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You and Yours: Smart Motorways, Healthy Vouchers, Vet Shortages

01/11/2021

Smart Motorways, Healthy Vouchers, Vet Shortages

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Smart Motorways, Healthy Vouchers, Vet Shortages

Protesters will carry coffins to represent people who've been killed on smart motorways.

Protesters in London will carry coffins from the Houses of Parliament to the Department for Transport. The coffins represent people who've been killed on the new smart motorways.

This afternoon, protesters in London will carry coffins from the Houses of Parliament to the Department for Transport. The coffins represent people who've been killed on the new smart motorways - where the hard shoulder has been made into an extra traffic lane. 

If you had the choice to go to the ballet, or the football... which do you think would be a cheaper day out?
Recently a principal dancer at Royal Ballet Company has said that ballet offers better value for audiences than football.
We speak to one of companies principal dancers about their passion for the arts, and a football fan about his passion, for the beautiful game...

Food prices are going up, and for some that hits very hard when it comes to buying healthy food. One food charity says people who can get extra help from the NHS  for healthy food, aren't getting it, because the application forms to apply are too complicated. They're called "Healthy Start Vouchers", and even the department of health has admitted only 60 percent of people eligible do actually claim them... we look into why the uptake is low...

A new documentary released recently is celebrating the life and work of one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th Century, Mary Quant. We hear from Heather Tilbury Phillips - who worked for Mary Quant in the 70s and is an associate producer on the documentary... and fashion and textile designer Zandra Rhodes who knew Mary well. 

There's a shortage of appointments at vets in some areas. Listeners are getting in touch to tell us they're struggling to get a time slot.
We look into it why this is happening...

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