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26/01/2012
Consumer news with Winifred Robinson.
How are car dealerships coping with the downturn?
Car dealerships in a downturn, the popularity of drive-thrus and the future of the A380.
Why high street pharmacies are still running short of vital drugs
Chemists short of drugs, rear-facing car seats for children and how shops manipulate us.
Call You and Yours: What are our police for?
With radical reform of our police service underway, what should the role of the police be?
Is compensation culture a myth?
No win no fee legislation and the pull of the nail bar.
Spending confiscated drug money, and telehealth pilots
Spending confiscated drugs money, the future of cars, and how 'telehealth' saves lives.
Accessible websites, airline fees and community libraries
The airline sued over its 'inaccessible' website plus new ways to save libraries.
Council run broadband, carbon in China and low alcohol beer
Julian Worricker looks at a council-run broadband scheme in South Yorkshire.
Call You and Yours
With Julian Worricker. Listeners contribute their views on consumer issues.
How to Fund and Deliver Social Care in England
Featuring social care, faceless hotels, online ads, smarter working, and small investors.
Better holiday protection, foiling metal thieves, and warranties
Better holiday protection, foiling the metal thieves, and an overhaul of private parking.
10/02/2012
A new future for parks, price rises for church weddings and Olympic job promises.
A TV channel devoted to shoes
Cheap student housing, unpaid internships and 24 hour shoe TV.
Call You and Yours: How can we increase the numbers of organ donors?
Should people be forced to become organ donors?
Battle for disability benefits
Battle for disability benefits, cash for old electronics, and can a magazine make you fit?
Faulty breast implants, TV innovations and riot compensation
The plastic surgeons accused of cashing in on the faulty breast implants scandal.
Local currencies & the taxi drivers helping disabled passengers
After Bristol launches its own pound, we find out how other local currencies are doing.
Energy bills, the all-advert radio station, using credit cards on foreign websites
Energy bill confusion, using your credit card on foreign websites and infomercial radio.
Baroness Warsi warned of 'militant secularisation' - is religion in the UK being eroded?
Fake coins, solid wall insulation and dodgy door locks
Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson - could you spot a fake coin?
23/02/2012
Radio 4's Consumer Affairs Programme: Local Councils buying high street shops.
Greek Tourism, Costume Oscars and Learners on the Motorway
Greek tourism, the British company up for the costume Oscar and learners on the motorway.
The cost of residential care and expensive 'free' trials
Two-tier pricing for residential care, and opening cafe and pub toilets to non-customers.
On Call You & Yours - How important is a cultural education for our children?
Who benefits from the Work Programme?
The Work Programme, mobile roaming, homeless choir, Patisserie Valerie, jam or spread?
Back to work schemes, the jam that isn't, and apps on the NHS
Back to work schemes, the jam that isn't, and apps on the NHS with Winifred Robinson.
Dodgy timber, French breathalyser law & the airline letting you 'meet' fellow passengers
How some big DIY chains may have inadvertently sold 'illegally' sourced wood.
05/03/2012
With Julian Worricker. The £300 gap between standard and online energy tariffs.
Call You and Yours: Do we get the press we deserve?
Listeners give their views on the tabloid press. Do we get the press coverage we deserve?
Are we breeding the wrong sorts of dogs?
Accidental landlords, breeding dogs, mobile homes, silver divorcees and DIY Tenants.
A shortage of eggs, GPs switching to cheaper drugs, and a new music plan for schools
A shortage of eggs, GPs switching to cheaper drugs, and a new music plan for schools.