Smart Consumer Episodes Episode guide
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Finding Love After Bereavement
On your side in a world of scams, frauds and rip-offs. The best in consumer journalism.
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Faster Music and Avon
Research shows that music performances are getting faster and the changing face of Avon.
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Fake Food & The Fear of Finding Out
The criminals adulterating food at industrial scale and combating the fear of finding out
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Failed diets and body shaming - can you combine wellbeing and weight loss?
The Smart Consumer podcast with Frankie Haynes, Shahroo Izadi and Man V Fat.
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Extreme dog grooming and motorbike thefts
A look inside the world of extreme dog grooming
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Everything you need to know about tattoos
The Smart Consumer podcast with tattoo artist Lee Clements and YouTuber Lucie Parfitt.
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Everything you need to know about music festivals and how to survive them with Mark Radcliffe and some young people!
Festivals and how to survive them with Kevin Mousley and Mark Radcliffe
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Equal pay and junk food
Calling time on takeaways and the supermarket war on pay.
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Elderly drivers and Tourism
Could black-box technology (telematics) help older people to judge when to stop driving?
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Eco-friendly shopping and Xylitol
Warnings for dog owners about a sugar substitute that is toxic for dogs.
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Eating, Earning and Education
Overweight children and parents not spotting it, how to earn enough and university essays
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Eating in or dining out....what do you want for breakfast?
The Smart Consumer Podcast with Pete Wilson. Cereals or fry-ups - what wins at breakfast?
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Dumb 'smart' meters and plastic oceans
Why 2nd generation smart meters aren't that smart and the sea-bin that eats plastic
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Does it pay to take a gap year?
The Smart Consumer Podcast with Tara Holmes.
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Disability benefits and World Cup travel
Is the new benefit system "disastrous" and can you get to the football on the cheap?
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Delivery Drivers; Sex Education; Super Deluxe Box Sets
大象传媒 Radio 4's daily consumer programme with Winifred Robinson and Peter White.
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Deliveroo and Airport VAT
Just why do airport shops and pharmacy ask to see your boarding pass
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Decluttering with Marie Kondo and cassette tapes
How the Netflix series with Marie Kondo is inspiring you to to declutter.
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Dating Differently
Smart Consumer podcast with Simon Hoban
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Dangerous tyres and Dads looking like Lads
Mother ramps up pressure on the government over dangerous tyres on public vehicles
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Cutting down on the booze; Car hire complaints
Are you cutting down on how much alcohol you drink? Car hire complaints.
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Credit cards and how to avoid a cycle of debt
The Smart Consumer podcast with Jess Quayle and Iona Bain from the Young Money Blog.
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Creativity helping mental health; Football on Christmas Eve
Driving 250 miles for a speed awareness course. Fans choosing football or family at Xmas
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Cost of renting and the care home with toddlers
The cost of renting a one bedroom flat in London compared with other parts of the country
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Coronavirus: Advice for parents coping with the kids being at home now the schools are closing their doors.
Mike Young presents The Smart Consumer Podcast.
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Clickbait, Colouring-in and Maps
This week: just why is Clickbait so annoying, how an adult colouring in book shot to a...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, problem gambling and makeup for darker skin
ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on the NHS and the problem gamblers are being made VIPs.
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Christmas debt and the gift of time
How to avoid Christmas spending debt, plus David Cassidy and the gift of time.
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Children's Mental Health and Pledgefunding
We hear the arresting stories from two You and Yours listeners about the difficulties...
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Champing, Fake Tan
This week - how the churches conservation trust hope Champing - camping in churches -...