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First
time buyers' property blues
Please
credit Inside Money on BBC Radio 4
A
nurse from Oxfordshire will feature on BBC Radio 4's award-winning
personal finance programme Inside Money on Saturday
9 August.
Vikki
Smith, who is 27 and works on the trauma unit of the John Radcliffe
hospital in Oxford, joins the programme to explore the problems
facing first time buyers in the area.
Vikki
has been renting a home for ten years in Witney and would like to
buy a small flat.
However
the rise in house prices has been so great that she fears she is
now locked out of the housing market for good.
She
says: "Five or six years ago, I could have bought a house in
my area for around £60,000. They're now selling them for £160,000.
"I'm
quite disillusioned and worried I will never own a place of my own."
Vikki
wants to stay in Oxfordshire, where she grew up, doing a job that
she loves. But like many other essential workers in the public services,
she fears she'll have to move to where property is more affordable.
She
joins Inside Money to find out what the chances are of her owning
her own home.
In
the course of the programme, she gets the chance to challenge the
new Housing Minister, Keith Hill MP, about what the government is
doing to help people like her. She also asks him what he would do
if he were in her shoes.
Inside
Money: First time blues can be heard on BBC Radio Four
on Saturday 9 August at noon and is repeated on Monday 11 August
at 3.00pm.
Notes
to Editors
1.
Inside Money is the sister programme to BBC Radio 4's Money Box
programme.
It
runs across the summer months and lets listeners investigate the
financial issues which matter to them.
The
2002 series of Inside Money was judged Best Broadcast Programme
in the Bradford & Bingley Personal Finance Awards.
2.
For more information about other programmes in the series, go to
the programme website at www.bbc.co.uk/insidemoney.
3.
The programme is presented by Lesley Curwen. The producer is Louise
Greenwood.
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BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
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