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This Way Up

This Way Up is a two-hour programme which explores the stories and issues around things we use and consume. Entertaining and informative, it includes global and local correspondents, mini features, product tests, studio discussions and a themed feature each week. Digital Life is also part of the show.

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In-car internet

Tech companies and US auto-makers are about to offer drivers internet access via their dashboards. Matt Richtel on the move that's angering safety advocates.

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Crow problem

NPR's Louisa Lim on the radical steps the city authorities in Tokyo are taking to eradicate the city's crow population.

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History of curry

Food historian Colleen Taylor Sen's just written a global history of curry.

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Golf cart city

David Kushner's just been to one of the world's biggest retirement villages in Florida to check out the residents' pimped out golf carts.

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Foraging: kawakawa

Foraging for more free food with Johanna Knox. This week, kawakawa. It comes from the pepper family, you can brush your teeth with it...it even stops smelly feet!

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Ethiopian land deal

The Ethiopian government's trying to lease millions of hectares of the country's agricultural land to overseas investors. Xan Rice reports.

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Cellphone photo classes

Phil Hibberd's offering the first mobile phone photography course in the UK.

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This Way Up - Makeover magic

Sonia Yee meets image consultant Trudi Bennet who tells her clients what clothes, colours and styles they should wear...and avoid!

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Sense of direction

Is technology like the in-car GPS unit destroying our natural sense of direction? Alex Hutchinson on Inuit hunters in the Arctic, London taxi drivers, and the team of Canadian neuroscientists working with people with absolutely no sense of direction.

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iPad review

Our technology correspondent Bill Thompson gives his assessment of Apple's new tablet computer, the iPad.

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Pinenuts

The ancient Romans and popes over the ages have loved pinenuts, but why are they so expensive? Alison Sandle explains.

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Japan: silver athletes and paper planes

An origami master's perfecting a paper plane that can break the 30 second flight barrier. Plus the over-65s taking over Japan's parks and playgrounds. Justin McCurry reports.

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Makeover magic

Sonia Yee meets image consultant Trudi Bennet who tells her clients what clothes, colours and styles they should wear...and avoid!

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Coin toss

You'd expect the odds of throwing heads or tails to be exactly 50:50 but they're not, according to statistics professor Susan Holmes.

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LA gang tour

Enterprising former gang members are offering the first ever gang tour of Los Angeles. We head along for with Madeleine Brand of NPR on the inaugural coach trip.

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Dynalifter

Bob Rist is the inventor of the Dynalifter: a helium-filled cross between an airship and a aeroplane.

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Has cooking made us human?

Anthropologist and primatologist Richard Wrangham reckons cooking our food has been the single most important factor in mankind's evolution, shaping the size of our brains, teeth and gut...and our inter-personal relationships.

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Brie vs Camembert

What's the difference between most New Zealand-produced camembert and brie? The answer might surprise you! With Jenna Russell, Brett Charlton and cheesemonger Martin Aspinwall.

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Tech review

Peter Griffin and Bill Thompson have their top tech picks of 2009 and what'll be big in 2010.

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iPlot: Compost

We finally make our compost pile! After a month spent gathering the right organic matter Colin Walker shows us how to build a killer compost heap from scratch.

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