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You and Yours: 29/08/2008

29/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 29/08/2008

Consumer news and issues with Liz Barclay and Peter White.

Presented by Liz Barclay and Peter White.

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How can consumers cut monthly bills by haggling for the best price on the UK high street? Mike Duran reports.

A new website is allowing fans to invest financially as well as emotionally in hotly-tipped new artists and help them to record their first albums. But will such alternatives to the traditional record label really change the music industry?

Simon Calder talks about the fallout from the collapse of Zoom airlines.

A report on the burgeoning private space industry as Virgin Galactic gears up for its first flight tests into orbit this autumn. An eager trainee has signed up for one of the first flights.

BBC reporter Chris Jeavans discusses what she has learned at the end of her month-long experiment of living without plastic. Plus a report on new biodegradable plastic products.

Rogue scrap merchants are exploiting a legal loophole and dismantling more than an estimated one million cars every year in defiance of strict EU environmental rules. Anthony Baxter reports.

Clavell Tower in Dorset is opening its doors today, 25 metres from its original location. With Peter Pearce, Director of the Landmark Trust.

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