You and Yours Episodes Episode guide
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Call You and Yours: Sunday Opening Hours
Should the relaxation of Sunday trading laws for the Olympics be made permanent?
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Pay for a day, free entry all year
Who really wins from tourist attractions offering 'free' annual passes?
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Payday loan fine, Olympic PR and the TVs of the future
How other nations are using the London Olympics to promote themselves.
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09/08/2012
Why the bank account you pay for may not deliver the product you thought.
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The future of the tobacco industry
Winifred Robinson debates plain cigarette packaging and how to spend a PPI windfall.
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Call You and Yours: Ensuring a lasting Olympic legacy
How do we ensure a lasting Olympic legacy? Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker.
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Can patients with private medical insurance still choose their doctor?
Changes to BUPA insurance, competitions for ideas, and the market for posh pants.
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Spam texts
A threat to ticket offices at train stations, solar-powered skyscrapers and spam texts.
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Great British Day Out
How is the Great British Day Out coping with the wet weather, the Olympics and recession?
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01/08/2012
How to get hold of those elusive remaining Olympic tickets. Consumer news with Shari Vahl.
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Call You and Yours: Are you cheerful or cynical about the Olympics?
Julian Worricker asks listeners how they feel about the Olympic Games.
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First work day of the Olympics: can the transport cope?
How is the transport system coping with the first day of the Olympic Games?
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Green-fingered thieves, and the future of milk in the UK
Garden theft, the future of milk, and the Y&Y postal experiment. With Nick Ravenscroft.
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The Olympic effect in Barcelona and London, and 'Mate Crime'
What impact have the Olympics had on business? We ask firms in London and Barcelonan.
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25/07/2012
What can and what can't you take into an Olympic venue? Shari Vahl has a definitive guide.
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Call You and Yours: Prepared to pay more?
Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. Is price the bottom line?
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Making money from the Olympics, collective energy buying and a fair price for milk
The county clubbing together to haggle for cheaper energy bills.
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Trading standards at the Olympics, burial plots, and extended Sunday hours
Peter White explores the cost of dying and why Sundays should be kept special.
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How well do the police deal with detainees with mental illness?
Olympic transport, the police and mental illness, and the cure-all 'miracle' solution.
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The insurance fraudster caught in the act
Do first-class stamped letters really arrive before those posted with second-class stamps?
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Call You and Yours: The Railways
Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker on the package of investment in the railways.
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The right to walk away from your mobile phone contract
Breaking mobile phone contracts, barring disabled people from buses and local shop parking
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Bribery in business, cheap theatre seats and football kit
Bribery in the grocery trade and images of ageing in advertising. With Peter White.
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O2 network problems, should libraries ever get rid of books, and When I'm 65: The University of the Third Age
The latest on O2's network problems, and should libraries ever get rid of books?
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Social care, Spanish properties and age-friendly cities
The future of social care in England. Presented by Shari Vahl.
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Call You and Yours: Working when I'm 65
Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. Working beyond 65 - who benefits most?
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Nick Hewer on working at 75, Lesley Joseph on carers and the UK's first hand transplant
Nick Hewer on working at 75, Lesley Joseph on carers, and the UK's first hand transplant.
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Dementia village and carp 'cheats'
Dealing with dementia Dutch-style, and 'unhappy hour' at a Yorkshire pub.
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The nutritionally perfect airline meal
Healthy convenience foods, and the technology making ageing less of a pain.
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Busting health and safety myths
Busting 'health and safety' myths, ageing and exercise, the launch of YouView internet TV.