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27/07/2022
Gap Finders - Mark Game
How Mark Game, founder of The Bread and Butter Thing, found a gap in the market.
Holiday 成人快手 Spoofing, Consumer Panel and Indy Coffee Shops
The lower paid are suffering from rising costs but what about the middle classes?
Call You and Yours - What do you have to do to help your child follow their sporting dream?
What do you have to do to help your child follow their sporting dream?
Pawnbrokers, Teeth whitening at home, Grain
More people are using pawnbrokers as a quick source of emergency cash.
Gap Finders - Kate Griggs
How Kate Griggs, founder of the charity Made By Dyslexia, found a gap in the market.
Bus Regulation, Insurance Fraud and That Zara Dress
Greater Manchester's Mayor talks taking back control of buses from private operators.
Call You and Yours - What's the luxury you won't give up?
What's the luxury you won't give up?
Luxury car sales, Energy bills debt, Restaurants worried
Supercar sales are booming despite a cost of living crisis.
Is my house on the scammers list?
A special investigation: is my house on the scammers list?
Energy Special - How much will it cost and what can you do about it?
Energy Special - How much will it cost and what you can do about it?
Call You and Yours - How are you coping with childcare at the moment?
How are you coping with childcare at the moment?
Problem Gambling, Rising rents & Fake Companies
Gambling Fines, Rising Rents, More Scams
Gap Finders - Caroline Kennedy Alexander
How Caroline Kennedy Alexander found a gap in the post-surgery underwear market.
Northern Ireland Energy Bills; Offices; Lost Luggage
Why consumers in Northern Ireland are not receiving financial help with their energy bills
Call You and Yours - How are you going to afford university this year?
Flats gas hikes; Brunch boom; Package holidays
Why some residents of flats are facing gas price rises of nearly 400 per cent.
Gap Finders - Louise Hill
How Louise Hill found a gap in the financial tech sector for children.
Family Spending, The Future of Cinemas, Software Scams
We talk to parents about how price hikes are hitting them during the cost of living crisis
Call You and Yours: How are strikes and industrial action affecting you?
How are strikes and industrial action affecting you?
Food Basics Price-check; Dating Apps Anniversary; City v Country Life
Food prices rise at the highest rate since 2008.
Gap Finders - Rachael Twumasi-Corson
How Rachael Twumasi-Corson, founder and CEO of Afrocenchix, found a gap in the market.
Gym Locker Raids and Credit Cards
A fraud victim calls on banks to stop putting PIN numbers in mobile phone apps.
Call You and Yours: How are rising energy bills affecting small businesses?
How are rising energy bills affecting small businesses?
Gym Locker Theft Update; Disappearing Discounts; Recruiting Carers on Social Media
Listeners share their stories as gym-goers see bank accounts emptied in locker raid.
Gap Finders - Sylvia Simpson
Gap Finders - Sylvia Simpson, founder of debt advice charity Money Buddies.
Energy Plan; Gen Z Fashion; Student Digs Shortage
What does last week's energy plan mean for you?
Call You and Yours: What did the Queen mean to you?
Avanti train problems, financial problems for foster carers, bed bugs
Avanti train problems, financial problems for foster carers, bed bugs.
You and Yours Gap Finders: Thrift+
Gap Finder Joe Metcalfe talks about his online charity shopping site Thrift+.
Call You and Yours: What does the new energy support package mean for you?