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Talking Features

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

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Talking Travel – Food Imports

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2025/07/31

In this week’s Talking Travel, Rory talks about how much of our food travels great distances to get to our supermarket shelves, the damage it can do to the environment and the challenges behind supporting locally grown food.

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Talking Life - Alcohol Free Trends

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2025/07/30

In this week's Talking Life, Jessica is joined by wine expert and strategist, Dan Harwood, from Eisberg Wine, to discuss mindful drinking and the rise of sober curiosity.

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Talking Tech - UK Enforces Tough New Age Checks on...

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2025/07/29

In this week’s Talking Tech, Poppy explains the UK’s Online Safety Act forcing tech firms to verify users’ ages to protect children online, with heavy fines for non-compliance. Platforms use ID checks and AI tools to meet the July deadline, but challenges remain in preventing access by determined teens and ensuring real protection.

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Talking Health - 10,000 steps per day or 7,000?

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2025/07/28

In this week's Talking Health, Jessica discusses the new medical research showing that we should aim for 7,000 steps per day.

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Talking Money - The costs to businesses of losing...

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2025/07/25

In this week's Talking Money, Jessica is joined by tracking technology expert Craig Allen, from ABAX, to discuss the new ABAX survey showing the cost to businesses of workers misplacing company items.

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Talking Travel - Accents and Travel's Odd Relationship

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2025/07/24

In this week’s Talking Travel, Rory talks about how travel changes how we speak – does it matter where we go, does learning a new language make us lose our accent and how do we subconsciously change our speech to match those around us?

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Talking Life - Ice Cream Trends

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2025/07/23

In this week's Talking Life, Jessica is joined by celebrity chef and Cuisinart Ambassador, Briony May Williams, to discuss the nation's thoughts on ice cream and her top tips on how to make great quality ice cream at home.

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Talking Tech - Met Police and Carnival

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2025/07/22

In this week's Talking Tech poppy discusses how the Met Police will deploy live facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival entry points to identify wanted individuals, citing public safety. Civil liberties groups call the move invasive and racially biased, warning it risks targeting the very communities the event celebrates. The Carnival now becomes a flashpoint in the debate over surveillance and civil rights in the UK.

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Talking Health - Could you be suffering with EBS this...

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2025/07/21

In this week's Talking Health, Jessica is joined by DEBRA UK Ambassador Vie Portland to discuss her experience with Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex, or EBS, a painful but little-known genetic skin condition.

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Talking Money - The Price of Influence

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2025/07/18

In this week's Talking Money, Etholle dives into some of the most infamous financial scandals seen in British politics - often influence comes with a price.

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Talking Travel – The Furthest Travellers from Earth

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2025/07/17

In this week’s Talking Travel, Rory talks about how far humans have travelled in space, and the time it takes to arrive at some of our closest landmarks like the international space station, the moon and even mars.

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Talking Life - How dogs help save tortoises

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2025/07/16

In this week's Talking Life, Jessica discusses how dogs are working with The Endangered Wildlife Trust to save South Africa’s most endangered reptile species, the geometric tortoise.

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Talking Tech - How AI Could Transform Patient Safety...

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2025/07/15

In this week's Talking Tech poppy discusses the UK’s move to use AI to monitor NHS data in real time, aiming to spot safety risks early -starting with maternity care in November. Part of a 10-year digital plan, the system flags issues like high stillbirth rates for rapid response. Experts welcome the shift but stress AI must be backed by proper staffing to be effective.

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Talking Health - Protecting Pets in Heatwaves

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2025/07/14

In this week's Talking Health, Etholle discusses the essential tips to help keep your pets safe during the hot weather, she is joined by Everypaw Pet Insurance’s resident vet, Dr Anna Foreman.

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Talking Money - History's Most Expensive Typos

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2025/07/11

In this week's Talking Money, Etholle explores how simple typos, from stray commas to missing hyphens, have led to some of the most costly mistakes in history.

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Talking Travel – Speed Boats

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2025/07/10

In this week’s Talking Travel – Rory talks about speed boats; powerful, often luxury boats that can travel at crazy speeds across the water. From the jet skis you see in summer blockbusters to vehicles used to break world speed records, just how powerful are these kinds of boats?

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Talking Life - Summer Holiday Boredom Busters

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2025/07/09

In this week's Talking Life, Jessica discusses the summer holiday 2025 activity and hobby trends to help you keep busy and have fun this summer!

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Talking Tech - Chat GPT Prompts

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2025/07/08

In this week's Talking Tech poppy explains how to get more thoughtful, detailed, and useful responses from ChatGPT by using four specific prompting techniques that encourage deeper reasoning, balanced analysis, structured insight, and practical guidance.

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Talking Health - How the Body Responds to Hot Weather

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2025/07/07

In this week's Talking Health, Jessica discusses how our bodies respond to the hot weather and how we can keep ourselves and others safe.

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Talking Money - Balancing Work and Family

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2025/07/04

In this week's Talking Money, Etholle is joined by mum and former Olympian Paula Radcliffe, and MetLife UK’s Head of Protection, Phil Jeynes. Together they discuss parents balancing finances, work and families, particularly when their child is ill or injured.

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