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Have you cut back on your career to care?

Have you cut back on your career to care? Plus insomnia, multiple births and property surgery.

On the phone-in:

Carers UK says there is a "real social and economic imperative" for workplaces to be made "carer friendly".  According to the charity, the pressures of looking after an elderly, ill or disabled relative have made almost half a million people quit their jobs in the UK in the past two years.

Have you cut back on your career to care?

Also on the show

MULTIPLE BIRTHS 
Do we put women who have multiple births at an economic and emotional disadvantage?  Jennifer Edmonstone from Glasgow gave birth to twins in 2016 and the experience led her to write a petition to the government to consider the extra challenges having multiple births can put upon a family.  Helen Peck is Scottish Regional Co-ordinator for TAMBA.

PROPERTY 
We're looking through the keyhole in our property surgery - Brian Gilmour is joined by interior designer Emily Smoor - so if you need any tips on design or decor get in touch: 80295 on the text or 08085 929500

SAFER INTERNET DAY 
It's Safer Internet Day - so are your kids in control of their online lives?  A project at Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral Primary School in Motherwell is teaching kids about consent online.  We're joined by teacher Jacqueline McCulloch and pupils Sarah and Roark.  Fin Wycherley is a social media, digital and marketing expert.

FIT IN FIVE 
Tom Urie's here to tell us how to get Fit in Five, stay accountable, and keep up the New Year momentum.

ICONIC BUILDINGS 
A 100-day campaign has launched to raise £1.5million to save the Thomas Coats Church in Paisley.  Do we need to do more to protect Scotland's iconic buildings? 

INSOMNIA
Tracey Emin's latest exhibition includes 50 self-portraits, blown up in size and taken with her camera phone, during periods of "soul destroying" insomnia.  What's it like to suffer from chronic sleep deprivation?

CAN YOU NAME THE PLACE?
Clue 1: Today's place-name looks back to one of the top news stories of 2018.

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