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Question Time: Cancel old credit cards? Martin: What 3 laws would you introduce? Pay v pensions?
Martin Lewis takes your questions on anything and everything (within reason!)
01 Jun 2026,·32 mins
An Xclusive Offer
Ordinary British investors will have the chance to buy shares in SpaceX before it lists.
03 Jun 2026,·59 mins
Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes
Tim Harford investigates migration and housing, Welsh literacy, and bond market drama
03 Jun 2026,·28 mins
Civil Service Pension Debacle and Cheaper Energy?
Union calls for Capita to lose its contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme
30 May 2026,·24 mins
Can Trump's latest tariff plan on 60 countries stick?
US cites forced labour concerns as the reason for its latest levies on trading partners
03 Jun 2026,·26 mins
Has the World Cup broken dynamic pricing?
As dynamic pricing expands, so does the backlash
04 Jun 2026,·17 mins
#42 Hinge CEO: The Cost of Living Crunch Is Changing How We Date
Jackie Jantos on AI-assisted dating, Gen Z loneliness and the rise of the daytime date.
03 Jun 2026,·57 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
Entrepreneurs: Your Questions Answered
Three top entrepreneurs answer your questions about starting and managing a business.
05 Mar 2026,·36 mins
Episode 3: The Politics
What are the politics behind tax policy?
03 Nov 2025,·42 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
The Parenting Coach: Aman Kaur
Aman Kaur tells Harleen Nottay how she became The Parenting Coach.
01 Jun 2026,·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
Going for Growth
How might the most important idea for business change and adapt in the next decade?
31 Jan 2025,·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
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
Monsters
Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.
30 Mar 2011,·30 mins
Two 'New Philanthropies'
Hugh contrasts the role of philanthropy today with that of the middle of the 20th century.
26 Dec 2011,·30 mins
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis
‘Just because you passionately believe in it, that doesn't make it a good idea’.
12 Feb 2021,·28 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
Wills and Inheritance Tax
Financial phone-in. Paul Lewis and guests answer queries about wills and inheritance tax.
29 Apr 2015,·30 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
18. Series 1 Debrief
What we've learnt throughout the series.
10 Feb 2020,·24 mins
Hollie and Jay
Eavesdrop as a couple open up to a counsellor about their finances and their feelings.
29 Aug 2020,·24 mins
Is Your House TV-Ready?
How your house could end up on TV and make you money.
30 Jan 2026,·5 mins
Botswana: God Wants You to Be Wealthy
The country's relatively strong economy has created a new breed of consumer
25 Jan 2006,·22 mins
Episode 2
Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.
04 Oct 2011,·45 mins
Cinderella
Writer Lucy Mangan turns to fairy tales in a search for literary solutions to the economy.
29 Aug 2014,·15 mins
Amy and Ian
Psychology graduate Amy meets Ian, who survived three years of unemployment in the 1980s.
19 Oct 2020,·28 mins