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  • 575 - Leading Wedding Expert on Financial Consequences of Proposing on Valentines
    2026/02/13

    Rory McGowan sits down with Zoe Burke, former editor of You and Your Wedding and now Head of Brand at Bridebook about how couples can afford weddings in 2026, after the cost of the average wedding is now just over £25,000 in the UK.


    Around 15,000 couples propose on Valentines every year. Zoe, who has 15 years experience in the wedding industry now, talks about if people find that behaviour cringeworthy and how engaged couples can save money on the best day of their lives.

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    14 分
  • 574 - Cybersecurity Researcher: "The UK is the 6th most vulnerable country to data leaks"
    2026/02/11

    Rory McGowan is joined by Dr Luis Costa, a former UCL fellow and Cybersecurity researcher to talk about a new report published by VPN provider Surfshark revealing that the UK is the 6th most vulnerable country to data leaks.


    The two of them talk about how to protect your accounts from hackers, what kinds of accounts hackers target and the state of the UK's cyber defences, after 2025 was a big year for high-profile cyber attacks in the UK.

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    12 分
  • 573 - UK College Talks Apprenticeships in UK's Aviation Sector
    2026/02/11

    Rory McGowan talks to Julie Sullivan from Lincoln College and Hazel Bunting, a student there, to talk about the shortage of workers in the UK's aviation industry and how apprenticeships are filling those gaps.


    Lincolnshire is a prime location of the UK's aviation sector, housing a number of RAF bases alongside being the home of the iconic red arrows. Together they talk about the kinds of apprenticeships students can do, alongside Hazel's experience with the military and defence engineering she does as part of her course.

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    14 分
  • 572 - Lithuanian Surgeon tells the Other Side of People Escaping NHS Waiting Lists
    2026/01/30

    Rory McGowan talks to Dr. Aurimas Širka, an Orthopaedic Surgeon from Lithuania who's operated on British citizens, about what his surgery has seen in the last few years, in regards to people who have gone abroad to procedures that they would've had to wait years for on the NHS.


    Both of them talk about what the most popular procedures are, how to vet any abroad surgery and the consequences of being stuck with a bad hip or knee over the long term.


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    13 分
  • 571 - Female Entrepreneur Explains what "Extra Virgin" Olive Oil is
    2026/01/28

    Rory McGowan sits down with Sarah Vachon, an Olive Oil expert and the founder of Olive Oil producer Citizens of Soil, to talk about the state of the olive oil industry and what makes a bottle of olive oil "extra virgin".


    They discuss the health benefits and production different between sets of olive oils, and what consumers should know about the types of oils they have in the home and see on the shelves.

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    20 分
  • 570 - Burns Night Expert talks all things Robert Burns and Whisky
    2026/01/23

    Rory McGowan sits down with Burns Night and Whisky extraordinaire Matthew Cordiner from Aberfedly to talk about new research around Burns Night, and how many people across the UK are actually interested in celebrating it outside of Scotland.


    They talk about Robert Burns' poems, how to begin with a Burns Night celebration and what it's like being in the whisky business for over 18 years and working during a time with a heightened demand for Scotch Whisky.

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    20 分
  • 569 - Royal College of Radiologists Member on Increasing Insomnia Diagnosis
    2026/01/22

    Rory McGowan sits down with Dr Bruna Sanader Vukadinovic, a Specialist Associate Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and specialist at Private Psychiatry. They talk about an increase in insomnia diagnoses across the world, how sleeping issues could be down to a wide array of different conditions and how they can be treated.

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    10 分
  • 568 - WordPress Director on the Future of Websites
    2026/01/19

    Rory McGowan has a brief conversation with Mary Hubbard, the Executive Director at WordPress, about the 35th anniversary of the first website, and the future of websites on the internet.

    Together they talk about their importance in the face of growing large language models, why people still trust websites, and the origins of the first website, which came to be all the way back in 1990.

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    6 分