Sid could have made a mint on British Gas shares and Simon reveals an honest look at a year's investing.

This is Money show: Isa deadline, most economical cars and the best places to live in the UK

April 02, 2015 15:01 - 52 minutes - 30 MB

This is Money editor Simon Lambert and journalist Lee Boyce discuss #Isa season and why Rutland is the best place to live in the UK with Georgie Frost on Share Radio

How to choose the best DIY investing platforms, Simon Lambert explains

April 01, 2015 11:47 - 2 minutes - 1.69 MB

This is Money editor Simon Lambert on the best investing Isa platforms to suit different investors and what they cost

This is Money show - Cold callers, financial advice, DIY investing and pensions

March 27, 2015 16:20 - 51 minutes - 28.9 MB

This is Money editor Simon Lambert and journalist Marc Shoffman discuss #cold-calling, #diyinvesting, and #pensions with Georgie Frost of Share Radio

Buy-to-let: How to do it right and avoid the pitfalls

March 26, 2015 15:05 - 11 minutes - 9.22 MB

This is Money's Simon Lambert and Marc Shoffman explain the tricks of the buy-to-let trade to Georgie Frost of Share Radio - on digital and online. #buytolet #property #investment #renting #houseprices

This is Money show - Help to buy Isas, shrinking teabags, growing vegetables and more fallout from the Budget

March 20, 2015 17:05 - 48 minutes - 34.9 MB

This week, Rich Browning and Ed Monk join Share Radio's Georgie Frost for an entertaining look at the minutia of the Chancellor's Budget, inheritance tax and huge cuts to Nationwide's 'loyal' savers accounts. They also take a fun-size look at the ever decreasing sizes of popular products and whether growing your own veg really can save you money. Simon Lambert is snowboarding. #budget2015 #carrots

This is Money show: Cheap euros, buy-to-let, TSB and rivals and saving for a pension early

March 13, 2015 17:41 - 52 minutes - 40.1 MB

This week, Georgie Frost of Share Radio is joined by Simon Lambert and Marc Shoffman to assess whether now is the time to buy euros, rental properties - even the TSB bank. They also look at the bribes banks offer to new customers, saving for your retirement and more.

Pension lifetime allowance: 'Last thing we want is to cut it'

March 12, 2015 11:14 - 10 minutes - 7.85 MB

Changes to the amount of money we can put into a pension without hefty tax penalties do not encourage saving, explains Simon Lambert to Share Radio's Georgie Frost. With Rachel Rickard Straus.

This is Money show - Happy pay, Buffett, pensions trap, 10-year fix mortgages and QE in Europe

March 09, 2015 16:43 - 51 minutes - 37.8 MB

This week, Share Radio's Georgie Frost and This is Money Editor Simon Lambert are joined by reporter Rachel Rickard Straus for an entertaining look at the latest money news and investigations. Including: Are you being paid enough to make you happy? Are 10-year fixed mortgages worth a punt? What does quantitative easing in the eurozone mean for you? Will changes to the lifetime allowance affect you? Legendary investor Warren Buffett writes to his fans And more...

Is the FTSE 100 good value now it's back at a 15-year high?

March 04, 2015 10:56 - 5 minutes - 3.2 MB

Editor Simon Lambert explains how on some measures there's still plenty to attract investors to the index of the UK's top 100 companies. Also taking part with Georgie Frost of Share Radio are This is Money's Rich Browning and Ed Monk.

This is Money show - not owning a home, FTSE 1999, pensions anarchy, scams and scandals

February 27, 2015 16:33 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB

Georgie Frost of Share Radio is joined this week by This is Money's Rich Browning, Simon Lambert and Ed Monk to cast an entertaining eye over the money highlights of the week. Stories under investigation include: Home ownership at a record low The FTSE 100 at a record high and what it means for investors The financial prophecies within Prince's pop song, 1999 Banking scandals A classic scam in the used car trade And anarchy in the pension reforms

This is Money show - property v shares, British cars, 6% savings, Bank of Dave and the broken energy market

February 20, 2015 15:47 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MB

It's time to run a bath and enjoy the dangerously warm glow from Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce and Rachel Rickard Straus as they join Share Radio's Georgie Frost for another entertaining insight into the week's money investigations. This time... What next for our broken untrusted energy market? Can you really earn 6% on your savings? Cash vs Property vs Stocks - who's the winner? Whatever happened to the bank set up by that man called Dave? And more...

This is Money show - inflation, deflation, phone call rip offs, £3bn mega-broadband and more

February 13, 2015 16:02 - 48 minutes - 34.8 MB

Is the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, all talk or is he the Maradona of finance? Also in the show... What's going on with inflation? Why on earth is BT charging so much for calls to France? Why does a washing machine cost four times more for the poor? What's next for all-in-one media services? Plus an update on pensioner bonds. This week's entertaining investigations are brought to you by Share Radio's star presenter Georgie Frost and This is Money's Simon Lambert and Ra...

This is Money show - football prices, cheap mortgages, pensioner bonds, crowdfunding

February 06, 2015 17:58 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB

This week, Share Radio's sport's mad presenter Georgie Frost is joined by This is Money's Lee Boyce, Simon Lambert and Marc Shoffman for an entertaining look at how to avoid paying obscene amounts of money to watch men play a game, the phenomenon of phenomenally cheap mortgage deals, the ongoing pensioner bonds mess and loads more.

This is Money show - new fuel bills tricks, old bikers, Sky mobile and the horrors of house hunting and Greek debt

January 30, 2015 17:31 - 43 minutes - 24.3 MB

This week editor Simon Lambert and financial sleuth Rachel Rickard Straus join Share Radio's Georgie Frost to explain the horrors of house hunting, the financial horrors in Greece, Sky's entry into mobile phones, whether our energy bills have been cut enough and the modern phenomenon of the OAB - old age bikers

Energy bills are falling... but not yet. Is it worth switching?

January 26, 2015 10:25 - 2 minutes - 1.42 MB

Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce discuss the sneaky tactics behind the latest round of changes to our gas and electricity bills and ask whether there are further savings to be made by changing provider. With Georgie Frost of Share Radio's Consuming Issues.

This is Money show...QE, pensioner bonds, and a Lada revival

January 23, 2015 16:56 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MB

This week, editor Simon Lambert and top reporter Lee Boyce offer an entertaining insight into what on earth QE in the EU by the ECB means, why Top of the Pops should come back on a Thursday, the stupid diesel tax, energy bills, more on the pensioner bonds kerfuffle and more on money - and Ladas - in general. With Georgie Frost on Share Radio. #money #saving #investing #consumer

This is Money show on Share Radio - episode 10

January 16, 2015 17:25 - 46 minutes - 24 MB

This week reporters Ed Monk and Rachel Rickard Straus join Share Radio's Georgie Frost to try to solve the mystery of neverending sofa sales, plus pensioner bonds and the latest on rip-off mobile phone tariffs and rip-off concert tickets.

'If you can find a classic Lada it should go up in value'

January 15, 2015 13:18 - 38 seconds - 573 KB

True or just another bad joke from the 80s? This is Money's Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert discuss investing in Russia's finest motorcar with Georgie Frost of Share Radio.

This is Money show on Share Radio - episode 9

January 10, 2015 15:27 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB

This week star reporter Lee Boyce joins editor Simon Lambert and Share Radio presenter Georgie Frost to discuss why Skoda is better than Lamborghini, how Tesco went so wrong, where to find the best bank accounts, Premium Bonds and how to get maximum... and now for our Mick Jagger moment... satisfaction from your investments

This is Money show on Share Radio - 8

January 02, 2015 17:21 - 52 minutes - 30.1 MB

This is Money's consumer affairs editor Rachel Rickard Straus joins editor Simon Lambert and presenter Georgie Frost to debate excessive house prices, mortgage rates, hateful rail fares, supermarket wars - and some positives for the year ahead.

This is Money radio show - 7

December 19, 2014 18:02 - 54 minutes - 40.9 MB

Ed, Amy and Simon join Share Radio's Georgie Frost to make sense of Russia, Scrooge, pension rip offs and budget v posh sprouts

This is Money radio show - episode 6

December 12, 2014 16:28 - 43 minutes - 31.7 MB

This week, top money sleuths Ed Monk and Lee Boyce join Share Radio's Georgie Frost to talk cars, turkeys and pensioner bonds

This is Money show on Share Radio - episode 5

December 05, 2014 18:20 - 49 minutes - 27.8 MB

The Chancellor's Autumn Statement maybe about political point-scoring but it affects you. Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce and Marc Shoffman make sense of this - and expensive whisky.

Episode 4 - This is Money show with Share Radio

November 28, 2014 17:45 - 51 minutes - 38.3 MB

This week: This is Money's Ed Monk and Rachel Rickard-Straus join editor Simon Lambert to investigate whether 'Black Friday' offers are as good as the retailers claim, whether building societies are ripping us off over interest rates and much more. With presenter Georgie Frost

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