then and i left uni, i went to work in the city in financial pr and then i did a postgrad in broadcast journalism. after that i came to the bbc as a producer reporter and except my contract was producer reporter. i was never allowed to report because classically the bbc put you where it wanted you to be, shall we say it like that. that delicately put about the fact that we completely missed one of the great talents journalistically of our age. you turned yourself into an on screen figure moneysavingexpert on a new sort of digital channel. simply money. had you any idea that that would be the rest of your life? no, not a clue. although that was the first moment when, bang, you know, i was desperate to get out of bed and do myjob and excited about what i was creating. and the first time i felt i was doing something really creative. so i didn t know when i started, but within six months i knew i had something. and there s actually a story after about a year on the channel because i did,
when i was first becoming. an even younger martin lewis had produced a young nick robinson. correct. and the bbc had not quite seen your talents. after i left university, and i was very involved in student politics. i was very political then and i left uni, i went to work in the city in financial pr and then i did a postgrad in broadcastjournalism. after that i came to the bbc as a producer reporter and, except my contract was producer reporter. i was never allowed to report because classically the bbc put you where it wanted you to be, shall we say it like that. delicately put about the fact that we completely missed one of the great talents journalistically of our age. you turned yourself into an on screen figure moneysavingexpert on a new sort of digital channel. simply money. had you any idea that that would be the rest of your life? no, not a clue. although that was the first moment when, bang, you know, i was desperate to get out of bed and do myjob and excited about what i was c
journalistically of our age. you turned yourself into an on screen figure moneysavingexpert on a new sort of digital channel. simply money. had you any idea that that would be the rest of your life? no, not a clue. although that was the first moment when, bang, you know, i was desperate to get out of bed and do myjob and excited about what i was creating. and the first time i felt i was doing something really creative. so i didn t know when i started, but within six months i knew i had something. and there s actually a story after about a year on the channel because i did, it was all on this deal of the day programme that i did where i did all my research as the moneysavingexpert. we changed my title and my bit of their website was the only bit you had to log into, but it had 96% of the channel s traffic and i had about 15,000 people on this email list that i used to email about my deals of the week. and i went to them. i said, you know, i know it s a tv channel, but i really think we