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This Way Up is a two-hour programme which explores the stories and issues around things we use and consume. Entertaining and informative, it includes global and local correspondents, mini features, product tests, studio discussions and a themed feature each week. Digital Life is also part of the show. Primary Format : News Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : New Zealand Region : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of This Way Up Podcasts Methings.com listings of This Way Up Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of This Way Up Food waste First up- how much of the food you buy ends up in the bin and who's to blame? We speak to Tristram Stuart and the big supermarket chains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sting pain index Justin Schmidt's an entomologist who's spent years developing his pain rating scale for insect stings. He's been stung thousands of times all in the name of research! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iPlot: Compost progress Colin Walker drops in to our urban veggie patch to see how the compost heap's getting on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public urination The Parisian authorities are getting serious about people urinating in public. They're using everything from splash-back wall coverings to undercover police surveillance. Susana Ferreira's been out on the 'pipi patrol'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second skin Rahul Ganguli of Teledyne Scientific's on a team of US scientists developing a clever way to stop barnacles and all sorts of other marine life building up on ships' hulls. It could save boat-owners a fortune in fuel costs and maintenance bills! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bread matters Andrew Whitley is a baker and one of the founders of the Real Bread Campaign in the UK. He reckons modern bread is less nutritious, and is causing health problems like Coeliac disease and gluten intolerance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cellphone cancer risk? Peter Griffin on the long-awaited World Health Organisation's Interphone study which explores the link between cellphone use and cancer. The full report's not even out yet and already people are questioning the way the research has been conducted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iPlot: Potato planting Watch out the psyllid's about! It's a nasty bug originally from North America that could damage your potato crop. Colin Walker and MAF's Karen Pugh looks at how home gardeners can keep the psyllid at bay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sourdough bread We get flour and water and a bit of free range bacteria together with Maggie Forest. It's an easy way to start a sourdough and make your own tasty bread. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NYC outdoor smoking ban Sarah di Gregorio lives in New York where smoking in city parks and on beaches could soon be banned. Also millions of car rego stickers are falling off windscreens due to faulty glue. It's become a political issue! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bee populations Another perspective on Colony Collapse Disorder, the label used to describe the massive falls in bee numbers in the US and Europe. Professor Lawrence Harder says that bee populations are actually increasing globally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iPlot: sowing salad seedlings Head gardener Colin Walker plans our planting cycle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Match-making councils David McNeill beams in from Japan where a falling population is turning local councils into matchmakers, organising gardening and cycling events for singles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Airline seating Airlines are looking for ways to change traditional seating patterns, experimenting with things like getting rid of overhead storage lockers and using mezzanine floors in the cabin. Jason Paur reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slippery creatures Jan-Henning Dirks is working on a new insect repellent: a slippery coating you can apply to surfaces to stop insects' feet gripping. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beer history Mark Denny's a physicist and keen home-brewer who's looking at the way beer developed from leftover soggy bread mix to today's micro-brewed craft ales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New technology and writing Is digital technology killing our ability to write? Stanford University English professor Andrea Lunsford's been studying thousands of exam and essay papers before and after the PC, spell-checkers and text-speak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preserving silence Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton is trying to protect and preserve silence against the incursions of man-made noise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nuts: Almonds We get up close and personal with the almond with Alison Sandle, an ancient nut that's mentioned in the Bible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wine-boxes We're speaking to economics professor Mike Veseth who studies the global wine market about the importance of the wine-box. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website