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Dawn's Dosh Spot
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Introduced on a cosy daytime-television sofa as the programme's financial expert, Dawn French answers a question about the markets by listing what the stallholders are selling, from fruit and cutlery to little dancing plastic flowers. Steered towards the financial markets, she explains that people are nervous about money, settles a viewer's confusion between a pension scheme and a unit trust by simply naming the two, and treats a question about investing in gold as a price guide to chains, initial pendants and engraved identity bracelets. The presenter thanks her warmly for one last garbled proverb offered as her word from the City.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 2
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
In the market today, people are selling bananas or plums.
Now, let's clear this up once and for all, shall we? The first is a pension scheme, whereas the second one is a unit trust
My word from the city today is, many a muckle makes a muckle.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Dawn French
Writer
Jennifer Saunders
Writer
Bob Spiers
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Online copies of this segment circulate under the title "Financial Expert"; the episode listing for Series 3, Episode 2 names it Dawn's Dosh Spot, alongside the episode's Star Test segment.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:04
Presenter
welcome back and on the sofa at the moment we have our financial expert dawn french who's going to be telling us a little bit about what is happening in the market today dawn welcome
- 00:15
Financial Expert ?
hello
- 00:15
Presenter
what is happening in the market today
- 00:17
Financial Expert
well in the market today people are selling bananas or plums i noticed some other people selling huge canteens of cutlery and some people were selling those little plastic flowers that dance have you seen them they sort of obviously not the real japanese ones just invitation British ones
- 00:34
Presenter
what about in the financial market
- 00:36
Financial Expert
right well in the financial market of course people are very nervous at the moment due to money having it or not having it
- 00:43
Presenter ?
yes getting a lot of letters recently about one very confusing problem and maybe you can clear this one up for
- 00:51
Financial Expert ?
yes
- 00:51
Presenter
what is the difference between a pension scheme
- 00:56
Financial Expert ?
yeah
- 00:57
Presenter ?
and a unit trust
- 00:58
Financial Expert
yes I've had a lot of letters myself now let's clear this up once and for all shall we the first is a pension scheme i hope that's clarified
- 01:12
Presenter ?
so tell me how should we be investing our money wisely i think really i mean for instance if i were to invest in gold what could i expect
- 01:23
Financial Expert
well for about 10 to 15 pounds you could expect to get a small fine chain if you're prepared to spend an extra to five pounds you could get your initial for instance for you it would be a j in curly swirly writing to hang on the chain or perhaps just some simple hoop earrings really i feel duty bound to warn you though that if you're looking for a very chunky identity bracelet with engraving on it
- 01:44
Presenter ?
yes
- 01:44
Financial Expert
you'll be paying upwards of 50 pounds in the market for that today
- 01:48
Presenter
well word of warning there time i think for one last word of advice
- 01:55
Financial Expert ?
yes
- 01:56
Presenter ?
word from the city
- 01:56
Financial Expert
right my word from the city today is many a muckle makes a muckle
- 02:01
Presenter
indeed thank you
