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Cellphone cancer risk?
12:45 PM.Peter Griffin on the long-awaited World Health Organisation's Interphone study which explores the link between cellphone use and cancer. The full report's not even out yet and already people are… Read more Audio
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Bread matters
12:15 PM.Andrew Whitley is a baker and one of the founders of the Real Bread Campaign in the UK. He reckons modern bread is less nutritious, and is causing health problems like Coeliac disease and gluten… Read more Audio
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Beer history
1:40 PM.Mark Denny's a physicist and keen home-brewer who's looking at the way beer developed from leftover soggy bread mix to today's micro-brewed craft ales. Audio
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Slippery creatures
1:30 PM.Jan-Henning Dirks is working on a new insect repellent: a slippery coating you can apply to surfaces to stop insects' feet gripping. Audio
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Airline seating
1:10 PM.Airlines are looking for ways to change traditional seating patterns, experimenting with things like getting rid of overhead storage lockers and using mezzanine floors in the cabin. Jason Paur… Read more Audio
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Match-making councils
12:50 PM.David McNeill beams in from Japan where a falling population is turning local councils into matchmakers, organising gardening and cycling events for singles. Audio
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iPlot 8: Salad Seedlings
12:30 PM.Head gardener Colin Walker plans our planting cycle. We're sowing our salad greens using a bio-intensive method. The idea is to plant continually so we get crops throughout the summer and not one… Read more Audio
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Bee populations
12:15 PM.Another perspective on Colony Collapse Disorder, the label used to describe the massive falls in bee numbers in the US and Europe. Professor Lawrence Harder says that bee populations are actually… Read more Audio
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Brazil nut threat
1:50 PM.NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports from the Peru-Brazil border. Audio
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Windows 7 review
1:40 PM.Is Microsoft's latest operating system any good? Peter Griffin gives his view on whether it's worth upgrading. Audio
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iPlot 7: First Shoots
1:25 PM.Signs of life in our urban veggie patch! Head gardener Colin Walker's inspecting the beds to see how our seedlings have been weathering the southerlies. Audio
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Wine-boxes
1:10 PM.We're speaking to economics professor Mike Veseth who studies the global wine market about the importance of the wine-box. Audio
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Nuts: Almonds
12:45 PM.We get up close and personal with the almond with Alison Sandle, an ancient nut that's mentioned in the Bible. Audio
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Preserving silence
12:30 PM.Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton is trying to protect and preserve silence against the incursions of man-made noise. Audio
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New technology and writing
12:15 PM.Is digital technology killing our ability to write? Stanford University English professor Andrea Lunsford's been studying thousands of exam and essay papers before and after the PC, spell-checkers and… Read more Audio
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Easter Island and Bolivian DIY
1:50 PM.Our correspondent Rory Carroll has two tourism-related tales from Latin America. A tourist ID card scheme for Easter Island, and an ill-fated DIY project by some Bolivian villagers on their local… Read more Audio
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Technology news
1:35 PM.Bill Thompson with technology news and some problems in the brave new world of cloud computing. Audio
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Farmers
1:10 PM.Historian Ian Hunter's charted the 100 year history of Farmers, one of the country's biggest retail chains. Audio
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iPlot 6: Compost
12:45 PM.We're back in the iPlot, our urban veggie patch. Colin Walker's sharing his compost recipe with us! Audio
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Digital music
12:15 PM.Digital technology like file-sharing, mp3 players, ripping and burning has changed the music industry forever. We're speaking to writer Steve Knopper about his book"Appetite for Destruction: the… Read more Audio
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Wicked plants
1:50 PM.Writer Amy Stewart looks at the dark side of the plant kingdom in her book"Wicked Plants". Audio
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Backing up: portable hard drives
1:35 PM.Peter Griffin's backing up our personal data. This week, we've got a buyer's guide to portable hard drives. Audio
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iPlot 5: First Plantings
1:10 PM.Colin Walker helps us plant out the first crops at the iPlot: our urban veggie garden. Fingers crossed there'll be no more frosts! Audio
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Pacific gridiron
12:50 PM.NPR's Tom Goldman looks at the impact Pacific Islanders are having at the elite level in the sport of American Football. Audio
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Foraging: nettles
12:30 PM.We meet Maryanne Vella, a nettle fan who grows nettles and uses them in everything from tea to fudge. Audio