A Week of You and Yours

A Week of You and Yours

BBC Radio 4's daily consumer programme is presented by Julian Worricker, Winifred Robinson and Peter White. You and Yours brings news, discussion and special investigations on a wide range of consumer subjects, everyday between 12 noon and 1. Topics include health, energy, leisure, retail and disability, and the podcast features the best of the week's programmes, with a new episode published every Friday.

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Recent episodes (4)

  • Train Fines and Child Internet Safety

    Fri, 25 May 12

    Duration:
    30 mins

    Available:
    26 days remaining

    This week, we looked at why passengers are being forced to pay full fares and being fined because of perfectly innocent mistakes and examined the problems with the work programme designed to help people off long-term sick benefits. We also explored practical guidance into how to protect your children online in a follow-up to your feedback on our discussion about pornography on the internet, and did you know that your smartphone can send and receive texts to premium rate lines run by criminals? It's all in this week's podcast.

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  • School Dinners, DAB radios and UCAS forms

    Fri, 18 May 12

    Duration:
    48 mins

    Available:
    19 days remaining

    This week, we talked to young blogger Martha Payne about how healthy school dinners really are and discussed the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency's claim that voluntary recalls are working perfectly well. We looked at the digital listening target for 2015 against the latest RAJAR figures, explore the practicalities of a blanket opt-out for pornography websites and revealed how students are cheating on their UCAS forms.

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  • Spoof reviewers and OFSTED inspectors.

    Fri, 11 May 12

    Duration:
    26 mins

    Available:
    12 days remaining

    This week, we asked whether OFSTED inspectors should take cash from schools to advise them on how to get through inspections and we explored the spoof reviews that are making Paul Ross posters one of Amazon’s most highly-rated products. We had a go at making Pretzels in our retail special and looked at the embarrassing scandal forcing drinks company Diageo to apologise to a tiny beer maker.

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  • Kevin McCloud, Insurance Fraud and more

    Fri, 4 May 12

    Duration:
    35 mins

    Available:
    5 days remaining

    This week, we asked what the rules are when celebrity sound-alikes are used in adverts, we spoke to Kevin McCloud from Channel 4’s Grand Designs about his thoughts on eco housing and the Green Deal. We discussed the claim that professional services for small businesses in the UK are so expensive they’re strangling enterprise and forcing start-up companies to look overseas and Shari Vahl joined officers from the new Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department on a dawn raid in West Yorkshire.

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