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The Stephen Jardine Programme: 21/07/2017

21/07/2017

BBC Radio Scotland - The Stephen Jardine Programme, 21/07/2017

Phone in today: are the school holidays just too long nowadays?

Are the school holidays just too long? Why viewers of Love Island are being driven mad by one contestant, and can we stop Scotland from being a nation of 'salad dodgers'?

PHONE IN:
We're now well into the School summer holidays and we want to know how you're coping. According to the latest holiday childcare cost survey from the Family and Childcare Trust, the cost of a week's holiday care at £124.22 per child, up by 4%. As parents juggle work and the cost and arrangements for childcare are the school summer holidays now just too long?

Also looking at:

MURDER ISLAND FOR SALE
Little Ross Island is up for sale off the Galloway coast but it holds a gruesome and dramatic past. We hear from the writer who stumbled upon the gruesome scene when just a schoolboy in 1960

WHO'S THE PROJECT MANAGER IN YOUR HOME?
Did you know there's a project manager living in every home? Feminists argue that it's nearly always the woman. We find out why doing your fair share of the chores still isn't enough

SALAD DODGERS
Scots spend less of their food budget than any other nation in the UK on fruit and veg - we look for radical new ways we can get consumers to spend more on the green stuff.

YOUR WEEK
Your chance to hear the audio diary of a typical week of one of our listeners. This week we talk to Marie Fagan, a cleaner who doesn't do offices or homes, just crime scenes. 

LEARN TO LOSE
Andy Murray says he learnt how to lose through childhood tears watching Hibs at Easter Road with his Grandad. We find out how we teach our kids to learn to lose

STAT CHAT
Statistician Dr Liberty Vittert cuts throught the headlines - Scotland's been sizzling in an "African Heatwave" but do the numbers really add up?

LIKE ISLAND
Viewers of Love Island are being driven to distraction by one contestant who managed to say "like" 76 times in just 3 minutes. We find out why we use these sort of phrases and what are their Scottish equivalent - Ken?

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