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Rugby World Cup tickets
1:15 PM.Tickets for the 2011 Rugby World Cup started going on sale last month to the general public. So how easy will it be to buy a few extra tickets and sell them on for a profit? We check out the fine… Read more Audio
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Norway: The Russ
12:50 PM.The Russ is a traditional party time for graduating high school students in Norway. They cruise around in pimped up coaches dressed in multi-coloured boiler suits wearing peaked caps. Jorn Tomter's a… Read more Audio
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Pests: Rats
12:20 PM.With the weather getting colder rats are heading inside to nice warm lofts and houses. Pest controller Paul Chapman has some tips on how to keep them out of your home. Audio
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What's in our margarine?
12:15 PM.We're lifting the lid on margarine to see what's in the stuff with Jennifer Moss of Unilever, the makers of Flora margarine. Audio
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Food Culture in the Pacific
1:35 PM.Dr Roger Haden, author of 'Food Culture in the Pacific Islands' on the foods and styles which have developed across the region from fermented taro to the advent of the umu. Audio
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North Korean Restaurants
1:25 PM.Journalist Sebastian Strangio reports on the phenomenon of Pyongyang, a chain of restaurants run by the North Korean government with a menu including food and dancing girls. Audio
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Bits and bytes: Books and music
1:15 PM.Technology correspondent Bill Thompson on Apple and the changing model of online music storage, Google's foray into digital books and the demise of the floppy disk. Audio
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Laughing gas
12:50 PM.NPR's Robert Krulwhich on the strange scientific origins of laughing gas. Audio
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Bumpology baby science: Part 1
12:35 PM.New Scientist writer Linda Geddes on the different stages of her first pregnancy; from old wive's tales to scientific research. This week; gender, food cravings and the effects of stress. Audio
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Foraging: pine
12:25 PM.Foraging for free food with Johanna Knox. This week, pine, the edible tree that produces nuts and even makes a lovely cup of tea. Audio
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Dodgy Frenchmen
12:15 PM.French correspondent Charles Bremner on a fare dodging scam on the Paris Metro, Air France's 'fat tax' and the trend of slimming cream for men. Audio
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Thanatourism
1:45 PM.How sites of natural disasters, murders and torture become visitor sites and tourist attractions. Brigitte Sion's just organised a global conference on the subject. Audio
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Url shortening services
1:30 PM.Peter Griffin's looking at URL shortening services. They're the quick and easy way to reduce all those unwieldy web addresses to a size you can easily text or email. Audio
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Cuban mobiles and Coca Colla
1:15 PM.Mobile phone use is on the rise in Cuba but nobody's making any calls! Plus a Bolivian soft drink with a strangely familiar name. Rory Carroll reports. Audio
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Tales of things
12:45 PM.Chris Speed of talesofthings.com. It's an easy way to attach your memories, images and video to possessions like a bike, clock, or that special hat. Audio
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Goalkeepers' shirt colours
12:35 PM.If you're a goal-keeper wanting to stop more goals the colour of shirt you're wearing can make all the difference. Iain Greenlees is a sports psychologist who led the study. Audio
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Brand-free cigarettes
12:25 PM.The Australian government's just become the first government in the world to ban cigarette branding completely. Janet Hoek from Otago University studies the role of brands and smoking. Audio
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Marmite vs Vegemite
12:15 PM.A listener email about yeast-based spreads gets us asking about the difference between the various 'mites' on the market. Associate Professor Matt Golding of Massey University helps out. Audio
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Web Harvest
1:50 PM.The National Library's web harvest takes a snapshot of more than 130 million web pages for the historians of the future. Courtney Johnston's one of the harvesters. Audio
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Nail polish
1:40 PM.Carmen Drahl of Chemical and Engineering News on the clever science behind nail polish. Audio
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Sniffing out bed bugs
1:15 PM.Jeremy Ecker lives in New York where he hunts for bed bugs with his specially trained sniffer dogs. He's on the front line of the Big Apple's bed bug epidemic! Audio
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Tech news: ACTA and iPhone
12:50 PM.Bill Thompson reports. After being shrouded in secrecy the draft terms of the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement go public. Plus a story about a bloke who leaves his phone in the pub. Audio
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Spread and palm oil
12:35 PM.Finding a low fat spread without palm oil in it. Laurence Eyres helps out. Audio
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Ice cream and hokey pokey
12:15 PM.The history of ice cream with Jeri Quinzio and we get the scoop on who invented hokey pokey! Audio