This Way Up for Saturday 2 May 2009 This Way Up

Baked, crushed, dropped and frozen...Dan Simmons goes inside a secret mobile phone testing lab.

A key energy source for Romans, with nothing at all to do with the game of conkers! Alison Sandle sells chestnuts for a living.

22 different hiccups and a crying giant salamander. NPR's Louisa Lim pokes around the sound archive with a difference.

Spanish scientists think they might have found a cure to colony collapse disorder. Dennis van Engelsdorp weighs up the evidence.

Peter Griffin decodes the latest digital TV offerings. So what to choose? Freeview, My Sky or Tivo?

Pizza was a cheap and easy food for the poor that's now conquered the world. Carol Helstosky's written a book about its history.

This Way Up for Saturday 2 May 2009