''Money Box'' is a weekly personal finance radio programme on
BBC Radio 4, produced by
BBC News, currently presented by
Paul Lewis. The programme is broadcast live each Saturday in the half-hour slot just after midday. It is repeated on Sunday evenings just after 9.00pm.
''Money Box'' began in October 1977 with
Louise Botting
Elizabeth Louise Botting CBE (born 19 September 1939) is a British company director and former broadcaster. She was presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''Money Box'' programme between 1977 and 1992. After her broadcasting career, she became one of the ...
as presenter, which she continued until 1992, after which Alison Mitchell presented until September 2000. The current presenter is
Paul Lewis. He has presented since September 2000, having been a reporter on the programme in the early 1990s. The programme has also been hosted by
Naga Munchetty
Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah (born 25 February 1975), also known as Naga Munchetty, is a British television presenter, newsreader and journalist. She regularly presents '' BBC Breakfast''. She is also a former presenter of BBC World Ne ...
.
A related
phone in
In broadcasting, a phone-in or call-in is a programme format in which viewers or listeners are invited to air their live comments by telephone, usually in respect of a specific topic selected for discussion on the day of the broadcast. On radio ( ...
programme ''Money Box Live'' launched in 1990. It answers listeners' calls and emails on one personal finance topics. ''Money Box Live'' is broadcast on Wednesdays in the half-hour slot just after 3.00pm. Vincent Duggleby sometimes presents.
''Money Box'' and ''Money Box Live'' are broadcast each week throughout the year except for six weeks from mid-July to late August. A podcast can be downloaded and transcripts and summaries of programmes back to 2000 are available. On the website there is a 'Have Your Say' page which publishes listeners' views on one story from the current week's ''Money Box''.
Typical financial topics
*
Credit crunch
*
Credit cards
A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the cardholder's accrued debt (i.e., promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts plus the o ...
*
Pension
A pension (, from Latin ''pensiō'', "payment") is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments ...
s
*
Individual Savings Account
An individual savings account (ISA; ) is a class of retail investment arrangement available to residents of the United Kingdom. First introduced in 1999, the accounts have favourable tax status. Payments into the account are made from after-tax i ...
(ISA)
See also
* ''
You and Yours'', also on Radio 4, also includes much about personal finance, fraud and
scams.
* ''
Working Lunch'', daily on
BBC2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
until July 2010
BBC's Working Lunch show to end
BBC News, 23 April 2010
* ''In Business'', also on Radio 4 with company focus
* ''Wake Up To Money
''Wake Up to Money'' is an early morning financial radio programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. It is broadcast from 05:00 to 06:00 each weekday.
History
The programme was established when Radio 5 Live began broadcasting in March 1994. It has been pr ...
'', daily on Radio Five Live (also presented by Paul Lewis in the 1990s) with company focus
References
External links
''Money Box'' homepage
BBC News
''Telegraph'', 19 October 2002
Mortgage Debt in November 2006
YouTube
{{BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 programmes
Personal finance
1977 radio programme debuts