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Smashing Time
12:35 PM.We're off to Sarah's Smash Shack for some stress relief US-style. Audio
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Bees 1: Meet the beekeeper
12:10 PM.Meet our bee team for the first time, and This Way Up's bee mentor David Carleton visits Simon's place for a site inspection. Audio
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Stoned Age
1:55 PM.Archaeologists working on a small Caribbean island have found ancient ceramic bowls used to inhale hallucinogens. Audio
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Bits and Bytes
1:40 PM.Peter Griffin on the new mobile phone service called Black + White, Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system and Google books. Audio
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Rubber Bands
1:15 PM.Without rubber we wouldn't have tyres, condoms, balloons, and loads of other stuff. And we head to a rubber band factory. Audio
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Vertical Farms
12:40 PM.Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University reckons multi-storey farming could be the answer to the world's food woes. Audio
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Bees 2: Hive Location
12:20 PM.We're setting up a bee hive next to the Funky Chicken Farm. The plan's to get that honey flowing while at the same time spreading the love and getting a bit of pollination happening in the 'hood. Audio
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Smoke Alarms
12:15 PM.New research shows smoke alarms would be 7 times more likely to wake people up if they sounded different. Audio
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Intro
12:10 PM.What we've got coming up in the show this week. Audio
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Grub Street
1:45 PM.We meet some of the traders and shoppers at a modern-day food market. Audio
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Hungry Cities
1:15 PM.Carolyn Steel on how the challenges of producing and transporting food has shaped our urban areas. Audio
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Word of Mouth
12:50 PM.The advertising agency that can call on an army of 400,000 people to promote people's products. Audio
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Bits and Bytes
12:40 PM.Smartphones are shaking up the mobile market, dirty tech tricks at election time, and the US military's mining networking sites. Audio
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Engaged Tone
12:25 PM.A Canadian company reckons it can bypass all those irritating phone menus. Audio
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Inside Economics
12:15 PM.The latest prison currency in US jails. Not cigarettes or books of stamps...mackerel fillets in a pouch! Audio
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Dog Tucker
1:40 PM.With all those dog rolls, tins and biscuits in the shops how can you be sure that your pooch is enjoying a good diet? Audio
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Doggy DNA
1:35 PM.From giant Great Danes to tiny Chihuahuas, dogs are one of the few animal species with vastly differing sizes. But why? Audio
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Bits and Bytes
1:20 PM.Claims that New Zealanders are heavily involved in the world's email spamming industry and reaction to Telecom's 3G upgrade. Audio
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Foraging
12:40 PM.We go foraging for free food. Onion weed fritter with fennel and puha anyone? Audio
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Food Fight
12:40 PM.Hummus wars in the Middle East. Israel and Lebanon are squabbling over who invented this and other delicacies. Audio
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Landfill Mining
12:30 PM.After stuffing all our rubbish into landfills for years, mining these old tombs of waste could be the way forward. Audio
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Stat Attack
12:15 PM.Shopping with a statistician who works out what we're buying and how prices are changing over the years. Audio
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Pesto
1:45 PM.We meet a guy who grows basil in Fiji, flies it here, then grinds it up to make 4 tonnes of pesto every week. Audio
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Fishy Business
1:30 PM.Catch numbers and trout sizes are down at Lake Taupo, an area which sells itself as the trout-fishing capital of the world. Audio
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On Your Bike
1:20 PM.In Oakland, customised, pimped-out bicycles called "scraper bikes" are the latest craze. Audio