Money Sense

Published: Dec. 14, 2018, 9 p.m.

"I listen to Money Box on Radio 4 as others might to a recording of Indonesian gamelan music", writes Will Self, "thrilling to the intricacies, even as I find them altogether alien".

Will ponders why personal finance is such an alien concept for him.

But his thoughts move to \u201cthose hundreds of thousands out there for whom the words \u2018personal finance\u2019 are, quite simply, terrifying\u201d.

Producer: Adele Armstrong