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Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Christmas Gift Guide
Steve Caplin has a sackful of Christmas gift suggestions that should arrive before the holiday. For the extravagant, there's a 2-storey inflatable catamaran or a pimped iPhone 14 Pro Max. For the rest of us, choose between apps to produce spectacular portraits, a smart door lock, a space-saving Christmas tree, kitchen scales, a yodelling pickle, a rechargeable lantern, a travelling plug set, a folding fan, a belt for sailing through security, a suitcase to beat size restrictions and an app to keep track of all your online shopping.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: The Nurses' Strike, Raab Bullying Claims & 2022 Summary

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The Nurses' Strike, Raab Bullying Claims & 2022 Summary
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the nurses' strike. When all solutions to the NHS's problems are difficult, he feels emphasis should be on patient outcomes. He looks at the new bullying claims against Dominic Raab, wondering why the relationship between government and the civil service has deteriorated so markedly. And he summarises an extraordinary year which, he says, shows just how the Conservatives have thrown away most of the advantages they held.
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Mike Indian

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The Business of Film: Violent Night & The Cat and the Canary

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Violent Night & The Cat and the Canary
James Cameron-Wilson analyses the UK box office, down another 33%, with Matilda the Musical still #1. Seasonal horror film Violent Night enters at #3 which "puts the X into Xmas". To his surprise, James found it outrageously funny but also touching. He also praises the Blu-Ray restoration of the 1939 horror comedy The Cat and the Canary, starring Bob Hope, a view with which Simon concurs.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Bigger Picture: Progress report on the PM, government U-turns & divisions in the SNP

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Progress report on the PM, government U-turns & divisions in the SNP
Politicial commentator Mike Indian says that PM Rishi Sunak should not get bogged down in detail, but work out what to concentrate on and make himself visible where it counts. He discusses government U-turns and what the Chester by-election means for Labour, suggesting it reinforces the idea that the party will form the next government. With Stephen Flynn the new SNP leader in Westminster, does this mean that Nicola Sturgeon's days are now effectively numbered?
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Mike Indian

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Wheeled suitcases, hydrogen bikes, electronic noses & brain chips
Tech buff Steve Caplin finds an answer to Simon Rose's earlier question about who invented the wheeled suitcase. There's a pilot-it-yourselves VTOL sightseeing plane, a hydrogen-powered commuter bike and supercar, an electronic nose to detect prostate cancer, a toilet sensor to identify cholera outbreaks, a gel to kill harmful bacteria, nuclear-reactor robots to repair the 3,000 malfunctioning satellites, Elon Musk's brain chip and Apple allowing people in the UK to repair their own phones. Steve says, "Don't even think about it."
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Steve Caplin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The economics of football clubs

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The economics of football clubs
With the World Cup in full flow and Manchester United up for sale, Russ Mould of A J Bell looks at the economics of football clubs. Although Man United was worth $78m when it floated in 1991 and is, in theory, set to sell for upwards of $4bn, for investors of late it, and every other club, has proved a poor investment. Russ explains how modern football financing works, pointing out that, in good times, all the money seems to go to the talent.
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Russ Mould

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The Bigger Picture: How can the UK grow, cutting overseas students & India taking China's place

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: How can the UK grow, cutting overseas students & India taking China's place
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University suggests ways in which the UK can return to growth and compete internationally, but wonders which government – if any – will do what is necessary. He discusses the mindless vandalism of cracking down on overseas students. And he considers whether China's increasing economic woes will benefit India, the world's biggest democracy.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Matilda the Musical, Strange World & She Said

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Matilda the Musical, Strange World & She Said
James Cameron-Wilson casts his eye over a lacklustre box office, despite 5 new films in the top 10 places. At #1 is Matilda the Musical, which James thought might be the worst musical he's ever seen, unsubtle, unengaging and with no sense of reality. He was unimpressed with Disney animation Strange World at #3. But he was full of praise for She Said (#4), about sexual harassment in Hollywood, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of Pong, remote control worms, vegan honey & lethal robots
Steve Caplin fills Simon Rose in on the latest tech developments, after commemorating 50 years of Pong. There's a backlash against Tesla drivers over Elon Musk, Alexa turning kids' ideas into animated stories, remote control worms, San Francisco's killer robots, circuits printed on contact lenses, vegan honey, the first hydrogen jet engine test and ride-on suitcases for adults.
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Steve Caplin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: What's behind perkier markets? Has Santa come early?

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: What's behind perkier markets? Has Santa come early?
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor talks to Simon Rose about the reasons behind the recent better performance for markets around the world and the recent losses for the dollar. Although the outlook for the UK economy looks fairly bleak at present, it feels – as far as markets are concerned – as if the Santa rally has come early this year.
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Victoria Scholar

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