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The Bigger Picture: Political history or a blip?; dandies and punks; Britain and the space race

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Political history or a blip?; dandies and punks; Britain and the space race
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University considers the latest opinion poll putting Labour in fourth place and wonders if history is being made or whether it is just a temporary blip? He looks at the politics and culture of music and dress from punk and Thatcher's new romantics through to a very modern dandy. And he comments on the race to be Europe's first spaceport, which may be won by Britain.
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Professor Tim Evans


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Gadgets & Gizmos: How to create realistic fake videos

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: How to create realistic fake videos
Steve Caplin on Facebook's closing down of fake review sites and Stanford University's tool that lets you convincingly put words into people's mouths in videos. There's the world's most efficient vehicle, a fan that's also a pen, camera, recording device and phone, the Musicians' Union complaining about classical music on streaming services, an LED spirit level, the speed of 5G and Amazon's airborne Neighbourhood Watch idea.
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Steve Caplin


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The Bigger Picture: Boris vs Hunt, HK protests and currency wars and Chernobyl on TV

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Boris vs Hunt, HK protests and currency wars and Chernobyl on TV
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex Collect compares and contrasts the two contenders for the leadership of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. He also considers whether the protests in Hong Kong are emblematic of bigger stresses and strains involving the US, China and Europe. Lastly, he looks at the Sky/HBO TV series, Chernobyl, which he considers one of the best political TV dramas of all time.
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Professor Tim Evans


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Sex in space, virtual Stonehenge and voice-activated Monopoly

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Sex in space, virtual Stonehenge and voice-activated Monopoly
Steve Caplin gets all steamed up, with stories about sex in space, on Instagram, on DVD and more. He also waxes lyrical about the new 360-degree webcam at Stonehenge but is less enthused about a voice-activated version of Monopoly. There's a family-friendly beehive seeking crowd-funding, Japanese DNA matchmaking and NatWest's new way of using selfies for indentification.
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Steve Caplin


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The Business of Film: Toy Story 4

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Toy Story 4
James Cameron-Wilson on the UK box office, where Aladdin's 4-week chart-topping run was ended by the success of Toy Story 4's opening (though both are Disney films). James reviews that and the new entry at #5, BrightBurn, as well as Child's Play at #9. For his home release of the week, he has chosen If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the James Baldwin novel, which picked up the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Wood Group, Petrofac, Stagecoach & Carpetright

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Wood Group, Petrofac, Stagecoach & Carpetright
Helal Miah of The Share Centre looks back at numbers from Wood Group, Petrofac, Tullow Oil, Stagecoach, First Group and Carpetright. He also looks ahead to what we might expect from Sainsbury's, Associated British Foods, Persimmon and St. Modwen.
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Helal Miah


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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Dixons Carphone, Ashtead, Berkeley & more

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Dixons Carphone, Ashtead, Berkeley & more
Helal Miah of The Share Centre looks at recent numbers from Dixons Carphone, Ashtead, Berkeley, Saga, Whitbread and Carnival and looks ahead to what we might expect from Wood Group, Petrofac, Tullow Oil and Stagecoach.
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Helal Miah


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The Bigger Picture: Facebook's new currency & why your cash might not be safe in banks

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Facebook's new currency & why your cash might not be safe in banks
Tim Price, director at Price Value Partners discusses the move towards a cashless society and whether it's an inevitable consequence of the financial crisis. What effect might the advent of Facebook's new cryptocurrency, Libra, have on banks, central banks and even governments and their control of money? What might the possibility of a Marxist government in the UK mean for investors? Tim posits the possibility that cash in banks may shrink overnight!
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Tim Price


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The Business of Film: Men In Black International

Simon Rose
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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Men In Black International
James Cameron-Wilson on the latest UK box office numbers, with Aladdin clinging to the #1 spot for the fourth week. New release Men In Black International was just beaten into #2 spot while Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona doc came in at #9. James's home release of the week is the 1983 political thriller Under Fire with Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman. James also reveals the casting gossip about the latest James Bond movie.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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Gadgets & Gizmos: New mobile-only streaming service Quibi

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: New mobile-only streaming service Quibi
Steve Caplin ponders Jeffrey Katzenberg's new short-form mobile-only streaming service Quibi, which will have a Spielberg horror series viewable only at night. Also hydrogen-powered vertical take-off taxis, Ikea's robotic furniture, a 360-degree rooftop infinity pool for London, how atom bomb testing could help find fake paintings, a new bike direction indicator and taking the guesswork out of best-before dates.
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Steve Caplin


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