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Next week we’ll be talking technology with the President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Lord Alec Broers, who’s giving this year’s Reith lectures. It’s part of a special series which will include a survey of your views and a vote on the most significant technological innovation of the last two hundred years. If you have any questions or comments you would like to put to Lord Broers on the growth of technology and its implications for us as consumers get in touch.
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On Today's You & Yours: We report from Ennerdale in the Lake District where they aim to return it to the wilderness of a previous century. And - once upon a time it was queues for cabbage patch dolls, this year it's a panic for playstations. We examine the economics of the annual Christmas toy shortage.
Auction World
Auction World's programmes made for exciting television - a live bidding war as viewers phoned in to compete for what they were led to believe were bargains. But was it all as it seemed?
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Onspeed
A company in London has developed software that allows users who don't have broadband to increase their internet connection speed, regardless of where they live or who provides their telephone line. Sending and receiving e mails is up to 8 times faster. Is it better than broadband?
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Christmas presents series
In the third part of our series all this week on Christmas presents we look at the growth in so-called "virtual" Christmas presents - a big feature of the charity industry this year.
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Britain's most complained about company
A rogue telesales operation, which earned the title 'Britain's most complained about company' has recently been banned for a total of 25 years.
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Toy shortage
Every Christmas it seems we hear of parents' despair that this year's must have gift - be it a teletubby, a cabbage patch doll or a Playstation 2 - is sold out. Is this a deliberate marketing ploy designed to create a shopping frenzy? Or is it just too difficult to predict what will be this year's hot toy?
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Wild Ennerdale
In a unique approach to making the wilds of Cumbria even more wild, the three main landowners in the Lake District's Ennerdale Valley have decided to let it truly go back to nature. The Forestry Commission, the National Trust, and United Utilities want to let this seven mile long valley grow unchecked, for exactly one hundred "wilderness" years.
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 Liz Barclay:
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