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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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| Wednesday 30 March |
 Listen to You and Yours for Wednesday 30 March
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DIAL R FOR REVENGE
Eleanor Greene was fed up with unsolicited automated telephone calls - so she hatched a plan to get her own back . She explains how she did it and we also hear from Matt Peacock from Ofcom.
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POST OFFICE
Small packages and envelopes are much cheaper for Royal Mail to handle than bulky items. They are planning a radical change to their pricing policy to reflect this. Lorna Clarkson is the Commercial Pricing Director at Royal Mail.
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NOODLES
The market for noodles is booming - at home and for eating out. Shari Vahl reports.
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IMMOBILISED CARS
Car immobilisers can themselves be effectively immobilised by radio waves. The RAC and the AA are reporting thousands of call outs each year to motorists whose electronic keys won't work in certain radio hotspots: Tim Shallcross is the technical wizard at the AA Motoring Trust.
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FOOD IN CARE HOMES
After Jamie Oliver and school meals we turn the spotlight on the food elderlypeople are being given to eat in care homes. A report estimated that one in five residents is suffering from malnutrition and according to some critics the problem is made worse by the poor quality of food provision. We hear from Michelle Hanson and from Shelia Scott of the National Care Homes Association, Gillian Dalley, Chief Executive of the Relatives and Residents Association and Julia Ryan, a senior lecturer in School of Nursing at Salford University.
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HULL HOUSING
Gyroscope, a co-operative set up by a group of green anarchists in Hull 20 years ago could see its work demolished by John Prescott's Pathfinder initiative. Richard Wellswent to Hull and met one of the group's founder members, Martin Newman.
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 Liz Barclay:
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 Winifred Robinson:
Winifred Robinson joined the You and Yours team in 2001 ...more info |
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