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The Business of Film: Wolfwalkers, His House & Luxor

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Wolfwalkers, His House & Luxor
With most British cinemas closed, James Cameron-Wilson looks at the box office for Scotland only and the bizarre #1 film. He discusses new animated cinema release Wolfwalkers, tipped as a possible Oscar nominee. With most of us restricted to watching film at home he reviews the British refugee horror film His House on Netflix and Luxor on Curzon Home Cinema with Andrea Riseborough in the lead role.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Bigger Picture: US Presidential election, a Christmas vaccine & tensions in Downing Street

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: US Presidential election, a Christmas vaccine & tensions in Downing Street
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the victory of Joe Biden in the US Presidential election and Donald Trump's response. He considers the importance of Kamala Harris as the incoming Vice-President. He speculates on what Biden's presidency will mean for the United Kingdom and what effect it might have on the UK Internal Market Bill. With a Christmas vaccine looking possible, he discusses the tensions in Downing Street after the departure of communications chief Lee Cain and asks if Dominic Cummings can survive.
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Mike Indian


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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: The Covid rally, Persimmon, Burberry and L&G

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: The Covid rally, Persimmon, Burberry and L&G
Graham Spooner of The Share Centre discusses this week's Covid market rally before turning his attention to recent company news from Persimmon, Burberry and Legal & General. Looking ahead, he suggests what we might expect from SSE, Experian and Imperial Brands.
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Graham Spooner


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The Business of Film: The Burnt Orange Heresy, Philophobia & Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: The Burnt Orange Heresy, Philophobia & Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
With cinemas closing once more, James Cameron-Wilson looks at the last box office chart for some time. He managed to get to see two new films to review, The Burnt Orange Heresy with Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger and British film Philophobia. For home streaming, he recommends Sasha Baron-Cohen's Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, spearing the state of contemporary America.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Lobsteropolis, Amazon's Swedish gaffes and the amazing new Oculus Quest

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Lobsteropolis, Amazon's Swedish gaffes and the amazing new Oculus Quest
Steve Caplin marvels at a new Saatchi Gallery exhibition which you can tour without leaving home. He highlights Amazon's disastrously translated Swedish launch, looks at the app that can tell if you have Covid-19 from your cough, is fascinated by diamonds made from the sky and reports on a patient whose leg was treated at a different hospital than hers. He was hugely impressed by the new Oculus Quest 2, bringing realistic VR gaming into the home.
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Steve Caplin


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The Bigger Picture: What does the US election mean, is Labour at war with itself & is a second lockdown sensible?

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: What does the US election mean, is Labour at war with itself & is a second lockdown sensible?
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University looks at the US presidential election and asks what it means both for America and the rest of the world. With Sir Keir Starmer suspending former leader Jeremy Corbyn, is the Labour Party about to engage in civil war? And as the second wave lockdown begins, he asks if the government has adopted the right strategy.
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Professor Tim Evans


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The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: M&S, Sainsbury's, AstraZeneca & Ass Brit Food

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The Week That Was and The Week Ahead

The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: M&S, Sainsbury's, AstraZeneca & Ass Brit Food
Helal Miah of The Share Centre looks at recent news from Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, AstraZeneca and Associated British Foods, all affected in different ways by the pandemic. He looks ahead to what might be expected from Burberry, B&M and house builders Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey.
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Helal Miah


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Lego braille bricks, robot pothole repairers & jumbo cinemas

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Lego braille bricks, robot pothole repairers & jumbo cinemas
Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, is impressed by Southern Australia powering the whole area by solar panels and by water being discovered on the moon. He discusses Lego Braille bricks, banned works being hidden in Minecraft, a jumbo jet becoming a cinema, 100 years of the Theremin, Amazon's eco-friendly platform, robot pothole repairers, the extraordinary Veelo skateboard motoring why shoppers spend more when using hand-held scanners.
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Steve Caplin


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The Business of Film: The Honest Thief, Pixie, The Climb & Rebecca

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: The Honest Thief, Pixie, The Climb & Rebecca
James Cameron-Wilson examines the UK box office chart, where, with box office takings sharply up, Tenet has been pushed off the #1 slot after 9 weeks, by Two By Two: Overboard. He reviews the new #2, The Honest Thief, with Liam Neeson, Irish gangster comedy Pixie and American cult festival movie The Climb. 80 years after the seminal Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebeca, he discusses Netflix's new version starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Bigger Picture: Is the regional Covid strategy working, Corbyn's suspension & US elections

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Is the regional Covid strategy working, Corbyn's suspension & US elections
Political commentator Mike Indian asks if the Government's regional strategy to cop with the revival of cases of Covid-19 is working. Looking at what's happening in France, he asks if there be a regional or national response. He discusses the EHRC report on Labour and antisemitism, with the former leader Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the party. And he looks at the imminent American Presidential election, wondering if there will be a clear-cut result, given the extraordinary number of advance ballots.
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mike indian


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