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Beating the Recession - Cash vs Cards

Beating the Recession - Cash vs Cards: Channel 4 Dispatches

Personal finance expert Harry Wallop investigates whether cutting up our credit cards and paying for everything in cash could leave us with more money in our pockets.

Exclusive research for Channel 4 reveals how families are now realising the value of a 'return to cash', drawing out more from cash machines than at any time in the last five years.

But that's not what the banks and credit card companies want us to do - so is the move towards a cashless society more about the banks' profits than the convenience of financially-stretched consumers?

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First Shown

Date Time Channel
Monday 21 May 2012 8PM Channel 4

Last Shown

Date Time Channel
Monday 21 May 2012 8PM Channel 4

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