Alistair Campbell

Now, we get loads and loads and loads of emails and of messages and of comments about what we do in the podcast.

At or close to the top, it relates to young people, and in particular, I would argue, so-called Gen Z, 14 to 29.

What's going on with them?

What kind of world are they living in?

What kind of world are they going to inherit?

What, if they do have kids, are their kids going to inherit?

How much we should be worried?

Have we seen all this before?

And it's just a kind of a phase that the world is going through.

So we should take it seriously, and we are.

We've put together a four-part series on this.

Not a moanfest, not a, oh, bloody kids, moanfest or rant.

Something that we hope is balanced because the picture is nuanced and it's complicated.

So which is it?

Is Gen Z lucky or is Gen Z left behind?

That's what this series is going to investigate.

So we brought in a journalist, Vicky Spratt, who first came to my attention when she wrote a very good book about housing, but who has spent the better part of a decade speaking to hundreds, hundreds of young people about these questions.

So she's gonna be guiding us through four episodes and she's gonna be joined by specialists along the way.

Here's episode one, lucky or left behind?

The Gen Z Money Story.