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You and Yours: Discount cards, Ticket agents, Dining alone, Elves

Discount cards, Ticket agents, Dining alone, Elves

29/08/2014

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Discount cards, Ticket agents, Dining alone, Elves

How can a discount card end up costing you hundreds of pounds? With Peter White.

Consumer news with Peter White. How can a discount card end up costing you hundreds of pounds? Plus the online docu-soap about a group of disabled housemates going global.

One of the biggest Ticket agents says customers are being left vulnerabale because of risky selling practices.

How can a discount card end up costing you 100s of pounds? The pitfalls of signing up for discount schemes.

A table for one? The growth of the dining alone restaurant.

While most of us are still hoping for a final flurry from summer, some people have already got their minds firmly set on Christmas... we learn how to become one of Santa's little helpers

And the online docu-soap about a group of disabled housemates in Brighton is about to get a huge new audience. Thanks to the team behind the hit series Game of Thrones, The Specials - which we featured on You and Yours when it launched in 2009 has been picked up by the Oprah Winfrey Network - and will be screened in a potential eighty five million homes next weekend.

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