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A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 07/03/2022 presented by Stephanie K, Lois P Sheryl A

Apopo is a charity that trains African giant pouched rats for humanitarian purposes, with a view to combating some of the challenges faced by countries in the developing world. Originally, they trained these much shunned rodents to sniff out unexploded landmines left over from wars in countries like Mozambique. More recently, their keen sense of sm…

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 06/26/2022 presented by Amy G.

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 06/19/2022 presented by Janet B.

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 06/12/2022 presented by Tamra C.

Did you end up in your dream job? Or did you end up pursuing a career quite intensely for some reason that eludes you? Perhaps the media representation of your profession had a part to play. Shrikanth Narayanan and colleagues from the University of Southern California created a dataset to analyse 4000 professions in the subtitles of over 136,000 mo…

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 06/05/2022 presented by Emily D.

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 05/29/2022 presented by Stephan G.

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 05/22/2022 presented by Chris B.

There's news of a huge rift in the world of video games... EA Sports, who made the first ever FIFA football game in 1993, have announced that they will no longer be licensing the FIFA name. Chris Berrow, from the Naked Gaming Podcast, has been finding out why and what the consequences might be... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the …

Now, I want you to cast your mind back to that first lockdown (if you can bear it) and to think about the ways you chose to fill all that new found free time. Perhaps, like the participants of a survey conducted by the Paris Brain Institute to learn more about the effects of the pandemic on creativity, you decided to sharpen your culinary skills, o…

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 05/15/2022 presented by Larry K

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 05/08/2022 presented by Kara L. CA

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 05/01/2022 presented by Melissa C.

Dingoes are native Australian dogs, although how and when they got to Australia isn't known. They were certainly already there by the time the first western explorers visited the continent, but fossil dingo remains go back only a few thousand years. So what is the relationship between dogs and dingoes, and the wolves they're both related to? Speaki…

Coffee prices are on the rise and the plant is said to decline by 60% before 2050, meaning new coffee alternatives are being considered in order to give us that caffeine hit. Harry Lewis speaks to Charlie Shaw from Atomo coffee to find out how they've been making our favourite beverage, without the use of coffee beans... Like this podcast? Please h…

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 04/24/2022 presented by Marcela M.

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 04/17/2022 presented by Barbara P.

A Vision for You Sunday Special Edition from 04/10/2022 presented by Dawn B.

If I asked you to give up one of your five senses, which one would you choose? Chances are, instead of giving up your ability to see or hear, your sense of smell would be in pole position for the chop. Scientists in Germany think we're under appreciative of smell in our evolution as a species, with new research from the Max Planck Institute explori…

The world has a huge problem with plastics. While they are a materials scientist's dream in terms of their properties, they are an environmentalist's worst nightmare, because they don't break down naturally and are very hard to recycle. But Athina Anastasaki, from ETH Zurich, has set herself the goal of making plastics that can be recycled more eas…