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You and Yours: Bulb Buyout; Used Cars; Gen Z Travel

Bulb Buyout; Used Cars; Gen Z Travel

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Bulb Buyout; Used Cars; Gen Z Travel

What Bulb's year in limbo has meant for its 1.5 million customers.

What Bulb's year in limbo has meant for its customers and how Gen Z use social media to connect with travel companions.

Bulb customers have been in limbo for a year now as a new owner is sought for the the collapsed energy supplier. Where has that left its 1.5 million customers? We hear from one and Peter White talks to independent energy analyst David Cox, about what lessons can be drawn from the fiasco which is estimated to have cost UK households £250.

One of the consequences of the pandemic and the resulting supply chain issues were soaring second hand car prices. Now used car prices have come down for the first time in two years. But is it really time to rush out and purchase one? Peter asks Stuart Masson editor at The Car Expert and Robert Forrester, Chief Executive at Vertu Motors one of the UK's largest car dealership groups for their predictions for where the market is headed next. 

Gen Z use social media for travel more than any other age group according to the latest research. Peter White talks to two young female travellers who became travel companions in Budapest recently after they connected through a Facebook Group and asks them what its like to holiday with someone they've never actually met before. And Portia Jones travel journalist and host of the Travel Goals Podcast talks about the other ways young people are using tech, apps and social media for travel.

PRESENTER - PETER WHITE
PRODUCER - CATHERINE EARLAM

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