Money Box Episodes Episode guide
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Money Box Live: Road Charges
Are additional taxes on car users an effective way to improve transport infrastructure?
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Fees charged even with no sale
Online estate agents, state pension age review, overdraft fee cap, and savings rates.
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Money Box Live: Can children's attitudes to money shape their adult financial lives?
How can children develop the right financial habits that will stay with them for life?
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Lower energy bills? Use a spreadsheet!
PM to clean up the energy market?; getting a better state pension; TalkTalk's data breach.
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Money Box Live: Who needs a bank branch?
Banking is changing - is it for the better?
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The energy deals which cut customers off
Existing customers cut off from attractive energy deals.
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Money Box Live: Executive pay packages - can they be curbed?
Louise Cooper and guests discuss executive pay packages.
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How will the sugar tax work?
Looking at a sugar tax, a bank fraud super-complaint, and energy suppliers.
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Money Box Live: Tax and benefits - keeping up with the way we work now?
Financial phone-in. Are tax and benefits systems keeping up with the way people work now?
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The cost of Hinkley Point electricity
How much will power from the UK's newest nuclear plant really cost?
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Money Box Live: Pension or property - financing your retirement
Could property be a better investment for retirement than pensions?
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Beswitched, bothered and bewildered
Why the benefits of switching are only felt if you do it every 12 months.
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Money Box Live: Working Through University
Louise Cooper asks how today's students combine work and study.
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Dire time for savers with more rate cuts
Dire time for savers. Bank error in your favour. Who is to blame when a SIPP goes wrong?
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Money Box Live: A hazardous year for UK holidaymakers.
2016 has been a hazardous year for UK tourists. What are your rights if things go wrong?
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'We are so abused as private renters'
Calls for new protections for renters to stop excessive fees.
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Money Box Live: The Summer Childcare Conundrum
Summer stress - avoiding childcare chaos this holiday.
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The Water Margin: A Tale of Two Drinking Troughs
The water margin. The Bank of England holds base rates. And: the taxman's bumper Wimbledon
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Money Box Live: University education - a good deal?
How to get a good deal from a university education.
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What is the future for investing in commercial property
The future for commercial property investment, Ex-pats' pensions pounded, Fund charges.
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Money Box Live: Benefits - is the system too complex?
With £13bn unclaimed in benefits, is the UK's welfare benefit system too complex?
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Post-Brexit pension prospects
Pensions minister Ros Altmann talks about pension prospects post-Brexit.
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Money Box Live: Brexit - what does it mean for your finances?
What will Brexit mean for your personal finances? Paul Lewis answers listeners' questions.
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EU Referendum: From What If? to What Now?
How might the UK vote to leave the EU affect people's finances?
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Money Box Live: The complexities and consequences of financial abuse
Ruth Alexander examines financial abuse and the possible options for people affected by it
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Should you buy foreign currency now or wait until after the EU referendum?
When is best to buy foreign currency, Vodaphone blues and just what is a private divorce?
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Money Box Live: The Modern British Workplace
Adam Shaw and guests explore the modern British workplace.
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Energy switching - How many suppliers does it take to change your provider?
A new energy-switching pledge, workers paying to get paid and expat pensions.
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Money Box Live: Why don't house prices fall if they are unaffordable for many people?
Financial phone-in. Why don't house prices fall if they are unaffordable for many people?
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National Insurance - how some 'umbrella' contractors pay twice
Why some umbrella company contractors are paying double national insurance contributions.