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You and Yours: Coronavirus, Pension scams, Digital streaming

16/03/2020

Coronavirus, Pension scams, Digital streaming

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Coronavirus, Pension scams, Digital streaming

Latest on coronavirus. Pension scam victims. The rise of digital streaming.

How coronavirus is affecting food supplies, social care and travel.
The pension savings that vanish in fraud. The unstoppable rise of digital streaming services.

We bring the latest on coronavirus, looking at how supermarkets are planning to keep supplies flowing and what's happening with travel now that Tui has stopped selling holidays. We also report live from a care home about the latest advice for care workers, residents and their families. We speak to Catherine Shuttleworth, the chief executive of the consultancy Savvy, which works with many of the supermarket chains, and Simon Calder, Travel Editor of The Independent, who is currently stranded in Aden in Yemen. 

The new pension freedoms, where you can invest your pension savings where you like, have led to a huge rise in the numbers being stripped of their pension funds. A report from Portsmouth University estimates that 1.6 million people in the UK have lost their pension funds to fraud. We speak to Baroness Ros Altmann, a former Pensions minister, about the launch, later today, of a new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pensions Scams, and what needs to be done to tackle to better protect people from becoming victims of fraud. 

We report on the unstoppable rise of digital streaming services. In the latest battle for streaming supremacy, Disney is hoping to get in on the act with the launch of a new service next week. We ask Jonathan Easton of Digital TV Europe about how Disney will fare in this already crowded market.


Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Tara Holmes.

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