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A show with weekly features from the world of Money, Health, Tech, Life and Travel!

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Talking Tech - Clooney and Oxford Team Up to Harness...

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2025/10/21

In this week’s Talking Tech, Poppy discusses Human Rights Lawyer Amal Clooney’s ground-breaking UK initiative that uses AI to improve access to justice for women and girls around the world. The programme explores how artificial intelligence can help support those too often left behind by the justice system.

03:00

Talking Health - ADHD Awareness Month

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2025/10/20

In this week’s Talking Health, Poppy is joined by Dr Alice Ashby, Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director at the London Psychiatry Clinic, and Jennifer, who has ADHD and was treated by Dr Ashby. As October marks ADHD Awareness Month, with this year’s theme "The Many Faces of ADHD," the episode explores how the condition affects people of all backgrounds, genders, and ages.

03:01

Talking Money - Expensive Movie Mistakes

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2025/10/17

In this week’s Talking Money, Daniel takes a look at some of the most costly mistakes ever made in movie history.

03:00

Talking Travel - Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival

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2025/10/16

In this week's Talking Travel, Jessica is joined by TV Chef and Hong Kong Tourism Board Ambassador, Jeremy Pang, to discuss Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival, which begins on the 23rd of October 2025.

03:00

Talking Life - Mother Vérité - The Statue Honouring...

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2025/10/15

In this week's Talking Life, Jessica discusses the statue Mother Vérité – created by British artist Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark, in collaboration with Chelsea Hirschhorn (founder of Frida Mom), depicting a postpartum woman.

03:01

Talking Tech - Are UK Consumers Beginning to Accept AI

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2025/10/14

In this week's Talking Tech, Poppy highlights an IBM study showing rising public trust in AI, with 74% comfortable using AI assistants for decisions. The report points to growing opportunities for businesses to use adaptive “agentic AI” to improve customer experience and productivity.

03:01

Talking Health - Healthy Hearing Habits

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2025/10/13

In this week's Talking Health, Jessica discusses using headphones and ensuring good ear health.

03:01

Talking Money - Why Investors Are Flocking to Gold

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2025/10/10

In this week’s Talking Money, Daniel explores why investors seem to flock to gold in times of economic uncertainty.

03:01

Talking Travel - Florida

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2025/10/09

In this week’s Talking Travel, Rory talks a trip to Florida to see what there is for UK tourists to do in the sunshine state.

03:00

Talking Life - Salivary Gland Cancer Awareness

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2025/10/08

In this week's Talking Life, Jessica is joined by Dr Robert Metcalf to raise awareness of Salivary Gland Cancer, a rare form of cancer that often gets forgotten and is in desperate need of more funding and research.

03:01

Talking Tech - The Social Network Turns 15 - and Its...

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2025/10/07

In this week's Talking Tech, Poppy marks 15 years since The Social Network, reflecting on how its themes of power, connection, and control still define the digital age. She links the film’s warnings to today’s UK debates over the Online Safety Act, AI moderation, and free speech, noting how Zuckerberg’s story foreshadowed our modern struggles with loneliness, digital dependency, and the true cost of living online.

03:01

Talking Health - Arrhythmia Awareness

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2025/10/06

In this week's Talking Health, Jessica is joined by Rebecca Reid, a marathon world record holder who lives with an arrhythmia, to discuss how cardiovascular disease is the world’s biggest killer.

03:01

Talking Money - Small Money Business Struggles

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2025/10/03

In this week’s Talking Money, Etty is joined by James Shore, Managing Director of iO Finance Partners, to discuss the challenges facing SMEs - with one of the biggest being the lack of lending available, which is stunting their growth.

03:01

Talking Travel – UK Commuter Culture

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2025/10/02

In this week’s Talking Travel, Rory talks about the statistics behind our commutes, and how varied the UK’s commuter picture really is, talking about how long the average journey into work takes and what we use to get there.

03:00

Talking Life - Redefining Retirement

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2025/10/01

In this week's Talking Life, Jessica is joined by Nick Sanderson, the CEO of the Audley Group, to discuss a new survey of people aged 55 and over conducted by Audley Group, which has found that being an explorer and a lifelong learner are among the most popular types of retirement lifestyles.

03:01

Talking Tech - Could Robots Help Solve the UK’s...

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2025/09/30

In this week's Talking Tech, Poppy explains how robots could be helping to save the housing crisis, as an Oxfordshire construction company has turned to robots in an effort to speed up housebuilding and help tackle the UK’s housing shortage.

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Talking Health - Ataxia Awareness

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2025/09/29

In this week's Talking Health, Jessica is joined by Dr Julie Greenfield from the charity Ataxia UK to discuss Ataxia, which is a collection of rare diseases that affects thousands of people in the UK, and Omaveloxolone (Omav), a new drug that has been approved in Scotland and is awaiting approval in the rest of the UK.

03:00

Talking Money - Flexible, Innovative Lending for...

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2025/09/26

In this week's Talking Money, Jessica is joined by Jack Smith, the founder and CEO of Love Finance, to discuss how UK small businesses are struggling in the current economy and what they can do.

03:01

Talking Travel – Perth, Australia

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2025/09/25

In this week’s Talking Travel, Rory takes a trip to WA – Western Australia, and its capital city Perth, to see what’s going on in the heart of Australia’s largest state.

03:00

Talking Life - Anticipatory Aid

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2025/09/24

In this week's Talking Life, Etty is joined by Christina Bennett, from Start Network, to discuss the Start Network's new policy paper urging governments, the UN, and INGOs themselves to change their approach to humanitarian aid.

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