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You and Yours: Pet persuaders, Anti-fraud delays, Bedtime hypnosis

Pet persuaders, Anti-fraud delays, Bedtime hypnosis

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Pet persuaders, Anti-fraud delays, Bedtime hypnosis

The pets following Grumpy Cat's lead - using social media to influence what we buy.

We look at the growing number of pets making money for their owners by using social media to influence what we buy.

First there was Grumpy Cat, now more pets are generating money for their owners by promoting products via social media.

The parents of a gambling addict who took his own life have launched a legal bid to hold the government liable for his death. Jack Ritchie was 24 when he died after he'd begun gambling on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals when he was at school.

The fraud prevention measures to make shopping online safer that look set to be delayed for up to two years.

And if you can't get your kids off to sleep, why bedtime stories read by a hypnotherapist might just do the trick...

Presenter: Winfred Robinson
Producer: Craig Henderson

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