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The Business of Film: Dog, Thirteen Minutes & Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Dog, Thirteen Minutes & Texas Chainsaw Massacre
With Uncharted still riding high, James Cameron-Wilson reviews last weekend's UK box office. The only big new film is Channing Tatum's directorial debut, Dog, at #4 in which he also stars, oddly marketed as a family film. Resorting to streamed movies, James reviews box-ticking tornado disaster movie Thirteen Minutes with Thora Birch and Anne Heche and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the 9th in the franchise, which he found a cut above the average modern horror, though not for the faint-hearted.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Interactive cartoons, fog-free glasses and bugging Rubik's cubes & coffee cans

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Interactive cartoons, fog-free glasses and bugging Rubik's cubes & coffee cans
Share Radio's tech whizz Steve Caplin waxes lyrical to Simon Rose about Netflix's interactive Cat Burglar cartoon. He also discusses Ben Gurion Uni's line-of-sight bugging device that can detect speech from objects like coffee cans and Venetian blinds, Sony's new ear buds that allow you to hear ambient noise, a way of stopping glasses fogging up, some of the bizarre online shopping substitutions, a versatile portable guitar amp and Tesla's odd response to news that cars have been suddenly braking at high speeds.
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Steve Caplin


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The Business of Film: Uncharted, Death on the Nile and Marry Me

Simon Rose
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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Uncharted, Death on the Nile and Marry Me
With box office up 12%, James Cameron-Wilson highlights new #1 'Uncharted' with Tom Holland, based on a video game which he enjoyed and hopes is the first of a franchise. At #3 is Kenneth Branagh's remake of 'Death on the Nile' which James found pretty but dull. Only making the #6 spot is 'Marry Me', a romcom with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson which, to his surprise, he found both romantic and highly witty.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Inflation and its effect on savings & bonds

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Inflation and its effect on savings & bonds
Laith Khalaf of A J Bell looks at the recent UK inflation numbers and wonders if the Bank of England is right to consider the rise transitory or not. It doesn't bode well for NS&I's new Green Savings Bond, he points out, particularly if savers expect interest rates to keep rising. He discusses whether QE has had an effect on inflation and what is happening in the bond market.
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Laith Khalaf


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The Bigger Picture: Divergent attitudes on Ukraine and the war of words in UK politics

Simon Rose
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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Divergent attitudes on Ukraine and the war of words in UK politics
Political commentator Mike Indian talks to Simon Rose about the divergent attitudes of the UK and other western countries to Russia and the Ukraine. He also discusses several aspects of UK politics: Jacob Rees-Mogg's comments on Brexit and trade; the fallout from Boris Johnson's remarks on Jimmy Savile in Parliament; and John Major's public criticism of the current Prime Minister.
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Mike Indian


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Tickets to space, Alfa's NFT plug-in hybrid, expanding cars & Tinder's blind dates

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Tickets to space, Alfa's NFT plug-in hybrid, expanding cars & Tinder's blind dates
Gadget guru Steve Caplin talks to Simon Rose about tickets going on sale for Virgin Galactic's space trips, a snip at £333,000. He discusses National Grid's plan for plundering e-car batteries, Alfa Romeo's NFT plug-in hybrid and the iEV X expanding car. Tinder is experimenting with blind dates, there's a tech necklace that can read chin movements, a crowdfunded camera dolly and Simon chips in with a low-tech jar opener.
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Steve Caplin


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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The US tech sector, interest rates & the Fed

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The US tech sector, interest rates & the Fed
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor assesses the fortunes of some US tech stocks in the news recently, including Peloton, Uber and Disney. With inflation unexpectedly rising again to a 40-year high, she considers what the Federal Reserve might be able to do with its demand-side tools, when many problems are on the supply side of the economy.
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Victoria Scholar


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The Bigger Picture: How to ameliorate NHS waiting lists, the crisis in policing & nuclear fusion

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: How to ameliorate NHS waiting lists, the crisis in policing & nuclear fusion
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University looks at the shocking growth in NHS waiting lists and wonders if providing tax breaks on private health provision for the elderly might prove a helpful way forward. He also considers the crisis in policing, suggesting a possible solution, even though few politicians might be willing to think long enough ahead. And he ends on an optimistic note, hoping that the recent breakthrough at JET might herald a coming age of nuclear fusion.
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Professor Tim Evans


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The Business of Film: Jackass Forever, Moonfall, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Munich & Oscar noms

Simon Rose
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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Jackass Forever, Moonfall, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Munich & Oscar noms
James Cameron-Wilson looks at the first box office chart since Covid to have 5 films taking over £1m at the weekend. #2 is Jackass Forever ("sickeningly awful") while Roland Emmerich's Moonfall is #4 ("so bad it's enjoyable"). Only making #17 is Oscar-nominated Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. On Apple+ is the disappointing The Sky Is Everywhere but James loved Munich: The Edge of War on Netflix with Jeremy Irons as Chamberlain. He also runs down the list of Oscar nominations, contrasting them with the odd nominations from BAFTA.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Smart windows, smart pens, a walk-through kaleidoscope & sugar cane bollards

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Smart windows, smart pens, a walk-through kaleidoscope & sugar cane bollards
After waxing lyrical about progress made in nuclear fusion, tech guru Steve Caplin discusses smart windows and smart pens, how to repel mosquitoes, the world's biggest walk-through kaleidoscope, a new ultra-strong material developed at MIT, adding touch to the VR experience, a Covid breathalyser, sugar cane traffic bollards and an electric car that can power your house for three days if there's a power cut.
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Steve Caplin


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