History

Money Box began in October 1977 with Louise Botting

Louise Botting

Elizabeth Louise Botting CBE was presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Money Box programme between 1977 and 1992. After her broadcasting career, she became one of the first female directors of a FTSE-100 company, through her appointment to the board of CGNU...

 as presenter. It was the first personal finance radio programme, and even today in the UK, it is one of the few. The programme You and Yours

You and Yours

You and Yours is a British radio consumer affairs programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.-History:It began broadcasting in October 1970, its first presenter was Joan York. In the great rescheduling of April 1998 it was increased from a 25 minute programme to 55 minutes. In the 1980s it briefly ran...

, also on Radio 4, also includes much about personal finance, fraud and scam

Confidence trick

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s. Money Box Live launched in 1990.

Transmission

Each Saturday Money Box is broadcast live in the half hour slot just after 1200 local time with news and information about personal finance in the United Kingdom. It is repeated on Sunday evenings just after 2100 local time.

Money Box Live

There is also a phone in

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 , it is common for an entire programme to be dedicated...

 programme Money Box Live answering listeners' calls and emails on one personal finance topic which changes each week. Money Box Live is broadcast on Wednesdays in the half hour slot just after 1500 local time. Vincent Duggleby also presents.

Money Box and Money Box Live are broadcast each week throughout the year except for six weeks from mid-July to late August. Both programmes are also available live over the internet and the current episodes can be listened to via the website for seven days from transmission. A podcast can be downloaded. Transcripts and summaries of programmes back to 2000 are available.

Listener input

Listeners can contact the programme via its website (link below). On the website there is a 'Have Your Say' page which publishes listeners' views on one story from the current week's Money Box.

Presenter

The presenter is Paul Lewis. He has presented since September 2000, having been a reporter on the programme in the early 1990s. Between 1992 and 2000, the presenter was Alison Mitchell. From the programme's start in 1977 to 1992, the programme was presented by Louise Botting

Louise Botting

Elizabeth Louise Botting CBE was presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Money Box programme between 1977 and 1992. After her broadcasting career, she became one of the first female directors of a FTSE-100 company, through her appointment to the board of CGNU...

. The programme has also been hosted by Naga Munchetty

Naga Munchetty

Naga Munchetty is a British journalist and television presenter. She currently presents BBC World News at 0500GMT on weekday mornings on BBC News Channel and BBC World News and makes regular appearances on BBC Breakfast...

.

Typical financial topics

• Credit crunch
• Credit cards
• Pension
  Pension
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  s
• Individual Savings Account
  Individual Savings Account
  An Individual Savings Account is a financial product available to residents in the United Kingdom. It is designed for the purpose of investment and savings with a favourable tax status. Money is contributed from after tax income and not subjected to income tax or capital gains tax within a holding...
  
   (ISA)

See also

• Working Lunch
  Working Lunch
  Working Lunch was a television programme broadcast on BBC Two which covered business, personal finance and consumer news between 1994 and 2010. The programme was first aired on 19 September 1994. It had a quirky, relaxed style, especially when compared to other BBC business shows such as World...
  
  , daily on BBC2 until July 2010
• In Business
  In Business
  -Format:It is presented by the BBC's Business Correspondent Peter Day, and is broadcast at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays and repeated at 9:30 p.m. on Sundays. It is the sister program of Global Business, which is also presented by Day and is broadcast on the BBC World Service.-History:It began as an...
  
  , also on Radio 4 with company focus
• Wake Up To Money
  Wake Up to Money
  Wake Up to Money is an early morning weekday financial radio programme on BBC Radio Five Live. It is broadcast from 5.35am - 6am in the early morning.-History:...
  
  , daily on Radio Five Live (also presented by Paul Lewis in the 1990s) with company focus
• Louise Botting
  Louise Botting
  Elizabeth Louise Botting CBE was presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Money Box programme between 1977 and 1992. After her broadcasting career, she became one of the first female directors of a FTSE-100 company, through her appointment to the board of CGNU...
  
  , presenter from 1977 to 1992

External links

• Money Box homepage BBC News
• Money Box full of change - Paul Lewis looks back over 25 years of our financial life Telegraph, 19 October 2002

Audio clips

• Mortgage Debt in November 2006 YouTube