This Way Up for Saturday 4 October 2008 This Way Up

The history of the sturdy die-cast models that featured in many a post-war childhood.

A Japanese cartoon character's proving more influential than real living, breathing wine critics.

The world's first reality TV school's just opened in New York.

The lemon has to be the most versatile fruit in the fruit-bowl.

Tom Vanderbilt's been studying the way we drive and what it says about us.

More weird and wonderful inventions. Graffiti detectors, the footstep reader and a new lie detector.

This Way Up for Saturday 4 October 2008