{"podcast":{"title":"The Martin Lewis Podcast","slug":"the-martin-lewis-podcast-644025","podcast_index_feed_id":644025,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02pc9xt.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9xt","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0m1qfr6.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":213,"summary":"Martin Lewis answers your financial questions, offering valuable money-saving tips.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T00:21:09.190741+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-martin-lewis-podcast-644025"},"episode":{"title":"Question Time: Homeless to Homeowner- what next? Debt making me ill.. help! Save, or pay on 0% card? Close old accounts?","slug":"question-time-homeless-to-homeowner-what-next-debt-making-me-ill-help-save-or-pay-on-0-card-close-old-accounts","published_at":"2026-03-02T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-martin-lewis-podcast-644025/question-time-homeless-to-homeowner-what-next-debt-making-me-ill-help-save-or-pay-on-0-card-close-old-accounts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-martin-lewis-podcast-644025","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n3sb8k","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0n3s8ws.mp3","summary":"Martin Lewis gives his advice on what to do if you are overwhelmed by debt. He answers a question from someone facing debt problems which are having a very serious impact on their mental health. We hear a beautiful tale of moving from homeless to homeowner – and Martin explains what to do next after you have bought a house. Martin answers a question from a listener who to know if they should use Buy Now Pay Later, a 0% Purchase Card or just save up. Plus, find out what to do if you have a current accounts you don’t use. Plus Martin shares his remarkable hole-in-one golfing record. If you want to ask Martin a question, you now can! His Question Time podcast lets you ask Martin absolutely anything and everything (within reason!) – so if you’ve always wanted to know what colour his eyes are, what he's planning to do in his eventual retirement, or have a very complicated question about your personal finances, email it to MartinLewisPodcast@bbc.co.uk.","meta_description":"Martin Lewis gives his advice on what to do if you are overwhelmed by debt. He answers a question from someone facing debt problems which are having a ver…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1787,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-martin-lewis-podcast-644025/episodes/question-time-homeless-to-homeowner-what-next-debt-making-me-ill-help-save-or-pay-on-0-card-close-old-accounts/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-martin-lewis-podcast-644025/question-time-homeless-to-homeowner-what-next-debt-making-me-ill-help-save-or-pay-on-0-card-close-old-accounts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}